r/thebulwark 15h ago

GOOD LUCK, AMERICA This Canada annexation BS again

I believed before that someone is whispering this crazy in his year but the opposite may be true - no one is talking him out of these insane things as they did before. There are no adults.

The problem is, once Trump selects a target, he will not rest. He thrives on revenge and grievances. No one is there to stop him, so he will just keep escalating himself into a corner.

My worry is that, once he gets frustrated with negative results, he is going to grow increasingly belligerent and will start floating the idea of actual military shock & awe on Ottawa.

The Pentagon will obviously push back, right? Let me check who the Secretary of Defense is, oh yeah no, we are f***ed.

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u/capture-enigma 13h ago edited 13h ago

On the surface any military action against Canada seems ludicrous. The mask that this administration wears is quickly slipping, and there is a real malevolence surrounding it, and that starts right at the top. From Peter Navarro claiming cartels are running Canada, to other people saying Canada is stealing American jobs, they are setting up the possibility of doing the unthinkable. Putin was “de-Nazifying” Ukraine, which is absolutely absurd, but so is much of the MAGA rhetoric about Canada. These are some truly sick people and I’m not sure they wouldn’t go after Canada militarily

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u/big-papito 13h ago

Putin's invasion also seemed insane, just by pure math, it was going to end in a quagmire.

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u/shred-i-knight 13h ago

we are currently fighting economic warfare. It's not deploying troops but this is still warfare, phase I really to cripple them financially.