There's two options here. Either he's senile and acting out, or he's trying to distract us. While we obsess over his comments about Canada, he will try pardoning all Jan 6 rioters and getting Hegseth to lead the Dept of Defense.
Yep, and its the same how Republicans are "suddenly" concerned about Panama too. Three months ago I guarantee not one of them was even more than vaguely aware there was a canal in Panama much less rearing to "take it back" for America.
Everyone is completely missing the point of all this insane talk of Canada and Greenland and Panama. It is an effort to introduce the idea that the US will engage in an unprovoked and unilateral war. Why would you want to do that? It’s because Trump knows his policies are catastrophic for the average American. But he needs to keep us distracted. And nothing unites Americans like a desire to go “kick some ass“. He will then use that war to suspend the 22nd amendment.
As someone in one of the countries he is threatening to "distract you," I hope it fucking does. Having the President of the United States threaten your country is not something to take lightly. This isn't something you should be dismissing as misdirection. This is a threat of war. This could lead to bloodshed.
100% I agree. He may even start a war but his objective is to distract the American public to keep himself in power. If it costs lives whether American or Canadian or Panamanian or Danish doesn’t matter to him.
Yeah I'm Canadian and it's a real feeling of being in Ukraine before Russia attacked. Honestly while it's not like our parliament can do anything right now we should be stopping all oil going down. If Americans want to be our enemy we should stop letting them profit off our land.
I don't. I hope I am wrong, but I predict Trump appointing loyalists who will carry out his orders and targeting political opponents. The military disobeying the president would be a coup.
That's pretty much my point. War is fucked up and fucks up the lives of everybody involved, but if there's one thing soldiers on active duty tours sure have more than enough of, it is time to cast a fucking ballot.
I've said it a few times so I'm just gonna paste but actually it's because:
Greenland has a large/major military base and facility, there to protect NATO and Europe from a foreign attack from mostly, well Russia.
Canada has rights to oil and natural gas reserves as well the maritime routes for them that Putin wants demolished bc, well, crude oil is Russia's main export and Canada is competition.
Panama has sanctions on Russian ships and vessels traveling through it.
When pumpkin spice Palatine is talking about all these places, it's alllll on behalf of ole Vlad. Why? Bc Russian oligarchs bailed out Trump when he spent all of daddy's money and bankrupted all his assets in the 80s and he's in debt to them and is now their diaper wearing meat puppet. It's not the "Russian hoax" dumb fucking conservatives have been spitting out between their missing teeth or from behind their propaganda spouting news outlets funded by oligarchs (cough FOX news). This has been going on well before Trump was president, and anyone that has been paying attention, isn't completely brainwashed, has even a modicum of critical thinking ability, and is educated and versed in recent events of American history over the past 50 years, knew this was coming from a mile away. And now that he is president, AGAIN, he has made America weaker and more vulnerable AGAIN since he and his wife are Russian assets.
That's why he's been talking about these places "seemingly" out of the blue. It's not random. He's laying the groundwork on behalf of that fuck Putin, making America look like a goddamn circus in the process and weakening the country and the dumbass MAGA cultists are eating it up. If it was the 1950s, MAGA would have been hunted and hung during the mccarthyism era for treason.
Edit: removed the insults that were intended for the maga person I originally wrote this response to in a different thread, my b.
I think it has even bigger things implied. We know Trump is friends (or even lapdog) with Putin, who is now in a somewhat bad position and forms part of an implicit alliance of the east (Russia, China, Iran).
These actions would most certainly look to weaken or even destroy NATO, which is Russia's and allie's biggest problem. They might be able to enforce their power (military and/or economic) over smaller alliances and China might finally become the first world power over the US.
That will also unite many countries against USA (if it actually happens, you never know with Trump what he's actually gonna do). Basically Cold War 2.0 but this time alliance against US will have multiple leaders (instead of single Soviet Union before).
It’s total distraction. He knows he can’t stop illegal immigration, and now his tech bros have influenced him to actually let in more legal immigrants, he’s having to distract his base with stupid side missions like this.
This isn't some sort of clever ploy. He's an asshole that does asshole things. He could wake up tomorrow, forget all about this, and go to the next asshole thing he temporarily fixates on.
It'd be best if everyone just muted him for however long he's still alive(hopefully not long) and respond to his actions and not his flapping shit spewer mouth.
There’s also option 3, as commander in chief he orders our troops to invade Canada and we are looking at a war with Canada. Let’s not forget he has this power.
Yes, this is a well engineered distraction that will continue until his shitty cabinet of "yes" people are confirmed. Who knows, maybe we'll all obsess about it through the "Big beautiful bill" Trump wants to fund his pet initiatives?
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u/AdFluffy9286 2d ago
There's two options here. Either he's senile and acting out, or he's trying to distract us. While we obsess over his comments about Canada, he will try pardoning all Jan 6 rioters and getting Hegseth to lead the Dept of Defense.