People also assumed the invasion of Ukraine would only take a few days.

You have nothing to win by thinking "as soon as they want to invade us, we will just give up, so let's just be an easy target"

The strategic adversary their fighters are likely to encounter, Russia, flies propeller-driven subsonic bombers for the most part. Any modern fighter is adequate to the task.

(it's beyond the scope of the current conversation but Canada's more pressing problem is having enough pilots and getting them enough flight hours)

Well, they need to do something. Kind of silly to ask them to ask the US to defend them against the US. It might be a cakewalk, but at least they’ll have tried to stand up to a wanna-be dictator, which is more than we’re doing.

Defend against whom?

they don't need to win against the US. they just need to be enough of a pain in the cloaca.

No way a well coordinated attack on Canada by US occurs without US fragmenting into tribal factions and fighting amongst themselves.

If we let it get that far and I am still around, will be gunning for my fellow Americans. Cause at that point, fuck them.

Even if I get got after one, will send a message to the rest not all their old neighbors are on their side.