Trump again floats Canada joining the U.S. as the 51st state
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Russia, China, and North Korea are in an open alliance.
That’s a bit dramatic. They agreed to some deals, and wrote a press statement about how they’re BFFs. There’s still no way in hell Russia trusts either, and so vice verse, and NK/China relations are a whole weird thing. Ditto for India and China, which have made the impressive step of no longer openly beating each other with literal sticks over territory.
But yes, there are many, many powder kegs waiting to go off. The only question is if it could actually go hot, or it will stop at proxy wars, espionage and tradefare like the last time.
North Korea and Russia have a military alliance as North Korean soldiers were fighting in Ukraine with Russia under Russian control.
I agree that it is a press statement being BFFs, but China has been supporting Russia’s war efforts with Russia saying they would also support Chinese war efforts. It is definitely a weird alliance, and they most certainly do not trust each other, but they are clearly working together to be a counter to “Western” influence and are likely going to increase military, intelligence, and trade ties.
I hope that it stops at proxy wars, espionage, and tradefare. I just do not see it as likely given the climate.
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Or, maybe it’s not (just) distraction. Maybe he is seeding interest amongst the Canadian magatards. Maybe this is designed to give traction to Dani Smith and her ilk, to create division and internal strife.
Maybe Trump and the repubs have been following a playbook for all his Canada talk… maybe Putin’s playbook on Ukraine.
Yeah, it sounds too much like Russia and Crimea to me.
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I feel like they’d do better as territories. Even the more left leaning US states have a very different political culture that I wouldn’t want imported into Canada
I don’t know about you but as a lifelong Albertan my life would improve if my city had even a little bit of the culture of like, Seattle. I’m not guessing, I have been there and it would be a place I’d consider moving if they weren’t under fascist dictatorship keen on eradicating my people.
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No Name goose
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The information I have seen leads me to believe that something really fucking bad is about to happen, and WW3 is about to kick off for real.
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Canada and the US are still far apart on any “deal” that would see the tariffs go away, and Canadians likely are never going back even if the relationship thawed politically.
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Trump renamed the “Department of Defense”, to the “Department of War”
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Trump is currently sending troops to Portland. (I believe I read it was close to 1,800. Please correct me if wrong)
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Days later, Trump starts talking 51st state bullshit again.
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Let us not forget that Putin and Trump are friends, and any issues between them are 100% performative.
Meanwhile:
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China seems to be readying an attack on Taiwan.
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China has been observed in our Arctic waters.
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China is also buying up anything they can to get rights to our rare earth minerals.
Meanwhile:
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Russia has also been poking around the Arctic.
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Russia has been invading NATO airspace for some time now, specifically around where the leaders will gathered this week.
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Reports of Russia potentially opening up a NATO front in the war with Ukraine.
Meanwhile:
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Russia, China, and North Korea are in an open alliance.
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North Korea has been pushing some boundaries recently with South Korea.
I am missing a lot because I am just pulling from my memory (As an example the Saudi/Pakistan treaty that I didn’t read into enough) but it just looks like this is it. I am not trying to be an alarmist, but I don’t see these signals going any other way than directly to Global war.
China has been observed in our Arctic waters.
Categorically false. Everything else you said is propaganda speculation. South Korea, recently, has made closer relations with DPRK.
Anyway, you’re probably just very confused, but which side of WW3 do you want Canada to be on? No Trump and Russia will not be on same side.
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Hey USA. Your boy is on the front lawn in his diapers eating dog shit again. Maybe collect him before he gets away?
Sorry. He does that some times. We are working on it. Don’t let him inside. Just try to ignore him for now and he might go away.
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Not going to happen.
Give Canadians 96 hours notice, we are closing up shop, come across and get back home, and close the border. You don’t hold open borders against invaders.
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Or, maybe it’s not (just) distraction. Maybe he is seeding interest amongst the Canadian magatards. Maybe this is designed to give traction to Dani Smith and her ilk, to create division and internal strife.
Maybe Trump and the repubs have been following a playbook for all his Canada talk… maybe Putin’s playbook on Ukraine.
