Trump considering "annexing" Canada!

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A report on a recent meeting between Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, by a WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, someone who was present in the room quoted below...
From a WH Reporter,
“ I’ve covered a lot of Donald Trump press conferences over the years. I’ve seen him lie, deflect, and embarrass himself in countless ways. But what I just witnessed in the Oval Office may have been the most off-the-rails, unhinged display yet.
Trump sat down with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte — a serious figure there to talk about security and alliance unity — but Trump wasn’t interested in that. No, Trump used the opportunity to fantasize about annexing Canada. He actually said, “Canada only works as a state,” and gushed about how the U.S. would look on a map if we just erased the border and took Canada as our own. This wasn’t satire. This wasn’t a joke. This was the president rambling about absorbing another sovereign nation — while the NATO secretary general sat there watching this clown show unfold.
And it didn’t stop there. Trump started pushing the idea of conquering Greenland too, saying NATO might need to get involved in helping the U.S. take it over — as if it’s a game of Risk. He literally said we "need it for international security" and tried to rope NATO into his imperial fever dream. The look on Rutte’s face said it all.
Then, Trump pivoted to his usual bigotry. Instead of talking about defense cooperation or global security, Trump bragged about how he uses transgender people as political pawns to rile up his base before elections — saying Republicans should “bring it up a week before the election” to win votes. In other words, he openly admitted he sees cruelty and manufactured culture war nonsense as a campaign strategy. Despicable.
When asked about American small businesses hurting from tariffs, Trump did what he always does: lie and bluster. “You’re going to be so much richer,” he said. Meanwhile, Medicaid is being gutted, Social Security is under threat, and Trump’s billionaire cronies are cheering as the safety net burns.
Oh, and then Trump suggested we start sending drug dealers to the Netherlands — yes, you read that right — in a bizarre attempt at humor that landed more like a diplomatic insult, especially considering the NATO secretary general used to be the prime minister of the Netherlands.
He kept rambling about how the U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada, said the European Union is “very nasty,” claimed we can’t sell cars in Europe (not true), and then told an utterly deranged story about how he “invaded Los Angeles” to turn on the water — another lie pulled from his fantasyland. What actually happened was that he diverted water from Northern California, destroying farmland and hurting his own voters in the process.
To top it off, he said our allies shouldn’t worry about Putin, brushing off any concerns about Russian aggression with a shrug.
Let me be blunt: This is not normal. This is not politics-as-usual. This is a dangerous, unstable person with authoritarian fantasies, spewing nonsense in front of our closest allies while the world watches.”
Keep speaking up. Don’t accept any of this as normal.
Ben Meiselas

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I voted for him, but this is stupid, along with Greenland, Gulf of America, & Mar-A-Gaza. I haven't heard much talk about the Panana Canal lately. His plan to end the war in Ukraine comes across to me as peace at any price, even a dishonorable bad peace. Amounts to a surrender by Ukraine. We shall see, I guess. It does NOT mean I wish I had voted for Kamala instead.

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I voted for him, but this is stupid, along with Greenland, Gulf of America, & Mar-A-Gaza. I haven't heard much talk about the Panana Canal lately. His plan to end the war in Ukraine comes across to me as peace at any price, even a dishonorable bad peace. Amounts to a surrender by Ukraine. We shall see, I guess. It does NOT mean I wish I had voted for Kamala instead.

Amounts to a surrender?

If that is true, that would mean Ukraine WANTS to surrender.

They do not.

[GRANDPA]

Jeez, how pedantic. Are you on something?

[GFB]

I voted for him, but this is stupid, along with Greenland, Gulf of America, & Mar-A-Gaza. I haven't heard much talk about the Panana Canal lately. His plan to end the war in Ukraine comes across to me as peace at any price, even a dishonorable bad peace. Amounts to a surrender by Ukraine. We shall see, I guess. It does NOT mean I wish I had voted for Kamala instead.

And by the way..Trump and others have explained why Greenland is a necessity for National Security.

[GFB]

Here is your dilemma..

If you think Trump’s approach to peace in Ukraine is “dishonorable,” you have to be in favor of one of two things..

1. We keep paying tens of billions of dollars..regularly..to prop up Ukraine and keep them in the fight.

2. We cut them off without seeking an end to the war..ie..leave them to fight on their own. This most likely ensures Ukraine will cease to exist in a matter or months,

[GFB]

I’ll go with the Trump approach..if it’s even possible..by far the best choice.

[GRANDPA]

Here is your dilemma..

If you think Trump’s approach to peace in Ukraine is “dishonorable,” you have to be in favor of one of two things..
1. We keep paying tens of billions of dollars..regularly..to prop up Ukraine and keep them in the fight.
2. We cut them off without seeking an end to the war..ie..leave them to fight on their own. This most likely ensures Ukraine will cease to exist in a matter or months,

1. It's a European problem, let the Europeans take care of, as it appears they are finally starting to do, but I don't have a problem with giving Ukraine material aid. What we are spending now is a mere pittance compared what the cost will be when we do, inevitably, get dragged into it. The big problem I see is if we are in a war with China at the same time. We had the industrial & financial capacity to fight on two fronts in WWII. I don't think we have that now.
2. Sounds like you want to do what Britain & France did with Czechoslavakia in 1938. If that happens, the results will be the same. Putin may be satisfied with keeping what he has conquered for now, but will ultimately want the entire country back under the Russian thumb. There will be no real peace & certainly no honor. Ukraine will become a sullen, festering occupied region, ultimately exploding again into possibly an even worse rebellion. Russia will have to keep occupation troops there, at great expense
they can't afford, for many years. Like Czechoslavakia, Ukraine will consider the West, including, if not especially the US, as sell-outs, giving away another nation's sovereignty & existence to save themselves some money. Any peace negotiated with Putin, will, no doubt, be heavily favored to him.

[GFB]

Of course it will.

Boundaries around the world exist primarily from the winning or losing of wars.

It will a great success by Trump if this actually ends with a place still called “Ukraine.”