I had a conversation last week with a Canadian journalist about the culture war on American campuses. After we finished talking about that, she had one final question for me.
“What the hell is Trump thinking about Canada?”
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So, how did I answer my new Canadian friend? “Canada is Donald Trump’s Ukraine.”
Apparently, Trump agrees. On Friday, he made the comparison explicit. While talking to the press in the Oval Office, he once again called for Canada to become the 51st state and then compared Canada’s bargaining position to Ukraine’s. “The expression I use is some people don’t have the cards,” he said. “I used the expression about a week and a half ago” — referring to his infamous exchange with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, when he told Zelensky: “You’re not in a good position. You don’t have the cards right now.”
I did not mean that Trump is preparing to invade or use force against Canada. But he does intend to dominate Canada, to render it little more than a vassal of the United States, making it only nominally independent. In fact, you can’t fully understand Trump’s approach to Ukraine without understanding his view of Canada (or Mexico or Greenland or Panama) — and vice versa.
I’d like to see some polls asking how many Canadians would like to become American versus how many Americans would like to become Canadian.
My takeaway is that journalist just woke up and was napping for the last month.
For the last 8y more like
Canadians won’t give up a single square centimetre to that orange fash. We can give ourselves more then Agolf Shittler can ever try to take.
