I wish Canada would do something radical like withdraw their ambassador, reject U.S. dollars, or introduce some resolution in the U.N. that is anti-American to drive home the point. Trump is going to have to have his nose rubbed in it before he stops shitting on everything.
Trump's regime needs to burst into flames. From the whimper of Congress or the courts, it's apparently all going to have to fail before any phoenix rises.
To be sure, Canada is not our enemy, but if we put her on the back foot, she is correct to assess us as one. I can see France, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, and the Scandinavians deciding to revisit NATO if this nonsense continues for long. They can for a coalition that is not Ameri-centric and be a large enough block to still not be victim to Putin. Hell, India might even ally with Europe if the U.S. is not the swinging dick in the room.
If this is America in the 21st century, let it sink beneath the waves. We don't need foreign aggressors when we are at war with ourselves, perpetually.
The US poses an existential threat to our sovereignty, security, safety and well being.
And America and Americans are now much more widely regarded as not exactly enemies...but certainly not good or dependable friends either.
We saw the dangers to world order and peace if Trump was re-elected. We got a taste of it in his first term.
But for better or worse, we are inextricably bound to our neighbour through integrated industries, investments, families and a dwindling set of shared values.
We know that Trump is going to ruin NATO if he can't pull the US out or get all the other partner countries to only buy US munitions and equipment. He has tried already.
UN resolutions are meaningless because the UN itself is meaningless now. Only yesterday, Trump has pulled the US out of the Human Rights Commission. Next he will refuse to pay the US dues and remove the US from even more UN based initiatives.
Trump and President Musk are determined to pursue an isolationist, aggressive, Manifest Destiny policy.
Americans will do nothing to stop them. American politicians are doing nothing to stop them.
But a nihilist approach to 'burn it all down' means that evil has already won. And there's no magical rebirth from the ashes of a lost democracy. Instead, Americans and the world will adapt to a new era of corporate fascism and autocracy in the US. Canada and Greenland would fold within days to a military assault because we know that the US would not hesitate to bomb us to glass to steal the resources the oligarchs want under their control.
The real irony of all of this though?
The destruction of the consumer middle and lower classes will also be the destruction of the economy. And it will be the destruction of the world economy that may see the overthrow of the tyrants.