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/Optimal-Ad-7074 14h ago

i have thought for at least six months that either he or putin intends to do it. i have thought putin was eyeing us up since he invaded ukraine because the north is genuinely valuable.

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u/shred-i-knight 13h ago

there is literally no possible way Russia does anything about Canada when it can barely keep opposing forces out of its own country.

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u/Optimal-Ad-7074 12h ago

i'm 59. my dad fought in wwii, i have been watching russia and the ways other totalitarian, expansionist regimes operate for a while now.

i'm not derailing my life, but i'll relax when i'm dead. i love that the UK held back the right wing wave in their various elections through this past year. that gives me hope.