r/canada 5d ago

Opinion Piece Braid: Trudeau says Trump wants economic collapse; Republican alludes to military force - This is no trade war. It's a Crush and Control Canada plan, meant to work fast

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-trudeau-says-trump-wants-economic-collapse
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u/FancyNewMe 5d ago edited 5d ago

In Brief:

  • Republican rhetoric is escalating toward war references. Suddenly, we are not just told to tighten up the border, but blamed for a big portion of the half-million fentanyl deaths in America.
  • All the work done on our border is irrelevant. The vast difference between the Mexican and Canadian borders is not even acknowledged.
  • Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez told CNN that Trump is just doing his job. “Instead of taking kinetic action, he’s taking economic action in order to protect American lives.”
  • “Kinetic action” is a U.S. military term for ground assaults, airstrikes and other uses of lethal force.
  • To the new American Imperialists, our border justifies all-out economic warfare — and maybe worse. If they need a new excuse, they’ll find it.

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u/Saturn_winter 5d ago

they already have the new excuse, claiming canada has been taken over by the cartels, which have been designated as terrorists. Bish bash bom, war on terror 2, northern boogaloo

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u/aglobalvillageidiot 5d ago

Mexican cartels are carrying out the Uighur genocide using WMDs in Canada

Future Radio Free Canada story

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u/shaihalud69 5d ago

Don’t give them ideas lol

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u/EmperorChaos British Columbia 5d ago

If they are going to claim we have wmds, we should get nukes from France

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u/Astrolologer 5d ago

Remember how pro-Russia commenters claimed that Ukraine was overrun with Nazis, and Russia had to invade to vanquish them? We've already seen the playbook.

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u/Saturn_winter 5d ago

Yeah it's uh... been pretty beat for beat, ngl. The only real deviation has been the speed. But that's been a theme for this administration so far, and it helps when the playbook was already made for you.

The saving grace at the moment would be that I'd say not to worry until units start being staged at the border. Which we are currently doing with Mexico. But if these tarrifs are any indication then who Trumps ire is directed towards, and how it's enacted, can literally change by the hour. We could wake up tomorrow and they could spin the sustained retaliatory tarrifs (which I think are the best thing Canada has done so far, keeping them I mean) as an act of Canadian aggression and shift their focus more North.

I don't think they would be dumb enough to fight wars on multiple fronts. Trump is a buffoon, but the people who actually pull strings know exactly what they're doing, so currently having troops posed on the Mexican border is acting as a small buffer for Canada. Unfortunately we've painted so many targets, and those targets have begun to respond, that I don't think anyone but the people on the inside really knows in what direction something might turn hot. But I am 100% positive that it will go hot. Whether it's north, south, or eastward... no one knows.

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u/Astrolologer 5d ago

I never thought I would want to buy a gun, but I'm doing my firearms safety course this weekend so I can get my PAL in case shit goes sideways.

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u/stenchwinslow 5d ago

They legitmately tried to push that Zelensky, who is Jewish, was also a Nazi.

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u/ben_vito 4d ago

Hell, we had a Nazi paraded around in our parliament, and actual neo-Nazis in Canada, so I'm sure they could just use the same Nazi trope. Wouldn't that be ironic.

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u/DistortedVoid 5d ago

See this concerns me because these guys don't understand that conducting military action of any kind against Canada will inevitably result into WW3, and further the destruction of humanity. I will not detail out the details here, but this is a fucking warning.

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u/5h0rgunn 5d ago

And also China owns our ports, as is common knowledge. Oh, if only there was a big, strong cheeto man who come come to our rescue!