Summary
Donald Trump suggested using “economic force” to acquire Canada, citing trade deficits and national security benefits.
He also claimed the U.S. “subsidizes” Canada by up to $200 billion annually.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed the idea, saying, “there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell” Canada would join the U.S.
Meanwhile, U.S. President Joe Biden praised Trudeau’s leadership as he prepares to leave office amidst rising U.S.-Canada trade tensions and tariff threats under Trump.
The guy continues spewing bullshit and threatening every country in the world; if he keeps going, I won’t be surprised if he ends up in an “accident” in which no secret services agency was involved at all.
How can people actually not laugh in his face??
Because he has real political power.
Very limited, compared to his predecessors. Plus, he’s got a lot less money to invest/spend. Not my problem (I’m not a US citizen nor I live in the US) but his voters too should be able to separate his fuckery from his actual political actions (whatever they will be)
Very limited compared to his predecessors.
How do you figure that? The multi-decade expansion of executive powers coupled with the increasing politicization of the judicial system and the kowtowing of the entire right wing in the US as well as his clear predilection for overstepping the already increased power he’s legally given make the opposite true.
Long story short: a US President is not the world leader anymore, just a world leader, in a very close race, but still
Just think about the fact that this man dodged the draft and everyone knows it.
He has never served a day in his life. It used to be pretty much a requirement that a realistic presidential candidate was ex-military.
This shit is bonkers. None of this guys children are at any risk if he goes to war with Denmark, Mexico, and Canada.
Not that he really wants Greenland, or Canada. Its a distraction once again to steer the talking points away from whatever Russia and China are doing, or whatever climate catastrophe they’re working on.
Finally, this is only news to people reading left leaning sites. Fox news would gloss over this shit or give it 30 seconds of praise. By the time we get properly agitated about something, his fans have forgotten it ever happened.
People keep saying “How is this not the last straw for people”… He was reelected by people who don’t know about these things or don’t care.
Incoming: Fox Panel where three fake blond women talk about how they have been to Panama, Greenland and Canada and the people there were really rude and hate Americans even though every school there looked like it was built by America and the guy at the hotel reception said he is so sorry he loves America and please have America come and take it because they really suffer and America is the greatest.
Doesn’t seem wise,the US depended on Canada for 60% of its crude oil last year…
Yeah. But Canada was dumb enough to build pipelines into America instead of their own refineries or shipping, so they’re kind of stuck.
And Trudeau is resigning and while I don’t know much about his likely replacement…
He doesn’t seem great
Pipelines can be shut off. It’s a Putin-approved tactic.
And then Canada sells this unprocessed oil to…who exactly? Gotta get it to a coast if you can’t pipe it through the US and Canada is yuge
Oil doesn’t go off if you store it properly. Or don’t extract it in the first place. The fact it has been in the ground for millions of years is testament to that.
And, there’s that whole Putin thing I alluded to. Europe might well be interested in surplus oil.
Yeah, we should be using renewables, not fossil fuels, but a lot of the old infrastructure is still here. There’s bound to be some interest.
I do feel for the oil workers who might be affected by all this, though, which might be what you’re getting at.
Oil (EDIT: in the ground) is stored under a lot of pressure, oil wells cannot be shut off and restarted easily, some might never start again when being shut off, building refineries and pipelines takes years and storing large swaths of crude above ground is incredibly inefficient.
In the end you need a good processing and logistics to get the stuff on the market constantly.
Doesn’t he know Canada is basically a british colony? We have the King on all our coins/bills, if he wants to invade Canada, I think UK will say something about it. And if Canada separates, I’d rather join France than USA. Also we can burn the white house like in 1812.
Brave of you to assume he knows anything about Canada at all
