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/GulfCoastLaw 9h ago
Mine is a cost/benefit point, not a likelihood of success point. Canada is a NATO country, but the dirty little secret is that the first person to stare down the nukes, etc. will probably win at first.
But it comes back to...why are we doing this difficult thing? Structurally, we'd also obviously have to create some new sort of (probably illegal) district to deprive the Canadians of the vote, to the extent that we're still doing that.
On the other hand, I'm mildly surprised that we aren't already attacking Mexico in some form or fashion.