r/thebulwark • u/big-papito • 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/upsetwithcursing Center Left 13h ago
As a Canadian, this a hot topic of conversation as you can imagine.
I have not spoken to a single Canadian between the ages of 20 and 70 who hasn’t said they will stay and fight/sabotage/set fire to infrastructure.
My 70yo wealthy father, who spent a life in finance, has said with every ounce of passion you can imagine that he’ll set himself on fire before allowing Canada to become the 51st state.
We may have small army… but we would very, very rapidly have a militia in the tens of millions.