Lebensraum.

Is Canada supposed to be afraid of a country that couldn't defeat Vietnamese rice farmers and Afghan goatherders?

I think this is less a question of Canada being afraid of America and more a question of the US/Canadian working class being terrified of a bunch of hotheads feeding the rest of us into a military meatgrinder to assuage their bloated egos.

To paraphrase the legendary boxer Mohammad Ali when he refused enlistment to the Vietnam War, "I Ain't Got No Quarrel With Them Canadian Mounted Police".

.....is this a real thing...? Was this actually officially posted...?

I genuinely can't tell anymore.

Everything hurts.

I had to scroll through a lot of bullshit to find it, but it is real https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113934520197790682
- If we don’t want anything Canada has, why want them as a state? Why tariff their useless goods?
  
  So fucking stupid.
- ok thank you
  
  I appreciate your effort
Musk has also gone full on tin foil hat, accusing USAID of funding Bioweapons and Terrorism.

less like "Lebensraum" and more like an attempts at "Anschluss"

I've played enough Civilization to know that Aluminum is pretty important.

Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

im14andthisisdeep
- You'd like to think so. But a shocking number of grown ass adults won't get it.

FYI he is probably using the word subsidy when he really means the phrase 'trade deficit' which is less than $100b actually.

But he's an idiot buffoon with no business leading out on the economics of a small village not to mention the largest economy in the world.

Largest economy... for now
Money can be used to pay for goods and services 😳

Bold words coming from the prime minister of New South Saskatchewan

I would love it. Don't let us vote though, just bring us that healthcare and stuff.
You mean the gobernador of New Old New Mexico?

Fuck it. Close the borders. We good.

Let the queer folks come over first plz, we promise to be good Canadians.
- Of fucking course!! If you can get to Ontario and need help getting settled/staying here please DM me. All queer folx are welcome at my house and in my country!!

losing healthcare surely is worth all that !

Not to mention they actually pay the same amount in taxes. At least until higher incomes.

Do you want Canada to pivot to China? Because that's how you get Canada to pivot towards China... I think.

I'm just a dumb tropical dweller from the deep south, so I will not pretend to understand Canuck politics or the whims of their people, but history shows that even liberal, democratic nations sometimes turn to tyranical regimes for protection against bigger threats. See Finland during WW2.

Something, something, enemy of my enemy...

Do you want Canada to pivot to China?

President Xi, our people yearn for freedom.
Canada is delaying the bulk of their retaliatory tariffs for 3 weeks specifically to give Canadian companies to find alternative sources.

Canada's population is roughly 1/10 of the US. I also suspect that a decent portion of the deficit is due to things like Caterpillar manufacturing tractor tracks in Canada and improving to the US for assembly.

Canada will find alternatives or live without most things imported from the US and will likely not go back if the tariffs would be lifted.

No one wins a trade way, but I think Canada could be in a better position in the end. And it won't be because they become a state.
- The US soy farmers still haven't gotten all their customers back from Trumps last trade war. Once we find a new supplier, why go back to such an untrustworthy one as the US?
  
  iirc the US only has a deficit because they buy so much of our crude at a SUBSTANTIAL DISCOUNT, hence the only 10% tariff on crude.
  
  I am just glad we have an adult at the helm here, for the time being.

Let's all become vassal states of Orange land.

... Oh wait, yeah, hard pass.

I'm pretty sure that Canadians wouldn't mind closer ties to the Netherlands.
- As a Canadian, we should strongly consider Dutch unification.
  
  Schengen zone membership and EU passports yes please.
- Canadians wouldn't mind closer ties to most of the world. Right now the US and Israel are among those countries that most Canadians probably would like to move away from.
- During WW2 Canada sheltered the Dutch royal family and declared the hospital where princess Margriet was born to be Dutch soil. We could just declare the whole rest of country to be Dutch...
- Yes, 't Kikkerland can always do with more friends and allies, but technically 't Huis van Oranje became extinct several centuries ago 😇
  
  As for the Orange in charge at Canada's southern border, not so much.
Western countries are already vassals of the US.

Anschluss (2025 American edition)

I was thinking more August 1939 Poland.
- Yeah. The Anschluss-Thing is a little bit more complicated than just "Germany annexed another country because it wanted to".
  
  The German unification was just ~60 years beforehand and during this time it was a real possibility (or at least it was widely discussed) that all german speaking territories would join the newly formed nation, including the german speaking part of Austria-Hungary. The idea was again discussed after the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918. So the idea was still in the heads of the people.
  
  Additionally Austria had a strong pro-nazi movement, so a large part of the country just accepted the new leadership.
  
  In present day Canada there is no strong movement to join the US. There is a huge cultural divide. The last time the idea, that Canada should join the US, was seriously discussed over a hundred years ago. The last time the border moved was in 1908. So for basically everyone alive, the US-Canada-Border is just a fact of life.
Anchovious

Britain looking at the US going all rampant colonial again: "There's my boy".

that's just opening the border with extra steps

I think old Orangie wants to be your king, since the Queen is dead now. Just lie tell him," yeah we are the 51 state like Puerto Rico and your like the king." Bingo tariff problem solved. He will sit in his shit filled diaper happily ever after...