A top White House official has threatened to redraw the Canadian border amid Donald Trump’s ambition to turn the country in America’s “51st state”.
Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, is pushing US negotiators to discuss reworking the border with their Canadian counterparts, The Telegraph can reveal.
“Navarro recommended revising the Canada-US border, which is just crazy and dangerous,” a source close to negotiations told The Telegraph.
You mind drawing it a bit south actually
Maybe south of Seattle? Lol.
which had been paused for 30 days after Mr Trudeau agreed to take action against illegal migration and drug trafficking into the US.
Putting a bit of spin on it. Their plans were already in place before Trump came into office. This makes it seem like the US actually got a concession.
Also more fentanyl comes into Canada from the USA than out… That’s not even mentioning the guns
Yeah but some Canadian now has a fancy title of “Fentanyl Czar”… So it’s totally different
If there is an American/Canadian war, I’ll sign up on the side of the Canadians. - An American
This is why I don’t think it will ever happen.
US Miliary personnel have worked hand in hand with the Canadians half a century doing everything from joint ops to sharing bases. I think a lot of them would simply refuse to invade Canada without congress first declaring an official war, and congress wouldn’t do that because it would be horrifically unpopular with the US populace.
Congress is majority R, I wouldn’t put it past them.
Raise your hand if you believe this was all started because Putin told Trump it was a good idea.
Canada got serious about pursuing the money behind the freedom convoy and designated a bunch of those groups as domestic terrorists. By law Canada can go after everyone who funded them which, unsurprisingly, is largely Russia via right wing organizations in the US.
Sorry America, but you’ve gone Anakin Skywalker. You are now the bad guys.
America is Palpatine.
It just revealed that it was the sith lord all along.
Only just now!?
Well, maybe America was always the bad guy, but had (mostly) good people in control of checks and balances. Like, it was always Anakin, but had Obiwan keeping on eye on things.
But now Obiwan is dead and America is in the tower chopping up kids.
With a sharpie I presume?
This is actually fucking ridiculous
“ridiculous” is a rather generous way to express the absolute lunatic raving idiocy involved in even considering consolidating a sovereign nation (Canada, FFS??) into the fantastical ravings of a Napoleonic miserable little toddler’s colonialist dreams in search of some lasting legacy other than first felonious criminal that made it to occupant of the oval office.
🤦♀️ 🖕 🖕
From the Peter Navarro story linked:
According to Mr Navarro’s 2001 book, If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks, Vara was a captain in a reserve unit during the Gulf War as well as a doctoral student in economics at Harvard University in the US.
Are the freakonomics guys in the government yet?
Dubner and Leavitt are waaaay too qualified to be in this administration.
“We protect Canada, but it’s not fair. It’s not fair that they’re not paying their way, and if they had to pay their way they couldn’t exist,” he told reporters.
FUCK YOU
That’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works
This is, actually, how it works. See: every other border dispute.
Can’t arbitrarily redraw an international border without negotiation
The United Nations Charter prohibits the annexation of a state’s territory by another state through the use of force. Annexation is considered an act of aggression and a violation of international law
Funny thing about International Law. It only ever seems to apply when when someone has the will and the power to enforce it. Who has the power to enforce it if the US is the guilty party?
Sanctions
The US has a LOT of trading partners
Had
What’s the big deal? Borders aren’t real anyway
Maybe Canadians don’t want to be American? Maybe we’d prefer to stay a sovereign nation instead of joining the dumpster fire of a country to our south?
Man, even I don’t want to be American. But their imaginary lines make me one.
Yeah and we don’t want those imaginary lines to remove our free (at point of service for pedantics) healthcare and mostly sane politics
If we’re making up imaginary lines can you draw yours around me?
The big deal is the US increasingly setting the scene for open war, which would be a Bad Thing™️. Whether or not you believe in borders the people with tanks and nukes sure do
When a slight-of-hand trick is in progress, be sure to watch what the other hand is doing.
