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U.S. Annexing Canada (split fm Liberal Minority thread)
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Czech_pivo
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Brad Sallows
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I suppose they approve his deeds more than they disapprove of his misdeeds. There's no "this one thing" rule that applies to people.
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Trump's 51st State rhetoric will continue until he gets what he is looking for - a secure northern flank. A northern flank secured against conventional and hybrid threats from China and Russia (and China is his biggest concern)
China is his biggest concern.
Russia is a fading concern.
He is looking at the reverse of Kissinger's problem. Kissinger wanted to keep China out of the arms of a powerful Russia. Trump wants to keep Russia out of the arms of a powerful China.
Russia is a manageable threat in the arctic. Vlad inherited a weak and rusting Soviet Union and turned it into a weaker Russia. China sees an opening to exploit Russia's Siberian weakness to gain access to both Siberia and the Arctic Ocean. First as a joint-venture partner and, in future, as sole owner.
Thus, I believe, why he wants to keep Vlad in power and placated. And that may mean giving ground on Ukraine....
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Trump has another card to play. Europe/NATO/JEF. Trump can withdraw the US from the NATO commitment and the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO while, at the same time, getting Ukraine NATO-esque coverage by becoming part of JEF.
Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, UK, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania bottle up the Northern and Baltic Fleets and, together with the US and Canada, secure the Arctic. Those countries have already offered guarantees to Poland and Ukraine. And the UK has its own independent nuclear deterrent.
Those countries plus the Weimar Group* (I swear that the foreign affairs geeks spend their days trolling) are the people that Ukraine is expecting to put boots on the ground, aircraft in the skies and ships in the water to defend their sovereignty.
Instead of SHAPE and VII Corps on the Inter-German border, with the US President having to fret over exchanging the good people of Peoria for the good people of Bonn, the Europeans will be manning the border and the Brits and the French will be fretting tactical nuclear exchanges with Vlad.
And Trump takes one pace to the rear, puts some time and space into the Article 5 debates and can, conceivably, reserve his thunder for when Vlad gets serious and actually employs his tac nukes against Europe.
*Weimar Group+
Weimar+ Statement by Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the European External Action Service and the European Commission
Joint Statement by Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the European External Action Service and the European Commission.www.gov.uk
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I think Trump and Hesgeth are absolutely transparent in telling NATO, including Canada, that there is not enough money in the American kitty to manage both China in Asia and Russia in Europe. I also think that Russia is sufficiently reduced that Europe should be able to stabilize the situation indefinitely from its own resources. If they want to push Russia out of Crimea and risk a wider war then that would be up to them
And
Donald Trump's Russia Gamble: Could It Work?
The 2025 Munich Security Conference revealed a seismic shift in U.S. foreign policy, with Trump’s administration moving to reset relations with Russia, sidelining Europe and Ukraine. Is this a strategic play to counter China, or a gamble that could fracture NATO?
www.19fortyfive.com
GK .Dundas
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That's it, I'm dropping my gloves !
GK .Dundas
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Even my American friends who lean GOP are a bit weirded out by the obsession...
I'm not sure America or Canada could survive an actual annexation attempt. Bob and Sally from London are essentially indistinguishable from Joe and Jane from Detroit. I'm not sure Americans would put up with the increased security required to keep people, who are essentially indistinguishable from them, from doing bad things.
Canada has about the population of 2001 Iraq and Afghanistan combined, if even a small fraction of the population decides to go "Snow Taliban", America would be in for a brutal and pointless fight.
He is so lifelike though.
It’s almost as if we are living rent free in their heads…
Halifax Tar
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He’s making predictions about Tesla’s future sales volumes.
PrairieFella
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There's no difference. Cut the Democratic voters some slack but 70-something million voted for the lunatic and the over 100 million holier-than-thou fence riders chose not to vote. They deserve the international scorn.
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Canada might take some lessons from the deal making gong on in Ukraine right now related to critical minerals. It's a good insight onto the Trump government's approach...
www.bbc.com
Ukraine minerals deal: What we know so far
A Ukrainian official says Kyiv has agreed to the terms of a deal which would give the US access to mineral deposits.
www.bbc.com
Brad Sallows
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We've covered this ground in the context of Canadian elections, and the same general principles apply in the US. People have multitudes of reasons for casting votes "for" one thing, including the desire to cast votes "against" another. In politics there is nothing resembling the "completeness" property of real numbers: there are few - often only two - choices on a ballot.
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And ~170 million people either failed to vote, or voted for a known agent of chaos, probable agent of Russia, and reflexive autocrat or against a pair of candidates who were neither of those things.
Those 170 million are to blame for everything Trump and his gang inflict on the US, Canada, and the rest of the world. Whatever inane reason they might have for not voting Harris/Walz is meaningless in that context. Let them feel the hatred, disgust, and condemnation they have earned.
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Show your receipts or give it a rest. There are legitimate grievances all around, but that is tiresome especially after the Russia collusion hoax and last 8 years where the CIA/FBI have been perfectly positioned and politically enabled to prove that and have not.
I maintain if only Canadians would be as upset with their own compromised government as they are with mean Trump, we might actually get somewhere.
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100% agreed. Liberals love a distraction.
Got anything solid or just your opinion?
So they exercised their democratic right and your having a fit?
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