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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in a private meeting inadvertently broadcast via a hot mic, warned that Donald Trump is seriously considering annexing Canada to secure its critical mineral resources.

Speaking to business and labor leaders, Trudeau claimed Trump’s administration is keenly aware of Canada’s resource wealth and sees annexation as a means to control it.

The comments, cut off after staff realized they were audible, underscore growing economic and political tensions.

He also stressed the need to diversify trade, noting, “Geography means we’re always going to both benefit and be challenged by trade with the United States.”

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could this really happen?

No. Just like most of his agenda so far, he's dead serious and wants to do it, but he keeps finding out he's far too inept to pull it off.

Hitler was evil AF, but he was also smart and charismatic, and he knew how to fill a government with supervillains.

Maximum effort, trump might start amassing some military on the border. When that happens watch the other news for shit they're trying to sneak by.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope you're right. I fear you're not.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He couldn't even shut down USA aid. All he needed to do was have a semi-intelligent person walk into there and see what the consequences would be for shutting it down. He's consistently just playing checkers on a chess board and having to roll every move back.

He's going to piss a lot more people off and make a lot more problems but he does not have the competency in himself or his team to pull off an operation like that against an actual trained country.

Don't get me wrong, he will eventually shut a bunch of very important shit down probably inadvertently.

Maybe we'll lose a third of the population to an illness or something on his watch.

I'm a bit more worried overall that he's now going to permanently be in power than anything. I don't think the US has it in them too kick him to the curb, and I'm definitely not going to count on the military backing us in a coup.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But he did shut it down. The office was cordoned off, the flag and signage removed, administrative employees placed on leave and overseas employees ordered to return home. Leaving massive amounts of food and medicine to spoil on ships.

Yes, a judge has ordered a "pause" on the shutdown until a hearing takes place, but we haven't seen them go back to work so far, since it's Friday--we'll see what happens Monday. Point is he's going ahead and doing illegal things and daring someone to stop him. My concern is whether they'll ignore court orders. Because it's not like there's a way to enforce them other than he chooses to comply.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago

Do the military pledge their loyalty to the country or to the POTUS?