Posted on 05/04/2025 12:45:27 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
“These are not idle threats," Mark Carney of said President Donald Trump after his election victory last week. | .......................
President Donald Trump isn’t closing the door on using force to attempt to annex Greenland and Canada. But he said the prospect of attacking Ottawa appears “highly unlikely.”
Greenland on the other hand?
“I don’t rule it out,” Trump told host Kristen Welker in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything. No, not there. We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we’ll take care of, and we’ll cherish them, and all of that. But we need that for international security.”
Since his November election, the president has made no secret of his desire to acquire Greenland. “We need it. We have to have it,” he told a radio host in March. That same month, White House officials led by Vice President JD Vance visited a U.S. Space Force base on the island, which boasts significant mineral reserves and a strategic spot in the Arctic.
It’s been a similar story with Canada. The president has often mused about turning the country into a 51st state. Trump’s fixation was “a real thing,” warned former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“I don’t see it with Canada. I just don’t see it, I have to be honest with you,” Trump said of attacking the country in the NBC interview.
But the patriotic fervor Trump’s repeated attacks unleashed in the True North helped propel former banker Mark Carney and the previously beleaguered Liberals back into government for the fourth consecutive term — the first three were with Trudeau at the helm. Conservative candidate Pierre Poilievre not only saw his party lose a double-digit lead, he even lost his own seat in last week’s elections.
Since his November election, the president has made no secret of his desire to acquire Greenland. “We need it. We have to have it,” he told a radio host in March. That same month, White House officials led by Vice President JD Vance visited a U.S. Space Force base on the island, which boasts significant mineral reserves and a strategic spot in the Arctic.
It’s been a similar story with Canada. The president has often mused about turning the country into a 51st state. Trump’s fixation was “a real thing,” warned former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“I don’t see it with Canada. I just don’t see it, I have to be honest with you,” Trump said of attacking the country in the NBC interview.
But the patriotic fervor Trump’s repeated attacks unleashed in the True North helped propel former banker Mark Carney and the previously beleaguered Liberals back into government for the fourth consecutive term — the first three were with Trudeau at the helm. Conservative candidate Pierre Poilievre not only saw his party lose a double-digit lead, he even lost his own seat in last week’s elections.
Carney stresses Canadian strength in face of Trump tariffs
“These are not idle threats,” Carney of said Trump after his election victory last week. “President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, that will never, ever happen. But we also must recognize the reality that our world has fundamentally changed.”
The two are set to meet at the White House on Tuesday.
Trump downplayed the idea of using force on Canada with Welker. But he said he’d bring up a merger with Carney.
“I’ll always talk about that,” Trump said. “You know why? We subsidize Canada to the tune of $200 billion a year. We don’t need their cars. In fact, we don’t want their cars. We don’t need their energy. We don’t even want their energy. We have more than they do.”
Trump’s claim of a $200 billion subsidy, perhaps based in part on the U.S.-Canada trade deficit, appears firmly off base. But the president continues to cite the figure when discussing the two countries.
“And, if you look at our map, if you look at the geography — I’m a real estate guy at heart. When I look down at that without that artificial line that was drawn with a ruler many years ago,” Trump said. “Was just an artificial line, goes straight across. You don’t even realize. What a beautiful country it would be. It would be great.”
“Texas would have most certainly left and likely VA also.”
That is an interesting comment.
May we see your data?
Only an absolute idiot believes the US has any intention whatsoever to take Canada by force.
There's an Eskimo gap.
So your position is, that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are at odds with each other? The Constitution did away with the principles of the Declaration of Independence?
We know at the time of the end their are 10 kingdoms to empower Satan’s rule over the Earth. Some think it also could be related to technology oligarchs, like how Google, Meta and Twitter etc., empowered Obama.
“And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.” Revelation 17:12
We do not need another California, we do not need Canada.
We do not need another California, we do not need Canada.
We do not need another California, we do not need Canada.
We do not need another California, we do not need Canada.
We do not need another California, we do not need Canada.
We do not need another California, we do not need Canada.
We do not need another California, we do not need Canada.
We do not need another California, we do not need Canada.
We do not need another California, we do not need Canada.
We do not need another California, we do not need Canada.
We do not need another California, we do not need Canada.
We do not need another California, we do not need Canada.
"Taking out" Saddam was not a good thing.
Saddam was a tyrant who held terrorists and Islamists and borders in check. As did Qadaffi and Assad. We could deal with them. They had something to lose and were willing to bargain.
Pat Buchanan predicted that "taking out" Iraq would be breaking a hornet's nest. Saddam was the nest that kept the hornets in check. Now, they're angry and free.
Same with Assad and Qadaffi. Libya had been a secure border between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. Now it's open to migrant flooding into Europe.
Bush was wrong to "take out" Saddam -- who had nothing to do with 9/11. The Neocons and Mainstream Media lied.
Bush also gave us the Patriot Act, which Ron Paul warned us about.
I want to get rid of states, not add new ones.
No Iraq, I think it's likely that the Saudis would have continued to finance terrorism.
We’re getting close!
Where did you get this crazy idea that you have a clue?
I remember that Bush seemed quiet after the 2000 election. He seemed resigned to having lost.
Then his people shuttled him aside, and led the fight against election fraud. Cheney had more "fire in the belly" in November and December 2000 than did Bush.
I'm sure every Confederate state thought so.
These headlines from leftist media are ridiculous. And so Soviet
The U.S. does the same for Europe and Israel, both of which provide generous socialized medical care.
4-5 provinces are about like Wisconsin
Taint white Mississippi voters unfortunately
And I love Calgary
“So your position is, that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are at odds with each other? The Constitution did away with the principles of the Declaration of Independence?”
No.
In my view the Declaration of Independence provided for secession, styled as “the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it (existing government).”
The U.S. Constitution certainly contains nothing to denigrate the principle.
I agree... enough already! I don't want two more liberal Senators nor Congress critters. And I *definitely* don't want to absorb Canada's crappy "free" healthcare system with its insane waitlists.
One example of MANY: A Canadian friend of ours has a wife (who is probably 65-70). She has been waiting nearly a year for knee replacement surgery in the Montreal area. She is living in constant pain and her gait is getting worse while she "waits" for the government to approve the scheduling of her surgery.
I'm in that same age group and recently had knee replacement surgery. I simply chose a date, and it was done. NO waiting.
It's absolutely appalling what goes on in Canada and other countries with "free" government-run healthcare. Sounds like a third-world country to me. I thank God every day I was born in the United States of America.
Even if that's true ... so what?
You're saying we should kill innocent person A to scare guilty person B into behaving?
Stalin's NKVD would, on occasion, engage in random mass arrests of innocent people, just to keep the populace frightened.
Is that your idea of wise and just policy?
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