Donald Trump is not joking about making Canada the 51st state, Justin Trudeau warns in hot mic comments

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

According to people on Lemmy, everything Trump does is a distraction. When he starts loading people into box cars and sticking them in ovens, it will still be a distraction.

[quill7513@slrpnk.net]

there's a reason France maintains a second, non-NATO, arsenal. there's also a reason Poland is buying what France is selling

[cyborganism@lemmy.ca]

My question is: when push comes to shove, what are you gonna do if Trump declares war on Canada?

[kyrgizion@lemmy.world]

Everything is still within timeframe for the Fallout timeline to emerge.

[arbiterxero@lemmy.world]

Oh good, I’m not the only one that caught that.

This feels like an intentional “oopsie”

I don’t think he’s necessarily wrong, and I still think that we need to vote with that in mind but…….

This is an intentional “oopsie”

[kyrgizion@lemmy.world]

Doubt there will be anything "hot"; it'll be threats of violence, being met with rational, thoughtful responses that will aim to save as many lives as possible.

[woodscientist@sh.itjust.works]

That's not enough. They should immediately negotiate an agreement with France to have French nuclear weapons stationed on Canadian soil. Have them there long enough until Canada can acquire their own domestic arsenal.

Canada needs the bomb. It sounds insane, but I am not joking. That is the obvious lesson of the Ukraine war. Canada is already an advanced near-nuclear state. They could have a domestic arsenal within a year or two if they wanted. And borrowing a few nukes from Paris in the meantime would provide cover to allow that.

And I say this as an American. I know Canadians may be loathe at the idea of a Canadian nuclear arsenal. But be realistic. It is the only way for Canada to ever be able to credibly deter a direct threat from the US. We can no longer be trusted.

Canada needs the bomb.

[sinningstromgald@lemmy.world]

Please do. Like, yesterday.

[banana@sh.itjust.works]

Rumours that the United States, in conjunction with Wile E. Coyote, are going to Nuke North Korea into Next Tuesday are GREATLY EXAGGERATED

[quill7513@slrpnk.net]

another American here: i'm gonna do my best to be a hindrance to my government. i fundamentally disagree with wars of expansionism

[rockslayer@lemmy.world]

I cannot stress enough how bad of an idea it would be to allow nuclear proliferation at this point

[andrewta@lemmy.world]

So the country that is partially responsible for the Geneva Conventions is the country we are going to try to annex?

Well… Canada remember - it’s never a war crime the first time.

[kandoh@reddthat.com]

Collapsing Empire tries to deny its decline with territorial expansion.

Won't work

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

You are way too late.

https://thebulletin.org/2024/07/trump-has-a-strategic-plan-for-the-country-gearing-up-for-nuclear-war/

[kandoh@reddthat.com]

The head of our government is a a European king.

[shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The fact that that your comment even makes a bit of sense is so completely fucked. Of course I don't speak for everybody but I think it's fair to say that most Canadians do not want to be a nuclear power. We do not want to hurt or threaten anyone, particularly our American brothers? When Pearl Harbour was attacked we declared war on Japan before America did ffs.. shit is fucked up down there

[kryptoniancodemonkey@lemmy.world]

People give the moron too much credit as a strategic manipulator. He's not that coy. If he says something, it is because he has no filter and he was genuinely thinking it. His people might talk him out of it (or distract him away from it after the fact), or his aging addled mind wanders off to other things, and only then will it have been a "masterful ploy" to misdirect, or rile up the libs, or gain compliance through threats, etc. Every stupid and evil thing he has said aloud, he meant wholeheartedly at that moment. The problem is he may or may not decide to have follow through on it later, so you don't know if you should react to it. But if he said something threatening, it is a threat. It isn't necessarily a threat that will be acted upon. But it absolutely is still a meaningful and serious threat.

[avidamoeba@lemmy.ca]

We don't have any nuclear weapons.

[blakenong@lemmings.world]

I’m pretty sure this is just the playbook now.

[someguy3@lemmy.world]

Yeah he thinks this is his way into the history books. And he's like Putin and other dictators that just look at land size and wants bigger (remember when he said Trump tower was now the tallest after 9/11?)