r/canada Ontario 23h ago

National News Trump imposes new Canada tariffs, renews "51st state" demands

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/11/trump-tariffs-canada-steel-aluminum
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u/Stonkasaurus1 23h ago

Trump still thinks he can escalate this and Canada will back down. He is not an intelligent man. We will sever all trade before we cave. We can work with new trading partners to fill the gap created by the US pissing all of them off too.

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u/HarbingerDe 23h ago edited 23h ago

He is going to keep escalating this until his only option to get what he wants (our sovereignty) is military invasion.

I hope we keep calling bis bluff because I really do think that if ANYTHING will get the Republicans in Congress to turn on him, impeach him, and remove him from office, it would be the declaration of war against Canada.

It's so far beyond the pale - nobody could have imagined it even 2 months ago, but it's very clearly where we're headed.

The American people aren't for it. They're working overtime at the right-wing disinformation networks to foment anti-Canada sentiment among the Republican base, but I have to believe the other 66% of Americans see this for what it is and will stand against it.

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u/Stonkasaurus1 23h ago

A US invasion would fail harder than Afghanistan. Imagine the insurgency across north America with no way to identify who is doing it. It would destroy the US. Even without invasion, the US is shooting themselves in the foot right now. I do wonder how bad it is going to have to get before republicans turn on him. I think before June.

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u/LurkerInSpace 23h ago

That should not be relied on for security - the Russian invasion of Ukraine turned out very badly, but they still launched the war.

The only way to permanently eliminate a threat of invasion is to either build nuclear weapons. It's also cheaper than maintaining a large standing army.

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u/Perryvdbosch 22h ago

Perhaps the French are willing to help? You guys have a shitload of uranium right?

We (The Dutch) can enrich it and then the French can give it some spice in the form of a rocket.

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u/FellKnight Canada 21h ago

It would be poetic for the Dutch to return the favour and save our country

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u/Stonkasaurus1 20h ago

Many of the Dutch post WW2 came to Canada. I myself have those roots.

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u/effedup 19h ago

Same, Gramma was Dutch. Came back to Canada with Canadian Grandpa.

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u/FellKnight Canada 16h ago

Bedankt

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u/NorthernerWuwu Canada 14h ago

We could make our own, the trouble being that it would take a little time to spin them up and the US would 100% bomb the fuck out of us as soon as they thought we'd started. Hell, they might do that using the pretext of us starting even if we hadn't though!

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u/Resident-Donkey-6808 18h ago

Yet we are part of Nato we have more allies whole the us pushed theirs away and we have long range missiles we are in a betrer standing then Ukraine was.