Several White House officials revealed to NBC News that President Donald Trump is growing increasingly “worried” over Canada regarding its ability to defend its borders, with one official saying that Trump’s concern stems from his “vision of ‘solidifying’ the Western Hemisphere,” the outlet reported Sunday.
I hear you, I disagree with you, and I am thankful PM Carney has been jet setting around the world shoring up other alliances and trading partnerships since day one knowing Plan A with the US was never going to work.
Which part do you disagree with?
The tone, the lack of realism based on facts considering how the US has been taking action (RE: Venezuela, Greenland, Iran), and the wall of text not easily read by anyone.
I especially disagree with working with anyone from the US to clean up their own backyard when we have our own problems, especially considering the US has never actually been our ally. This President is just openly talking about what has always been US intention. If you don’t believe me look what Biden did with the Tariffs imposed in the first Trump Presidency.
Hint: They weren’t dropped, and most were increased. (An example is softwood lumber which if memory serves went up 10% under the “Good guys”)
The US just likes to use us for resources, and troops to support their imperialism. The only reason we aren’t a smattering of states is because every time they Fuck around they find out, and it looks like we are fast approaching the find out phase once again.
They broke Venezuela with sanctions for 20 years before what they did to them this month. They’ve broken Iran’s economy with sanctions similarly, including the snapback sanctions recently reimposed by allies. The currency crisis that initiated the recent Iranian turmoil was precipitated by outside manipulation. Their main strategy is to break and divide targets from the outside before taking any action that risks their own assets. The trade war against Canada is part of the same kind of technique, as is support for Alberta secessionist movements, and for Maple MAGA more broadly. These are applications of the technique, but they have the capacity to escalate much more dramatically in extending that approach.
Also, you’re misinterpreting what I’m saying about Americans opposing fascism. I’m not saying Canadians should align with the Democrats. They are useless. The people who Canadians should support are the Americans actually going to the streets, organizing, and hopefully building towards real domestic resistance at scale, whether that be armed or peaceful. If they are squashed domestically, the US will be able to direct more resources outwardly. Also, should it come to direct conflict with the US, we should treat those people resisting fascism domestically down south as assets to support. The US already is doing this to us by treating Canadians sympathetic to MAGA and fascism as assets in undermining Canada.
I appreciate the “we’ve done it before, we’ll do it again, so FAFO” spirit, and I’m not disagreeing about being ready for physical invasion, but it’s not 1812 anymore. We don’t have the British Empire at our back, and war has evolved dramatically since then. Preparing in 2026 means preparing for something much more comprehensive and much more challenging than 1812.
Again, they can clean their own backyard. We have our own problems which you have cited regarding sympathetic Canadian assets.
If you want to say it is not 1812 and we don’t have British Empire support, you cannot ignore the fact that we have far more in way of support from other countries than we did back then.
In regards to sanctions, those have been in place long before Trump and he isn’t waiting around and taking it slow. He is openly threatening Sovereign nations, and Territories, with military force including NATO allies. He is not going to wait to break economies for 20 years. The real threat is force, and ignoring it to talk Economics is a waste of time.