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I thought it was common knowledge already by that point. He wants Canada's resources and strategically advantageous geographical location.
The US government is broke. The spending and debt are out of control and their political system has become too dysfunctional to fix it intelligently. He hopes that annexing Canada and exploiting its resources unhindered by regulation will magically solve the problem.
Canadians, do not fall for it. Trump wants you to work in his mines.
He doesn't give the first damn about the United States balance sheet. He does about his own enrichment.
And his legacy. He wants to be remembered as some great dealmaking king that made deals to get America more states...
Listen, Canadians are very, very aware that we're Poland in 1936 right now.
We are literally begging Americans to wake the fuck up and realise this too, and hopefully stop this insanity before it gets that far.
We won't. We will bitch and moan and go to work while the military makes encroachments on your land.
I will be doing fun experiments, in Minecraft.
If there is one thing I can promise you, it's that you don't have to tell Canadians not to fall for it. Annexation is a non starter, there is literally no argument that could be given regardless of validity. The fact that any promises are obvious lies is wholly irrelevant.
That's the stupid part, we're not broke. We're not bogged down with debt, we own the debt, we're overspending on American business and economic output, just because we spend money and have national debt dosen't mean we are collapsing, our corporate stock market based economy needs infinite growth, so gov spending is going to ALSO always go up. That's really basic shit. He isn't fixing a desperate problem, he's looting the fucking country and hoping he gets it all done in time for a Russian airline loaded with gold to take him safely home.
She said Canada could avoid the tariffs by "becoming the 51st state"
utterly deranged
Obvious follow up question: if Canada becomes the 51st state, wouldn't that remove the barriers that is keeping all that imaginary fentanyl out of the US?
Do journalists even have brains any more?
I imagine they think the military occupation required will solve the problem.
βIs that how the US will be treating all of their allies from now on?β
Would have been an important follow up question.
Not that any of this is sensible or reasonable, but... why? Why is there any obsession at all with adding Canada as a state? Where did this idea even come from and for what purpose?
Why is there any obsession at all with adding Canada as a state?
Because Trump is trying to do to Canada what Putin is doing to Ukraine. Why? Because taking over a major food supply source is where the money will be at (because global warming is slowing expanding the hot zones north and southwards).
Add to that Canada's almost unlimited fresh water supply, lots of spare hydro electricity, a fair amount of rare earth minerals, a large oil source, and a huge portion of the Arctic region (that will soon be ice-free).
I also wouldn't be surprised if he just wanted to conquer an independent nation just for like chest-bumping, wanna-be strongman reasons.
Water, rare earth minerals, other natural resources, labor
And control of all this water, important strategically for Russia, I mean the USA. And Russia.
This one image really brings the whole situation into perspective.
Shhh! Don't spoil Trump's War On Christmas plan to drone strike Santa Claus!
Is... There still any ice in the Arctic?
Yes. It's not actually all blue water like it looks here. But there's less and less, and Russia has ice breakers that can deal with a certain amount of ice. Arctic shipping routes are becoming more useful and valuable as the Arctic warms.
Trump sees himself as an emperor. He wants to expand the empire and claim that as his legacy. Simple as that.
My presumption is that the goal is to establish one homogeneously plutocratic and oligarchic landmass, broken up only by the Bering Strait, running all the way from Florida to Eastern Europe.
Yanks have always been upset we didn't join them way back. That and they cannot let go of manifest destiny.
IDK, man. Indiana born and raised, and I've never in my life have I even heard about the notion or desire to have Canada merge with the US. It seemingly came out of nowhere and now a ton of idiots are acting like it's genius and even an absolutely imperative now.
But other expanding the US's land and people, and eliminating another sovereign state, what would even be different? Is the expansion the point itself, some weird compulsion to gain control of our neighbors? Or is there some other motivation? It's probably oil isnt it... it's always oil.
what would even be different?
So this sounds like ignorant American exceptionalism. Stuff that fucking noise.
YOU may not have heard it (and I can't link sources), but I have in modern media and from dipshits on the internet.
So this sounds like ignorant American exceptionalism. Stuff that fucking noise.
That is certainly not what I meant, nor is American Exceptionalism a sentiment I hold. I meant that we already enjoyed free trade between our countries before Trump. Already share resources back and forth. Already have closely related cultures and history. Already have military joint operations. Canada has been our closest ally for centuries. Becoming a state, then, doesn't seem like it would make a ton of differences that the average US citizen would want or even see on the whole. I can see where a narcissist like Trump wants to bully people, take control, be a dictator, etc. But it would make as much direct difference to my life as losing Iowa to the Portuguese would. Obviously if you are in Canada (or Iowa) and suddenly belong to a new county, that will make a make huge difference to you. But if you're a Tennessean tobacco farmer, why do you think it's really important that Canada joins the US? They certainly seem to all of the sudden. That is what I meant by "what would even be different?"
what would even be different?
The Republicans would immediately become unelectable, for starters, because you'd be adding a lot of population that skews much further left politically than any part of the US. And most of us would be extremely pissed off.
On our side, we'd be getting issues we really do not want with health care (and social services in general) and with gun control.
It would likely all end in guerilla warfare. Or worse. Overall, it's a bad deal for both sides.
I've been hearing Americans "joke" about Canada becoming the 51st state all my life. The fact that there's a country on the same land-mass as them, who's people largely speak the same language as them and who has a similar culture to them but doesn't want to be part of their country runs counter to the "Greatest Country in the World" propaganda that they've been indoctrinated with since childhood.
Most of the time, however, the politicians elected to high office are educated enough to know why annexing Canada would be a bad idea, but Trump's mentality never evolved beyond the schoolyard, and those are the ideas that he's bringing to the White House.
Under the hypothesis that Russia influences Trump, the point is to drive a wedge between the USA and all other Western democracies, the same way it attempts to create conflict between factions within the USA and other democratic nations.
Haven't they been saying that shit for like three weeks now?
Yeah, but they've been claiming it was just a joke.
We know better, of course, but that was what they were pretending.
She is as dumb as she looks
"President Musk needs ALL the rare minerals required for electronics"
It always feels like they have real reporters in the seats at these things, and a bunch of younger reporters asking softball scripted questions standing around.
Am I the only one that feels this way?
No use in being a us ally.
What else would a narcissistic megalomaniac want?
Putin wants US alliances to crumble. As his pawn, Trump will continue to sew chaos.
sew
sow
Hasn't Trump already said this? This isn't the press sec saying anything Orange Mussolini hasn't already been explicit about. It's one of their talking points.
Canada should coordinate with the Hague. Invite trump to Canada at the same time the ICC issues a warrant.