• Kalothar@lemmy.ca
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      Sad yeehaw to my brothers

      Sorry, to those Canadians up there too

      This isn’t the America we thought we knew

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      Yeah he’s 100% going to invoke the insurrection act. Wonder how quick he’s gonna deputize the proud boys and 3%ers and so on?

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    I didn’t expect wartime authority to start until closer to the election cycle…

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      No, he’s going to declare immigrants are invading the country and thus it qualifies as a wartime emergency.

      He’s still going to invade Panama though. Right after he’s done with Mexico.

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        I don’t think he’ll invade Mexico. Same issue as Canada - the guerrilla resistance would be far too much for an occupying force the size of the US military. Panama is possible however.

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          You think the insurgency in a country that includes the Darien Gap is going to be easy mode?

          Regardless, none of this is based of likelihood of good outcomes. That’s not how Trump works. He wants to be seen as the President who is doing something. As long as Panama gracefully accepts that they’re our ally while Trump is in office he’ll leave them alone. Mexico is far more likely because there’s no short term resolution to Cartels and immigration. As opposed to the other options he likely has conservative politicians pressuring him to invade Mexico right now.

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      No, I’ve come up with a hypothesis that he wants Greenland and Canada to control the Northwest Passage which, along with the Panama Canal, would give him a stranglehold on trade in pretty much the entire western hemisphere.

      I bet the idea was planted by Putin gloating about how great global warming is going to be for Russia, including opening up the Arctic Ocean to shipping, and how it’s such a shame that Canada and Greenland are standing in the way of Trump having the same thing.

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        or maybe Great America means north america + south america. in exchange russia gets europe and china gets africa and australia. billions could die.

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      Not yet, but apparently the White House thinks the Panama Canal and Greenland are great excuses for war.

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        What’s Trump gonna do, fight Greenland, Canada, and Panama all at once? If he touches Greenland, he might get Europe involved. Same with Canada. Not to mention, the wars will probably be thought of as foolish and the public will oppose them. You might get soldiers going awol too. Canada would be a guerilla war in a cold ass place. You thought Iraq was bad? Not to mention, there would probably be Americans fighting on the Canadian side.

        I can’t even believe I’m talking about this. The world was mostly a peaceful place two months ago. Within a matter of weeks we’ve got Trump starting WW3.

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          Let’s just say that there a lot of things a creative and technically-minded body could do to make life an absolute fucking nightmare for the US government.