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On 1/26/26 3:14 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:01:03 -0800, dart200
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Not my responsibility either. Although I did vote for kammy. That is
> where my responsibility ends.
>
> It certainly does not seem a fair deal to sacrifice canadian
> sovereignty for the sake of removing a single villain from us
> politics.
it's not about on time u moron
>
> Because, you see, himbo is not the problem. The problem is that half
> the country sees nothing wrong with him, flocks to vote for him, loves
> whatever he says, every lie he tells.
>
> So, guess what, if himbo is gone, the line of people dying to be the
> next himbo will stretch around the block. And once the cement of
> canadian sovereignty is gone, what is going to prevent half (or
> enough) of us to vote and put the next jerk replacement in office.
do u even understand numbers or do u operate on feels alone?
>
> But if the deal were offered to remove all himboist thinking from the
> minds of americans permanently in exchange for canadian sovereignty, I
> would ask all my candadian friends to seriously consider it.
why do u think responsibility ends at the national border? because it's
convenient???
>
>> 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.
>>>>>
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