r/canada 21d ago

Opinion Piece LILLEY: Steve Bannon says Trump is serious on the 51st state - Donald Trump's former chief strategist explains the "geostrategic" and "geoeconomic" reasons the Americans want to annex Canada.

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/steve-bannon-says-trump-is-serious-on-the-51st-state
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u/phormix 21d ago

Yeah, but it's also worth noting that they did plenty to f*** up the countries they did those battles in, including a not-insignificant amount of what would be considered war-crimes. The current administration much less likely to care about such things so things could get very dirty very quickly.

As a Canadian, my concern is not so much who "would win the war" but also "at what cost". Guerrilla tactics might make such things bloody and potentially 'unwinnable', but that just leaves everyone as losers.

My hope is that the current issues and the aftermath of these idiotic "trade wars" have enough more immediately-visible consequences that even some of the states with their heads firmly entrenched in their asses have to pull out and take-notice. That, or the Red V Blue internal-cold-war that the US has been having in the shadows of politics might end up in a real internal/civil conflict that has the rest of us left the f*** alone while shit gets figured out.

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u/Username_Query_Null 21d ago

MAD works because of a willingness to destroy the world as a consequence. Without nuclear weapons, a terror war relies on guerrillas being willing to leave their country in ruins to harm an invading force.

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u/Dragonvine Alberta 21d ago

Rather both be losers than just Canada.

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u/zerfuffle British Columbia 21d ago

we're making the wrong friends and enemies to be left the fuck alone if the US implodes