This is why Donald Trump really wants to annex Canada
This is why Donald Trump really wants to annex Canada
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This is why Donald Trump really wants to annex Canada - The Logic
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Donald Trump and everyone who agrees with and enables him should go fuck themselves with a garden gnome.
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Donald Trump and every aspiring fascist need to be put in prison.
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Garden gnome? They can go fuck themselves with an umbrella
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I usually suggest a running belt sander. With.....60 grit. Nice and coarse.
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I absolutely don’t think this is true. Trump does not value minerals any more than he values factories or values the military being strong and protected.
Mostly, I think he fantasizes about Canada being a state because he is The Weak Strongman:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-strongman
Somewhere in Canada, he knows that there are people outside his orbit who can treat with him on a somewhat vaguely level playing field, and that’s intolerable to him because he is too feeble to accomplish anything on a level playing field, and so he needs to co-opt them somehow so he can start to tear them down. I think that’s what he cares about, not minerals.
It's the same hunting for narrative that usually happens.
He says something without meaningful context, and his base and others fill in the blanks in a race to make it profound. "He's actually playing 5D chess because..." And others ponder why he'd do something as reprehensible as trying to steal everything from an ally.
There's always boons to taking other people's shit; resources, access (NW Passage), infrastructure (energy), water, etc to give a couple examples.
Most of the time, it's because he's robbing someone else blind so needs another horror to enable and distract, and he got angry someone pointed out he's little more than a jerk.
Canada has a ton of untapped natural resources that he wants to irresponsibly harvest and sell for the fastest profit and growth. A lot of these resoucres are hard to access due to how northern they are but melting sea ice is making northern ports and shipping routes more feasible, increasing access to these remote resources. The times he refers to as "america being great" were times of heavy natural resource extractions and little to no environmental regulations. He is also eying Canada's vast fresh water supplies.
The Colorado river has customers purchasing more water than the river even has flowing in it. On top of this, very poor water regulation policy means farmers are encouraged to use as much water as they can rather than preserve water when possible because unused water may be taken off of next years allotment. Instead of reworking these policies and discouraging water intensive agriculture cash crops in the area, he'd rather just take Canada's water.
A big part of this may have started from his ego but strategically America absolutely stands to benefit economically, militarily, and food security wise from annexing Canada. Canadians cannot afford to take these threats lightly.
I can absolutely completely agree with you there. I'm just saying that Trump doesn't give even the slightest little bit of a shit about any of those things.
No idea what OP is saying, but there is historically 0 US investment that Canada has ever said no to. Canadian owned companies have never refused to sell to US, and Canada has been a perfectly good US slave in invoking national security BS against Chinese ownership of resources. US system of colonialism is through private oligarchy, and they have (had) full access to Canada.
So, the resource access argument is complete BS. The blocking Russian access to Arctic passage and resources is also 100% BS. Canadians are already fully programmed to hate Russia, and their only interest in our resources or passage would be as invited friends, sending us goods we happily paid for. Russia has a massive amount of their own undeveloped resources, closer to its/natural trade partner market, and trade with Europe or Africa has no need for Canadian waters access. Traitorous lying filth program you with any stupidity that Russia is a threat to Canada.
I would suggest that Trump does not want to annex Canada. He wants to destroy Canada in order to move manufacturing jobs to US under the false logic that Americans can do everything that Canadians can, and that a destroyed Canada would be willing and able to buy US goods. I doubt that a destroyed Canada would be given same (nice) treatment as east germany during reunification. But East German complaints existed.
Any explanation of Trump's extortion of Canada, has to be in the context of what the US is unable to get from Canada or get Canada to do. Because no such circumstances exist, it is irrational. Trump, relative to his first presidency, is fully in charge, and he can say complete stupid and illogical stuff without any filter, and the only response to save Canada is industrial policy and international partners to destroy the US economy.
I think it's more likely to be about the USA's strategic control of the Arctic as the ice melts and ships can operate more easily. Right now it's bordered by Russia, Scandinavia, Greenland, Canada and a little bit of the USA. Trump wants all of the Canadian and Greenland coastline to be the USA's, so Russia and the USA can effectively control the Arctic Ocean and its shipping routes, and threaten Europe from the north. This is something that's so simple even Trump would think of it when looking at a globe.
Other factors include resources, including fresh water, and Trump's ego and inability to relate to others except through more or less lame attempts at dominance and bullying. Also that Trudeau out-handshook him a couple of times.
It's not about defense, that's bullshit. When JD Vance went to Greenland for a photo op where did he go? To a military base. Which country is running that military base?
Before Trump, the US already had the ability to have as much military presence in the Arctic as they wanted, because of NATO. He's actually weakening US strength in the Arctic with all of this bullshit.
Why are we guessing at reasonable motives for this? He's already said why he wants to do this. He wants to change the map. He things having Canada and Greenland as part of US will make the map look nicer. First thing he did was to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. His motive is to redraw the map, but has no understanding of what that involved. Because he's an idiot that doesn't understand how anything works.
Look at his history, he doesn't really understand the concept of people consenting to what he wants. So he looks at the map and decides he wants it to look different and doesn't see any reason why that isn't going to happen. Because he doesn't understand the concept of needing Canada and Greenland to consent to these changes. Because he's and idiot... and a rapist.
I think you're rather optimistic bright there thinking that Trump ever looked at a globe, and I don't mean that jokingly
I'm also not trying to underestimate trumo, I really don't believe he is that smart. The people pushing and likely controlling him are, though