this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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Oh yus, it would be fucking wild lmao. It would certainly be a great opportunity for us, which is probably why they won't do it anyway.....
Ofc like you said, there's no way Canada is going to be able to oppose the US militarily, in the conventional way at least, but they might get some guerilla movements I hope?
Trump literally said that he will not use military force, but economic force, to annex Canada, and there is nothing Canada can do about it if the US really wants to.
What you’ll see is Canada folding under sanctions just like the Europeans did.
Am rly unsure how this will play out if he actually means it seriously as a policy and the other stewards of the empire go along with it
Cuz if they are no longer satisfied with the imperial-partner relationship with Canada and want actual de jure control over the country, which is quite rare in the neocolonial era, it would be even more overtly imperialistic than American involvement in Europe. The European states aren't US states at least lol. Maybe they could get Canada to do it through economic force (would this be a first? Annexation via sanctions I mean) but in the context of all the other shit he's talking about use of military force I don't rly think we should rule it out on the basis of him saying he won't use military force in this instance. All this shit seems reckless as hell from their perspective but maybe they do have some kind of new grand plan to stop American imperial decline, if we accept this is even possibly going to happen I don't think we can rule very much out at this point
I think full military engagement is extremely unlikely though ofc
Just imagining lib Canadians finding out really fast how it feels to be on the other side of imperialism and having to figure out mass politics lol
Critical support (all uncritical support is unprincipled) to the Albertan protracted people's war
. Nah hehe, tbh I donut know enough about Canadian politics to even begin to know what that would look like......
Exactly. The chance of Marines storming Alberta is like 0....and one has to assume some higher ups would be aware of all the implictions a US annexation of Canada would have. But who knows....