Bard spotting on Bluesky 03 February 2025

William B. Frickley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social):

If plans to annex Canada actually become military reality all US military officers who take their oaths seriously should use the opportunity to appreciate the beauty of nature that often passes us by, like wonderful flowers such as the Carnation.

Queerhawk 🏳️🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🛡 (@alwaysadorecats.bsky.social):

This is unthinkable, but here I am thinking it:

If Trump gave an order to invade Canada, he would be triggering NATO Article V against the United States itself. So the only constitutional response by those officers to such an order is to treat it as an immediate, irrevocable resignation from him.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Sentence 1: I fully agree.

Sentence 2: It's far more involved than that, and would precipitate a crisis

Queerhawk 🏳️🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🛡 (@alwaysadorecats.bsky.social):

Honestly it would be a crisis, not just precipitate one.

But strictly, logically - an armed attack on Canada is an armed attack on the US itself, as a whole, no matter the source of that attack. That would be levying war against the United States.

Queerhawk 🏳️🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🛡 (@alwaysadorecats.bsky.social):

Even if there were a legal fiction that he would technically be the President until formally impeached and convicted, a member of the chain of command knowingly ordering an attack on American troops and civilians is self-evidently removed from that chain of command.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I don't know exactly what would happen in the US legally, since NATO membership is by treaty, & therefore equivalent to a Constitutional amendment, but also "not self executing" in the language of the treaty, & US policy is sovereignty. I don't think there are playbooks for this scenario. —