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If they joined our Union, it would make a nice dividing line for the rest of Canada.
Their military might doesn't even match several US states.
Amazing to watch Canadians somehow manage to sprout more of a patriotic spine when Trump memes on them than they ever did for the last 15 years of their economy and culture being literally and metaphorically raped by infinity Indian UberEats drivers.
I've said it once I will say it again: Canadians have no positive identity construct, where they have defined themselves by what they are.
They have a negative identity vacuum where they have defined themselves by what they are not - and the only thing the Canadian knows for sure is that he is not American.
Rewind a bit. While Trump was gearing up his trade war machine, Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister, wasn’t just sitting in Ottawa twiddling his thumbs. He’d been quietly increasing Canada’s holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds—over $350 billion worth by early 2025, part of the $8.53 trillion foreign countries hold in U.S. debt. On the surface, it looked like a safe play, a hedge against economic chaos. But it wasn’t just defense. It was a loaded gun.
Carney didn’t stop there. He took his case to Europe. Not for photo ops, but for closed-door meetings with the EU’s heavy hitters—Germany, France, the Netherlands. Japan was in the room too, listening closely. The pitch was simple: if Trump went too far with tariffs, Canada wouldn’t just retaliate with duties on American cars or steel. It would start offloading those Treasury bonds. Not a fire sale—nothing so crude. A slow, steady bleed. A signal to the markets that the U.S. dollar’s perch wasn’t so secure.
if Trump went too far with tariffs, Canada wouldn’t just retaliate with duties on American cars or steel. It would start offloading those Treasury bonds.
Canada offloading the bonds at discount would also lower interest rates, which is another Trump goal.
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