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   On 1/26/26 1:53 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   > On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:48:07 -0800, dart200   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/26/26 5:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Is Canada the new Greenland?   
   >>> Trump backs off threatening Europe - and turns on Canada   
   >>> Julius Strauss   
   >>> Jan 26   
   >>   
   >> bruh adding canada to the US mix would be like adding another california   
   >> to the federal mix and throw the republicans out of power.   
   >   
   > No doubt.  But, you know, getting the r's out of power is not our job.   
      
   sure thing noah: all talk, no responsibility   
      
   keep up the good work! 👌   
      
   >   
   >> like i could support annexing canada based on that alone, and would love   
   >> it for magatards to fall for it again   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> It was, for many, the speech that stole the show at Davos last week.   
   >>>   
   >>> Volodymyr Zelensky’s words may have received the longest ovation.   
   >>> After all his country has been fighting a Russian invasion for almost   
   >>> four years.   
   >>>   
   >>> And Donald Trump’s address might have topped the billing. In the   
   >>> event, however, it turned out to be inchoate, ill-mannered, and dull.   
   >>>   
   >>> Instead it was Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, who   
   >>> electrified the room.   
   >>>   
   >>> For the first time a western leader had the backbone to stand up to   
   >>> Trump’s new world without rules and offer a competing vision for the   
   >>> future.   
   >>>   
   >>> True to his roots as a former central banker, Carney’s speech was   
   >>> hardly a rabble-rousing appeal to the masses.   
   >>>   
   >>> But when he spoke of how the US had caused a rupture in the world   
   >>> order and was resorting to economic blackmail and bullying there was a   
   >>> sense that finally someone was speaking truth to power.   
   >>>   
   >>> Carney’s message was relatively simple: the western world has been   
   >>> living a lie.   
   >>>   
   >>> It was time to accept that the US was no longer a force for good and   
   >>> for middle powers to band together and create an alternative centre of   
   >>> global economic heft.   
   >>>   
   >>> Carney’s speech, cleverly, didn’t even mention Trump. Nevertheless   
   >>> pushback was not long in coming. Trump announced that he was   
   >>> withdrawing an offer to Carney to join his newly-minted Board of   
   >>> Peace.   
   >>>   
   >>> He then said if Canada went ahead with a proposed trade deal with   
   >>> China it had just negotiated he would slap 100 percent tariffs on the   
   >>> country’s exports to the US.   
   >>>   
   >>> Needless to say, given that three quarters of all Canadian exports   
   >>> head across its southern border, such a move could devastate its   
   >>> economy.   
   >>>   
   >>> What next then? Will Canada ratify the Chinese deal? And, if so, will   
   >>> Trump push ahead with his threat?   
   >>>   
   >>> Perhaps. And perhaps.   
   >>>   
   >>> But there is an issue at stake that goes beyond Canada. Carney has   
   >>> effectively dared other leaders to abandon their fawning in the face   
   >>> of Trump’s aggression and scorn.   
   >>>   
   >>> He has also set out a vision that is intelligent, calibrated and   
   >>> pragmatic at a time when Trump is doubling down on the use of force   
   >>> and his own grandiosity.   
   >>>   
   >>> It is a fair wager that Trump is now preparing to kick Canada even   
   >>> harder.   
   >>>   
   >>> The former property developer is notoriously vindictive - he is using   
   >>> the US justice department to go after several of his political enemies   
   >>> at home.   
   >>>   
   >>> His domestic woes are multiplying. His polling numbers are heading   
   >>> ever downwards and ICE agents have just shot and killed another   
   >>> protestor in Minnesota.   
   >>>   
   >>> He may decide that a whopper of a distraction would be very welcome.   
   >>>   
   >>> Amid all the brouhaha over US threats to seize Greenland last week,   
   >>> many thousands of words were written about Trump’s thinking.   
   >>>   
   >>> The US president said he was worried about Arctic security. But the   
   >>> notion that Russian and Chinese military ships were cruising the polar   
   >>> waters atop the island was a fanciful one.   
   >>>   
   >>> In any case, under a 1951 treaty with Denmark the US already has the   
   >>> right to beef up its military presence in Greenland. All it has to do   
   >>> is keep Denmark informed.   
   >>>   
   >>> The real reasons for the Greenland gambit were almost certainly more   
   >>> personal.   
   >>>   
   >>> According to Michael Wolff, a Trump biographer and commentator, the   
   >>> whole furore was only ever intended to give the president what he most   
   >>> wants in life: a place in the spotlight, preferably with other world   
   >>> leaders kowtowing to him.   
   >>>   
   >>> One of his White House sources apparently told Wolff that Trump set   
   >>> fires not because he has any interest in the fires themselves but   
   >>> because he liked to watch the fire engines.   
   >>>   
   >>> The second possibility is that Trump really did intend to seize   
   >>> Greenland - perhaps because it would count as the biggest acquisition   
   >>> of US territory in more than a century - but backed down as the stock   
   >>> market began to fall.   
   >>>   
   >>> He recently said in an interview that he wanted Greenland because it   
   >>> was important psychologically. Asked whether it was important for the   
   >>> US or important for him, he replied “Important for me.”   
   >>>   
   >>> Trump’s true motivation may turn out to be extremely important for   
   >>> Canada.   
   >>>   
   >>> If, as some claim, he sees the price of American stocks as a measure   
   >>> of his own presidential virility, the fact that a move to seriously   
   >>> menace Canada would send the markets tumbling may be enough to stay   
   >>> his hand.   
   >>>   
   >>> Indeed, if that is the case, the world may have finally found a way to   
   >>> hit back against Trump. European and other countries, after all, hold   
   >>> trillions of dollars worth of American stock.   
   >>>   
   >>> But if it is fire engines that Trump is after threatening to send   
   >>> troops to the Canadian border would be a surefire way of generating a   
   >>> whole motorcade of them.   
   >>>   
   >>> Either way Ottawa is sufficiently worried that, according to The Globe   
   >>> and Mail, it has drawn up contingency plans for a US invasion.   
   >>>   
   >>> (In recognition of the mismatch between the two countries’ militaries   
   >>> any defence is reported to be structured around an insurgency campaign   
   >>> rather than going toe-to-toe with the US on the battlefield.)   
   >>>   
   >>> Of course what the US president should really be doing is attempting   
   >>> to bring down inflation, build a deeper bond with his allies, and   
   >>> forge a credible strategy for dealing with Russia and China.   
   >>>   
   >>> Instead in the last month he has decapitated Venezuela, sent an   
   >>> aircraft carrier towards Iran, and threatened to invade a Nato ally.   
   >>> With Carney now in his sights would anyone be surprised if the next   
      
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