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.”
Remember it was 9/11, the Middle East felt emboldened to act against the West.
The occupation of Iraq was sloppy. We did a bad job with that.
But I'm not going to lose any sleep over taking out Saddam.
After two years, when her condition worsened, but still no Canadian dentists available, Canada paid to fly her to the U.S. for dental surgery. Paid for her hotel and airfare too.
I guess they do that when the medical condition gets bad enough. You suddenly qualify for a foreign trip.
Would have been a lot cheaper, and easier on her, to get her surgery two years earlier.
Not how I remember it.
As I remember it, after the Gulf War, Saddam was quiet and compliant.
That wasn't the case. You may have been thinking of Muammar Gaddafi.
“It seems pointless to talk about it, even in joking.”
But it was so much fun to call Trudeau a governor.
Having now re-read my post 53 I see why you ask the question.
To clarify: my post 53 was a harsh interpretation of what another poster seems to have advocated. It was not a statement of my beliefs.
I understand secession to have been valid in 1776 and 1860.
And more recently for the captive states held in the Soviet Union.
And in the future “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends (consent of the governed) . . .”
I regret introducing confusion into the conversation.
Canada is a protectorate of Gr. Brtitian, and it is not a soverign nation, it part of the commonwealth, under the King of England.
The best thing Trump can do is to shut down Harvard, and annex as much of Canada in a friendly takeover as possible. These two moves will both hamper British influence in the USA and also deprive the Crown of future finances.
England has been responsible for the assasination of every US president from their influence.
Since 1971 we have been doing the bidding of the British.
All the talk of special relationship is bunk. Britian is fellow Anglo nation, but they have hostile intelligence agencies who are one of our greatest challenges. Harvard plays into spreading their influence.
Starmer got hammered, Carney in Canada is former BOE chair, and the Aussies and NZ make up the British Commonwealth. All these nations are united under the British Crown.
The British Crown, in the form of the King, is America’s mortal enemy.
The DNC aligned itself with the Royality of EUrope, using governments to insulate a royal/elite class from the rule of the nation(s) itself. Globalism is a EUropean Royality thing that utilizes the government, the resources of a nation for the family’s own amusement and profits.
The Royal families used Socialism funded by the Marshal Plan to retail a govt in their home countries, then they used illegal immigration to the disenfranchisement of the native peoples of those nations. Their globalism piggybacked the LGBT decandence of the rotting ruling classes on top of the immigration to destroy political opposition and divide the native peoples so they could own them.
Make no mistake, Trump is dealing the British Problem.
He is also desirours of creating an America that can compete separately from Brics.
These are problems faced in the wake of the Bush I/II Obama Biden Uniparty tilt to Marxism and destruction of the people within the US as they became our new royal elites.
Trump needs to end the EU in Brussels and get the Royal families under control, and maybe the countries within Europe will expericence their own French Revolution and beheading of the heads of state in the shadows.
We also have Canadian friends who happen to be dual citizenship Canadian/American - both the husband and wife each had one parent from the US, one from Canada. They also bought some kind of private healthcare insurance in Canada so they didn't have to endure the horrific waitlists.
Whenever they couldn't get what they needed from Canada (where they live full-time) - they would drive from Montreal to the medical practices in New England (or elsewhere) to quickly get what they need - in a timely manner. They probably paid through the nose for medical care in the US, as they don't have insurance here, but they are fairly wealthy and I'm sure can afford it.
“The U.S. does the same for Europe and Israel, both of which provide generous socialized medical care.”
True. That is why President Trump is imposing tariffs - to claw back some of the money.
Right or wrong Israel is a special case and will continue to receive U.S. preferential treatment. At least I hope so.
Also, the USA was founded on the idea of Liberty, and indvidual rights. The CSA was founded on the right to deny others liberty.
“Now it’s open to migrant flooding into Europe.”
That was done intentionally. They wanted Europe flooded and the Nation State system broken for the EU to increase in power.
Same as that demonic Obama creature with his globalist friends, installed dementia carcass president, alphabet agencies and State Department sycophants who have all been engineering the same for North America.
Canada is happy to still be played in a manufactured ‘color revolution.’ America is waking up to their game.
“The CSA was founded on the right to deny others liberty.”
What are you talking about? Spell it out.
Slavery. The United States WAS NOT founded on Slavery. To make such an argument is tje one the left makes.
Yup
“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).”
Yes, when the government becomes the oppressor and tyrant. Where was the oppression and tyranny? Electing an anti-slavery president was none of that.
This one. Yup.
If you agree with it, you too cuz equating Trump to Bush is just stupid, like this post.
Thanks for the reply.
That Polliviere didn’t run well is a testament to his ineptness.
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Well there is that... and the fact that Trudeau let in 5 million immigrants over 10 years who mostly vote Liberal. Who overcomes that kind of head start in a country with population of 49 million?
I love all of Canada and the Canadian People, but I have nothing but contempt for wokism, and unfortunately many people in the eastern provinces have allowed themselves to be infected with it.
Wokism is nothing more than the decadence of Western Civilization. There is nothing honorable, virtuous, or good about it.
It will destroy Canada, the USA, Europe, and all the Western Nations if it is not halted and reversed.
It is a disease which will be fatal if it is not cured.
It will destroy Western Civilization as surely as decadence destroyed Greece of the Golden Age, the Roman Republic, and every other nation in history afflicted by decadence.
Unless the people of Western Civilization wake up and destroy wokism, i.e. the poison infection of decadence, it will destroy them.
I would love for the non-woke provinces to become part of the USA, but not the decadent provinces until the large number of woke people there come to their senses.
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