It is, it’s by design.
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Not going to happen.
Why does he think ALL of Canada should be a single state, anyway?
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China has been observed in our Arctic waters.
Categorically false. Everything else you said is propaganda speculation. South Korea, recently, has made closer relations with DPRK.
Anyway, you’re probably just very confused, but which side of WW3 do you want Canada to be on? No Trump and Russia will not be on same side.
As China explores the Arctic, Canada's military is preparing for confrontation
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China jet make ‘attack run’ & ‘simulated kill’ on UK warship sailing past Taiwan
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Happy reading!
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Not going to happen.
He’s not kidding. The whole “no rules of engagement” speech by Hegseth, Canada should be preparing a drone army by now, Ukraine style.
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Why does he think ALL of Canada should be a single state, anyway?
Because he doesn’t actually understand how any of this works.
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More than 3,000 kilometres north of the nation's capital, soldiers, ships and aircraft of Canada's Armed Forces gathered this week in one of the most remote areas of the country to answer one question: How would they board a foreign vessel that neither wanted to be seen, nor stopped.What if the crew of that ship was near sensitive military sites in the North? It may seem far-fetched. But smaller vessels run routinely through the north often with no transponders — largely invisible to other ships
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North Korean defectors have revealed the threats made by Pyongyang to keep soldiers in line
Yahoo News ()
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Rest of World News: South Korea's military fired warning shots at a North Korean merchant ship that crossed the disputed Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea early Frida
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Ulchi Freedom Shield will involve 21,000 soldiers in computer-simulated command post operations and field training.
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Congress created the War Department in 1789 to oversee the Army, Navy and Marines. It was changed to the Defense Department in 1949.
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Happy reading!
Just because its been written doesn’t mean its remotely true. “Evil China is interested in the Arctic” does not mean China has entered Canadian waters. They don’t need to to go to Europe. Nothing ever said about Russia has any motive of truth behind it. The drones BS over Denmark is obvious false flag. The ones that went to Poland came from Ukrainian airspace. The propaganda level is absurdly high, and your mind distorts it even stronger. Reading more cannot cure disinformation if you trust the sources.
But, again, in your mind whether rational or warped, you need to use Canadian forces to amplify US ambitions in ww3, don’t you? There is nothing that makes you understand the US side is the threat?
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Yet another distraction…
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Not going to happen.
I will never become a worthless piece of shit American.
Trump can fucking die already. America sucks. Fuck you America!
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Because he doesn’t actually understand how any of this works.
My guess is he thinks naming it just a single state conveys the message that Canada is inferior. It’s whatever enough to just clump all together.
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Yet another distraction…
“From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: Warfighting” -Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War September 30, 2025
One of these threats is not a distraction
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Not going to happen.
My boycott becomes stronger.
The great white north has existed for thousands of years. No American president will ever control this land.
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Not going to happen.
The precept behind this is that Canada needs the Golden dome to defend itself from Russia or China. What’s lost is that NORAD defends the US from Russia. We should be paid to protect the US from Russia.
If we choose to not demonically hate Russia and China, as a carbon copy of US dictated demonic policy, then there is zero need to defend ourselves from what what we do not threaten. A nuclear attack on Canada involves us crossing a dementia line, where even if we’re not the active threat to human countries, exterminating Canadians is viewed as a net global positive. Europe is far ahead of our dementia, and a legitimate threat to humanity in its demonic fascist evil, we would STFU quickly when US bases in Europe are nuked. We already do not need NORAD for defense of Canada. Our section of golden dome would only be to protect the US, and so if they want to build it, they MUST pay us to build it. They also need to start paying us for NORAD. Chinese missiles will not go through Artic to hit US, and again, the best defense is to stop being stupid vs humanity, and being part of same alliances as US.
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He’s not kidding. The whole “no rules of engagement” speech by Hegseth, Canada should be preparing a drone army by now, Ukraine style.
The Canadian government really should be funding courses on combat first aid, self-sufficiency, and other non-combat insurgency courses.
