Trump is starting a trade war. If he wants to absorb Canada, what comes next will be worse

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1. Trade tensions between the United States and Canada have intensified following President Trump’s implementation of a 25% tariff on Canadian goods. Trump’s rhetoric about using “economic force” to compel Canada to become a U.S. state raises concerns about potential annexation, reflecting a historical mindset of American exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny. Analysts warn that Canada, currently facing economic and political vulnerabilities, could be seen as a target for U.S. coercion. The article emphasizes the need for Canada to effectively communicate the costs of annexation to U.S. lawmakers to counter the perception of Canadian weakness.

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3. This is not what a strong and stable empire does. This is what a dying empire does.

   Wild times ahead

4. As much as I disagree with all of his policies, i’m intrigued to see how the world will look in 4 years. I’m getting tired of the neo lib/conservative policy of the past 50 years. History is being made and we’re getting a front row seat.

5. Canada knows full well that he intends to make it prostrate, and to (further) vassalize it. He does not comprehend that patriotism exists outside the U.S. He has unified and fired up Canadian nationalism.

6. Canada standing alone shows how weak these international alliances are. Where is Britain whose monarch we pamper? The French? Anybody? This is a declaration of war and any attempt to annex us at this rate I hope becomes a bloody, costly affair for them. Americans who voted for this deserve what is coming, I wish all of them a happy winter.

7. Canada should immediately begin free trade negotiations with China as retaliation.

8. Crazy times we live in. Everything’s going from 0-100 ever since Jan 20th.

9. Trump seems to have a pure predatory instinct and no regard for friendship. I think he acts solely based off of his perception of the strength of others, whether people or countries. He seems to judge the power of an individual or a country and act based only off of that. If he sees weakness he preys upon it, if he sees strength he respects it. I don’t think morality or ties of friendship or alliance mean anything to him at all. It’s amazing that such a man has been democratically elected twice in “the world’s greatest democracy.”

10. Speaking from Canada, we would very much not like to be absorbed, please and thank you.

11. USA annexing canada…
    Things don’t happen in a few years, it’s been about twenty years that the US right has changed, with various characters and movements, the republicans have done nothing and been assimilated or even killed inside, and the democrats have done nothing at all.
    The result is this.
    Whether it is the end of the empire, which in any case becomes a South Americanised usa, or the birth of a reich this time that cannot be stopped, also because much of the western world is following the ongoing radicalisation, does not matter.
    Why?
    Because the world is turning to shit….
    The end of the Enlightenment and the return of feudalism in techno sauce or in Russia-style.
    I don’t know if without violence anything can change, historically it happens that way.

12. The U.S. is in decline as an empire with or without Trump. A sensible government would manage that decline in a way that left the U.S. a powerful, secure, and economically prosperous nation, albeit with a slight drop in standard of living, and with a government that was forced to at least somewhat balance the budget.

    Trump on the other hand is raging against the night, rather than a managed decline he’s going all out fascist in order to maintain the current position of the USA, but in reality he’s actually turning a managed decline into a collapse.

    Unfortunately his supporters don’t see that, and they won’t see that till it all falls to shit, and even then they will still try to blame it on anybody else but him.

13. We need CANZUK now, decrease the reliance on the US.

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