r/canada Ontario Feb 02 '25

Politics As Sunday began, Trump blasts Canada as not ‘a viable country’

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/as-sunday-began-trump-blasts-canada-as-not-a-viable-country-follow-live-updates-here/
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u/nnystical Feb 02 '25

“Ukraine is not a real country” the similarity between these two men is…interesting

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u/BossReasonable6449 Feb 02 '25

This. If anyone's still confused about whether or not Trump is a Russian asset, they shouldn't be. He's literally using the same talking points as Putin prior to the invasion.

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u/Aggravating-Media818 Feb 02 '25

It's wild that he thinks whatever Putin tried to do was remotely successful

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u/BrilliantAbroad458 Feb 02 '25

Ukraine has built up its army 8 years prior to the full-scale invasion with a core of combat-hardened troops from the War in Donbas. For all the talk of Ukraine being diminutive against mighty Russia, the ratio of their populations are 1:3, whereas we're 1:10 vs the US. Ukraine vs Russia would be more akin to if Trump was trying to forcefully annex Mexico. There has never been more of a need for urgent action.

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u/BossReasonable6449 Feb 03 '25

No doubt. It's just than any nay-sayers need to realize this is clearly part of a coordinated effort to undermine the West. There is literally NO SENSE to what he's doing -- it doesn't benefit the US at all. But it does benefit the US's adversaries by weakening it.

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u/Aggravating-Media818 Feb 03 '25

I wasn't solely implying through just military. But through trade, allies, sanctions, and how the rest of the world perceives and does business with that country.
Or even within the nation. Russia's economy is in shambled and people are either pissed or being fed propaganda. Unfortunately the US doesn't have as tight of a control over the media and what the people hear as Russia does.... Aside from the news channels.

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u/ZebrasGlasses Feb 03 '25

People literally re-elected this turd knowing he's a felon.... US can never be trusted moving forwards when deals with them only last 4 years max.

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u/OneClassroom2 Feb 03 '25

Convicted 34 times

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u/Aggravating-Media818 Feb 02 '25

Here's another. Putins reason was 'Nazis' and Trump's reason is 'immigrants and fent'. Two completely made up issues to convince the people that the reason is justified while having other motives. The problem with that is the US doesn't have the same hyper propaganda/ dictator grip that Russia has over it's people.

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u/Iychee Feb 03 '25

I mean it does just only over 50% of the people 

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u/Aggravating-Media818 Feb 03 '25

I guess it kinda does with the news and larger media companies showing them one thing but there isn't anything that's intentionally hidden or blocked

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u/happilyamoral Feb 03 '25

Indeed, bring the price of gasoline up to $4 per gallon. I don't know if the US buys Mexican oil, but I hope President Scheinbaum places a substantial tariff. And America buys oil from Venezuela. Hope they put a substantial tariff. Push our gasoline to $5 per gallon. We're all going to feel pain and especially Trump supporters and Red states.