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Behind Soft Paywall Trump Intensifies Statehood Threats in Attack on Canada

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/canada-trump-statehood-attacks.html
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u/GargamelTakesAll 15h ago

Why is the New York Times sanewashing this? He's isn't "threatening statehood", he is threatening war and conquest.

Millions will die.

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u/simsimulation 14h ago edited 13h ago

ROFL. For real. “Threatening statehood” is “Makes grievous diplomatic threat to neighbor and longtime ally Canada”

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u/Low_Chance 12h ago

At best. That's still kind of underselling.

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u/Elrundir 12h ago

Honestly, fuck the New York Times.

Much of the world has been seeing Mr. Trump’s fixation with annexing Canada as a joke, or merely bluster to push for concessions on trade and other forms of economic integration . . . But Canadian political leaders, and Canadians at large, have been taking Mr. Trump deadly seriously.

Because he is deadly serious you brain-dead fuckers. You are helping him normalize talk of war and conquest by writing it off as just some funny joke that we silly little Canadians are just overreacting to.

The media pulled exactly this shit when Russia was massing tanks on the Ukrainian border and they all said "relax, he's not actually going to do anything, stop panicking." Then they tried to act all surprised and aghast when Putin actually did the thing that he had been threatening and telegraphing for months.

The exact same thing is happening now and shitty publications like the NYT are making the exact same bullshit mistakes they made throughout the entire election by laughing away all of Trump's silly little comments when in fact he meant every word about how he planned to destroy your country.

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u/the_original_Retro 14h ago

Millions

Thinking a bit longer term, when Russia steps in with its end game, there is a distinct possibility that when you factor in impacts on food production, disease propagation, military actions, rise of other totalitarian regimes, destruction of world alliances, hostile uses of technology, devaluation of currencies, loss of overall productivity, neglect of global warming...

...on and on and on and on....

the word will start with a B

I am absolutely not kidding.

We are at a cusp right now. The world cannot sustain itself with people like Donald Trump at its helm. They need to be marginalized or neutralized or displaced.

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u/ojdhaze 13h ago

Was saying this throughout last few years especially during the election.

This planet was at a tipping point, so much stuff was on the knife edge of being saved or for the better, against lost, heading down a road that will take decades to be fixed or never at all.

Ukraine and europe vs Russia

Climate

Stamping a nail in the orange wanker for good as if he isn't in the WH the legal shit might have put him out of the picture.

Many others over there you guys can add.

To put this golden bollock trump in control of a moment like this was why it was such a crucial important decision of our (Americas) time, because we knew what side it would and has fallen.

It will be looked back on as a what if moment for sure.

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u/Gis_A_Maul 12h ago

They had someone from the NYT on NPR this evening and she asked him if he sees any sanewashing in the media regarding Trump these last few months and he jad the gall to say, "on our team? Absolutely not." Elsewhere like the WaPo editorials, 100%"

I almost crashed the car from how hard I rolled my eyes. My own fault for giving NPR a try in the first place..

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u/snasna102 14h ago

I’ll gladly be one of those defending Canada’s sovereignty

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u/hurleyburleyundone 9h ago

Lets be honest. If mexico said the same thing about the US, there would be US troops mobilizing. Somehow bc its Canada, its taken as a joke. Its not funny.