Canada should coordinate with the Hague. Invite trump to Canada at the same time the ICC issues a warrant.
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.
Yeah it was stated in the state of the union too
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.
She said Canada could avoid the tariffs by "becoming the 51st state"
utterly deranged
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.
Hitler did the same
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, out 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.
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.
Just absolutely let us know what we can do we are eager for anything
Good resources to start with:
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Search around for any kind of leftist resistance happening in your area, no matter how small. Get involved at the local level. It will make a difference.
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.
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...
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.
โIs that how the US will be treating all of their allies from now on?โ
Would have been an important follow up question.
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.
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.
This is more likely. These vast conspiracies like the one you replied to are giving him too much credit. The guys just not that well thought out.
Water, rare earth minerals, other natural resources, labor
And control of all this water, important strategically for Russia, I mean the USA. And Russia.
Trump sees himself as an emperor. He wants to expand the empire and claim that as his legacy. Simple as that.
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.
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.
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.
She is as dumb as she looks
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?
"President Musk needs ALL the rare minerals required for electronics"
No use in being a us ally.
Putin wants US alliances to crumble. As his pawn, Trump will continue to sew chaos.
What else would a narcissistic megalomaniac want?
What's going on Canada?
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