He doesn't give the first damn about the United States balance sheet. He does about his own enrichment.

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.

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.

utterly deranged

I imagine they think the military occupation required will solve the problem.

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).

Water, rare earth minerals, other natural resources, labor

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.

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.

Yeah, but they've been claiming it was just a joke.

We know better, of course, but that was what they were pretending.

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