Happy new year 2025…

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    This, Greenland… What is Trump’s obsession with trying to get more territory? Is he trying to start a war with someone? Does he think if the country is at war he can postpone the next election?

    Or is he just copying daddy Putin? Insisting Ukraine Canada wants to be part of Russia the US and that makes it okay to go “Liberate” Canada…

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      It’s quite simple. Resource extraction, and coloring more of the map in his country’s color.

      Russia’s reasons for invading Ukraine mostly boil down to the same, although their country is so fucked, they actually need to forcefully graft 40 million people onto their population against their will, just so Russia can survive another generation, Russia is a doomed country demographically, America isn’t, America is doing it just because. That’s Ultranationalism and Fascism for you. Making enemies to distract yourself from internal strife

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      They’re physically large territories so the map looks very impressive, especially with the Mercator projection.

      This is the man who redirected a hurricane with a sharpie. I don’t think there’s any more to it.

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      Putin’s his master and handler. If the United States throws the high ground away and starts gobbling up neighbouring nations, it becomes that much easier to say “the West does it too”.

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      @[email protected]

      Maybe Canada will give the bankers and stock traders more thievingsraum?

      In essence Trump is trolling, and people are falling for it. The distraction campaign is working.

      This ‘outrage’ trolling is being used as a starting point for constant recycling of political and economic talking points.

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        Even if he’s trolling, when you’re THE world military and economic superpower and you’re making such statements about a country’s sovereignty, you have to take this shit seriously. In addition, he’s clearly making fun of Canada for not being a military and economic superpower like them. And that’s a clear display of his psychopathic personality. Not sociopathic, but psychopathic. He seeks control over others. He thrives for it. He loves to make people run around and sit and beg. And when he can’t get what he wants, he lashes out at you.

        Psychopath.

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          Trolling and Joking about sovereignty became as funny as a heart attack after Feb 2022. Now when you do it, people are liable to give you Murder Eyes. for good reason. Sovereignty is non negotiable, Sovereignty, you kill to keep.