U.S. President Donald Trump’s increasingly bellicose stance on taking over Greenland and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro are combining to trigger questions and theories about what the White House may have in mind for Canada.
The Trump administration’s moves come on the heels of its vow to “reassert and enforce” American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere, spelled out officially in a new national security strategy.
Among those raising the alarm that it’s a possibility is Bob Rae, the former ambassador to the United Nations. In interviews with multiple media outlets this week, Rae said Canadians would be wrong to think their country is not “on the menu” for U.S. aggression.
The Trump administration "doesn’t take Canada’s sovereignty seriously,” he told the Globe and Mail on Tuesday.
Adam Gordon, a visiting fellow of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University, says there’s mounting evidence suggesting a real risk of the Trump administration using military coercion against Canada.
“We can’t take off the table anymore the idea that it is at least plausible that there would be some use of force or threat of use of force, and we need to be prepared for that,” Gordon told CBC News on Wednesday.
Why yes! Of course you are! And if you think this is exagerated, then you should rewatch what happened in Venezuela just a few days ago.
The child rapist is in charge of the biggest military and head of a failing empire that will try to remain relevant by any means necessary.
I was under the quiet assumption that America and Canada were already at war when the trade war began. A hostile act doesn’t have to start with boots and bombs for poor and innocent people to start dying.
We’ve been at war since they started buying and taking control of all our media, and interfering in our political process, while supporting and funding destabilizing movements like pipeline protests, logging protests (for and against, the outcome doesn’t matter, the divisiveness does), Alberta separatism and probably most infamously the “freedom convoy” that took over our capitol (basically an attempt at the Canadian version of the January 6th insurrection) and border crossing shutdowns.
The information shaping operations and the groundwork for invasion is already being laid. People think it starts when troops cross the border, it doesn’t. It starts long before that, and it is clearly well underway. But it is not a fait accompli, the whole point of operations like this is that they have plausible deniability. If the operations don’t go as quickly or successfully as they like, they can always just “nope” out and pretend they were never thinking about invading us, and there will never be a way to prove that they were.
But make no mistake, what’s happening in and around Canada right now is absolutely the prelude to an invasion or some sort of annexation. The good news is it’s not inevitable. We can stop it: by making sure it DOESN’T work as quickly or successfully as they are hoping it will. Elbows up, Canada. How we react to these invasions of our sovereignty will decide whether the troops do eventually cross our border, or not. Fight back, do not give in to their information warfare, and keep the true north strong and free. We are not the 51st state and we never will be. Stand up for Canada, and do everything you can to make us look like a really, really painful and distasteful target for invasion. They do not want the kind of trouble we are capable of giving them. They have other priorities to worry about and other fish to fry.
Bear attack logic applies: We don’t actually have to defend ourselves against the bear, we just have to be faster than the slowest guys at the campground, and let the US eat Venezuela while we dash towards Europe in search of some kind of tranquilizer darts, or in this case maybe, some nukes.
It’s reminiscent of russia’s salami tactics in Ukraine…