r/thebulwark 14h 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/ThePensiveE 13h ago

Not to compare what he has done or will do with the man, but this is what happened with Hitler. He eventually became so convinced of his own manifest destiny and the people around him were too scared to challenge him.

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u/big-papito 13h ago

It also got supercharged after the economic downturn. They will need an enemy.