Trump sagt, er würde „wirtschaftliche Gewalt“ einsetzen, um Kanada und die USA zusammenzuführen

Aggression from our supposed ally. Is there really any difference between Putin and Trump? All Americans should be ashamed of this behaviour.

I’ll say what I said on another post but…

I… don’t even know what we should do about this situation. Controversially, I think that politicians and Canadian media should all publicly just not acknowledge his comments like this. Play more hardball with diplomacy, but absolutely refuse to give him any satisfaction or reactions. He sees riling up Canada has a further extension of “Owning the Libs.” He will continue to say this stuff as long as we keep reporting it.

Unfortunately, too many people will see this strategy as not being a strong enough leader and bending over.. but those are also probably the same people who think you should yell back at a screaming toddler instead of ignoring them and refusing to give them the attention they are seeking.

But everyone gets a vote.

If only there was some way to naturally increase the economic power of a nation, like by increasing the population…

Trudeau obviously did too much, but there’s a reason every major party leader wants immigration higher than under Harper. It solves a ridiculously high number of problems for us in the long run

This sort of rhetoric from a foreign head of state is effectively soft-intimidation of our country from a foreign power. Dont be fooled by its clumsy and limp nature, as this bumbling attempt at influencing us is just as disgusting and shameful as any hard-attempt that would actually rile people up and get your attention.

Remember too that there is much more less overt and more sinister influence being spread across our border. It is very difficult for our government to even alert Canadians to its affect (or perhaps soon, easier to simply collude with it for their own political goals).

Why? Because we are so deeply intertwined with the United States that we are unable to effectively respond to it. It would be very dangerous for Canada to accuse the American government of any sort of undue influence over our politics and our polity except in the most gloved, feather-touch way, and even that would normally occur behind closed doors.

So, it’s something that we dont talk about much, but make no mistake that this is very dangerous and alarming. Imagine if Putin said this, or Xi Jinping, or Narendra Modi.

I wish we would ignore these comments. There is no realistic path to America annexing Canada. Even if it were possible, it would go directly against Trump’s own objectives and priorities. (Does he want to integrate the North American economies or shut out everyone but the U.S.? Pick a lane.)

Trump keeps saying this because he noticed it got a big reaction when he made a joke about it last year, and he likes it when people pay attention to him.

That, and his decaying brain functions on simple word associations, and he can only remember a single word association for any particular concept. Just like how whenever someone said “asylum” during the campaign, Trump responded “Hannibal Lector!” every time he hears the word “Canada” he now says “51st state!”

That’s it. There is no deeper meaning.

Crazy times. This is basically an explicit threat to our union from an ally. This is very extreme and we have no reasonable protocols to answer it if it materializes into something serious.

Remember the New World Order talk and fear mongering/bs in the 80s-90s? Well? Here it is. One world under the rule of a bunch of billionaire scabs.

I am in favour of the EU like thing, maybe with a common currency modeled after Sterling so we can make our own notes.