• Paragone@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I have told people repeatedly: he NEEDS Greenland, to sever Canada’s Atlantic trade & EU-lifeline, after annexing Canada.

    His having Alberta separatists as guests was evidence corroborating it.

    Alaska, navy+airforce, mainland, navy+airforce, Greenland, & he can sever ALL Canadian trade,

    & since ALL terrestrial international-comms from Canada go through the US, all of that can be severed in an hour, within the US.

    He’s got Canada in a guillotine, & he knows it.

    The only chance we’ve got, is that once he becomes dictator/king, he’ll be waging war on 3 fronts:

    • enforcing his annexation of Canada
    • Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance, de-naturalizing all non-Republicans, & either drafting them or having them ICE’d ( the incinerators they’ll be building after dictatorship-day will “take care” of many )
    • imperial-expansion throughout the rest of the Americas, Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, whom else has he threatened? Everybody, though… It’s total-Americas-conquest he wants, & nothing less will be “good enough”.

    Because of that, each of the fronts will have some chance.


    Context:

    There are 3 categories of game:

    • Positive-Sum game: Win-Win alliance
    • Zero-Sum game: competitive narcissism
    • Negative-Sum game: competitive nihilism

    Putin, Netanyahu, mass-shooters, etc, are all doing competitive-nihilism.

    Trump is, too.

    It isn’t that he wants his US to be “great” again, rather, it is that he wants to enforce that NOBODY be “great” after him: that there’s only wreckage & rubble left, & everybody after is broken.

    Same as with mass-shooters: the greater the destruction, the “higher the score”.


    Competitive nihilism is the most LETHALLY DANGEROUS category of game.

    A book on kenjutsu explained it:

    IF all your martial-arts training presumed that your opponents would always value their life, & would block any strike toward them…

    BUT your current actual opponent doesn’t care if you cut them, they only care that you die…

    THEN all your training-instinct is incorrect.

    They begin a strike toward you, & you put a strike toward them, to make them block, but … they don’t care … & you die, then.


    Canada’s investing in few, expensive self-propelled howitzers, recently, was idiocy: what we NEED is the M777’s replacement, ZILLIONS of them, for fighting Trump’s war on Canada later this year ( 2026 ).

    Our opportunity to save Canada’s life is being squandered.

    I think Canada’s going with the German submarines, which won’t be ready for … 2y longer than the Korean deal would have been … also was a mistake: we need those NOW, not years-later.

    As the photo-journalists said, last century: “the camera you’ve got on you, right when you need it, is worth infinitely more than the GOOD camera you left at home. ALWAYS have a camera on you.”

    The same is true, remapped to weapons, when Russia or the US is your neighbor & they begin war on you: immediate capability counts!

    What a sad/sick/aweful world we live in, to have to be saying these things, eh?

    Humbug.

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    • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      The number of Americans who hate Trump probably exceeds the number of Canadians, British, Danish, and Greenlanders who hate Trump combined.

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    US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth first unveiled the plan earlier this month, telling reporters: “Trump has drawn a new strategic map, from Greenland to the Gulf of America to the Panama Canal and its surrounding countries. At the Department of War we call this strategic map the Greater North America.”

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    Well with how great the war against Iran is going, I’m sure they will. And that’s with a foe all of us at least have distaste for. A war against Canada or the EU will likely see many Americans join the other side, and then these Chucklefucks will get to hang out like Benito