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How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious - Possum - Mar 16 2025
I know this isn't directly related to feminism but posting anyway because an annexation or occupation of Canada by the USA would obviously be catastrophic for Canadian women and girls. I see a lot of "lol fuck Tranada!" style rhetoric in radfem spaces so I'm worried about "feminist" talking points being used to justify attacks on Canadian sovereignty, our government is "woke" therefore the American military needs to mass rape and murder "save" Canadian women. There's a very real fear here that Trump is laying the groundwork for a future "special military operation" to "secure" or "help" Canada. Might make a longer post tomorrow or something with more articles/sources but this article is a good quick starting point, it's already a bit outdated though as it doesn't mention his most recent comments at the G7 meeting. He also has eyes on Greenland and Panama (right now imo Panama or Greenland is the most likely military target) which, again, would result in catastrophic violence toward innocent civilians of Greenland and Panama. And catastrophic violence toward innocent American civilians if Trump ends up triggering WW3 or an American civil war.
From the article:
Quote:He told Mr. Trudeau that he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid and that he wants to revise the boundary. He offered no further explanation.
The border treaty Mr. Trump referred to was established in 1908 and finalized the international boundary between Canada, then a British dominion, and the United States.
Mr. Trump also mentioned revisiting the sharing of lakes and rivers between the two nations, which is regulated by a number of treaties, a topic he’s expressed interest about in the past.
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Quote:While Mr. Trump’s remarks could all be bluster or a negotiating tactic to pressure Canada into concessions on trade or border security, the Canadian side no longer believes that to be so.
And the realization that the Trump administration was taking a closer and more aggressive look at the relationship, one that tracked with those threats of annexation, sank in during subsequent calls between top Trump officials and Canadian counterparts.
One such call was between Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick — who at the time had not yet been confirmed by the Senate — and Canada’s finance minister, Dominic LeBlanc. The two men had been communicating regularly since they had met at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s home and club in Florida, during Mr. Trudeau’s visit there in early December.
Mr. Lutnick called Mr. LeBlanc after the leaders had spoken on Feb. 3, and issued a devastating message, according to several people familiar with the call: Mr. Trump, he said, had come to realize that the relationship between the United States and Canada was governed by a slew of agreements and treaties that were easy to abandon.