Canada would fold like a house of cards at the first sign of trouble. Let's go for it!
Posted on 05/04/2025 12:45:27 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
He trolled Trudeau perfectly.
That Polliviere didn’t run well is a testament to his ineptness. He was way ahead in the polls. Had he kept running on important issues for Canada, instead of doing a me too about Trump, he would have won.
That Canadians were too dense to understand what was good for their nation is, unfortunately, their fault entirely.
Your #1 is right on target. Trump needs to drop this nonsense.
By your logic, every Confederate Syaye had the right to Secede from the Confederacy.
It's called "flooding the zone."
They buried Trump and his agenda with lawfare, forcing him to play wack-a-mole.
He's burying them the same way so they have to play wack-a-mole too.
The U.S. defense budget is approaching one trillion dollars per year, some portion of which could fairly be imputed to protecting Canada from bad actors.
How much could be imputed to Canada's defense I don't know.
But I doubt Canada could have a standalone military capable of defeating determined foes - like Red China or Russia - for an expenditure of $137 billion annually.
Let's be honest. The U.S. keeps Canada safe and frees up Canadian budget to provide socialized medical care that Canadians love; except when they have to slip across the American border to obtain immediate healthcare for serious illness.
By your logic, any Southern Syate could have Seceded from the Confederacy. Texas absolutly would not have stayed.
Just give Alberta tactical nukes and invade Montreal.
I have always supported Trump but his lack of self-discipline and discretion is very costly. With his idle “musings,” he caused the conservatives in Australia and Canada to lose their very winnable races. Here in America, he should have won last November’s election by a huge margin, based upon Biden’s terrible administration. But he barely squeaked through, winning Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania by very small margins. No doubt he will utter more “musings” in the next year to cause us to lose the House.
Or getting zotted for having doubts about Romney? I’m still miffed about that, by the way.
They did have the right.
Moreover, every state in the original U.S. “perpetual union” had the right to secede which they soon did. Later they formed a new union which they liked better but they dropped the aspirational word “perpetual” from the new union's Constitution.
And some of those Confederate Syates WOULD have seded3d. So you would have had 10 different American Republics at war with eachothe.
It doesn't require 10,000 words. All you have to do is say: “Yes, the states that adopted the U.S. Constitution intended to overthrow the principles of the Declaration of Independence.”
I will. IMO he was much better than what “I invented the internet” Gore and “Swift Boat” Kerry would have been...maybe...
However the more I learn, the less I like.
I agree with you - we can get what we need on Greenland without any need to conquer it. Ditto for Canada. Of all Trumps' wrong-headed utterances, his opening this can of worms - the dream of a Great American Empire - is by far the worst. If not shut it would transmute into a leftist vision for an Orwellian imperial state spanning North America. And that in turn would most likely lead (after a period of decay and repression and simmering regional revolts) into a fragmentation. Not only Mexico and Quebec going their own way, but the West coast and New England breaking away from the heartland; Canadian maritime states turning loose from Ontario and western Canada. I can see the American Midwest turning into a debatable land, seeking trade routes alternately via alliances with the South (Mississipi river valley) and east (alliances with Quebec or New England as they vie for control of the St. Lawrence).
All of which is to say, it would shatter America rather than creating a unified imperial superstate. And just why freedom-loving Americans should want an imperial superstate Trump can't say. Ordinary folks can do without those grandoise dreams.
You don't know that.
I'm sure the King's men were saying in 1776: “If the states secede from Great Britain you will have 13 different American Republics at war with each other - and that will result in the end of the world.”
It didn't happen; mostly because the men who led the states that created the U.S. and Confederate governments were much smarter than we give them credit.
Yes! Alberta! The 51st State!
We don’t need another Puerto Rico ... let the British keep their lackey state.
Texas would have most certainly left and likely VA also.
Canada would fold like a house of cards at the first sign of trouble. Let's go for it!
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