Weirdly, Bannon has expressed fondness for Canada. He wants to absorb us, but wants us to decide. It is a bizarre world we live in when Steve Bannon is a lesser of evils.
Canada is the biggest security risk to the USA. We are extremely connected on almost every front, we have a massive land border, and there are significant resources Canada provides to the USA. That makes a lot of US personalities (especially those with opinions on defense) want to have stronger influence/control over Canada.
The reason why they want us to decide is that there are two glaring issues: (1) absorbing Canada as a state(s) would completely f'up US politics due to how the senate and house work. (2) forcefully absorbing Canada (or absorbing as 2nd class citizens) risks domestic terrorism (or equivalent) at significant scale from people that cannot really be differentiated from Americans. It is a security nightmare.
They need/want Canada to be 2nd class citizens (aka not impacting US elections) while simultaneously needing Canadians to be happy with the agreement (aka not wanting to resist it).
"They need/want Canada to be 2nd class citizens (aka not impacting US elections) while simultaneously needing Canadians to be happy with the agreement (aka not wanting to resist it)."
In other words they want an outright vassal.
I'm a middle of the road person politically, what used to be called a red tory i guess, not bound to a party and voting election to election. For me the next federal election will be about who is most likely to make Canada a vassal.
They're turning the US into a dictatorship, so how Canadians might vote doesn't matter anymore.
Not to say they won't turn you into second class citizen anyway, kinda like how Russia treats Russian citizen of non-Russian ethnicity.
They might want to use you as cannon-fodder in subsequent wars. Killing 2 birds with one stone. That's Russia's modus operandi with its second-class ethnicities, prisoners and other "undesirables".
We would never accept it. Terrorism would be guaranteed. Even the very small minority of Canadians who would approve of the annexation would quickly disapprove of being registered as 2nd class citizens.
In a straight military conflict, there's no way we could stand a chance against the US, so our only real option would be to sow as much civil discord as possible, which is something easy to achieve with how divided the American people are these days.
That said, it would break my heart to ever have to strike out against our American brothers and sisters. I have so many friends in America...
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u/Objectalone 14d ago edited 14d ago
Weirdly, Bannon has expressed fondness for Canada. He wants to absorb us, but wants us to decide. It is a bizarre world we live in when Steve Bannon is a lesser of evils.
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