- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
A top White House official has threatened to redraw the Canadian border amid Donald Trump’s ambition to turn the country in America’s “51st state”.
Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, is pushing US negotiators to discuss reworking the border with their Canadian counterparts, The Telegraph can reveal.
“Navarro recommended revising the Canada-US border, which is just crazy and dangerous,” a source close to negotiations told The Telegraph.
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Maybe south of Seattle? Lol.
which had been paused for 30 days after Mr Trudeau agreed to take action against illegal migration and drug trafficking into the US.
Putting a bit of spin on it. Their plans were already in place before Trump came into office. This makes it seem like the US actually got a concession.
Yeah but some Canadian now has a fancy title of “Fentanyl Czar”… So it’s totally different
From the Peter Navarro story linked:
According to Mr Navarro’s 2001 book, If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks, Vara was a captain in a reserve unit during the Gulf War as well as a doctoral student in economics at Harvard University in the US.
Are the freakonomics guys in the government yet?
Dubner and Leavitt are waaaay too qualified to be in this administration.
Sorry America, but you’ve gone Anakin Skywalker. You are now the bad guys.
America is Palpatine.
It just revealed that it was the sith lord all along.
Yeaaaaah, a lot of us hate ot here, it isn’t like 35% of us that are the douchebags.
Only just now!?
Well, maybe America was always the bad guy, but had (mostly) good people in control of checks and balances. Like, it was always Anakin, but had Obiwan keeping on eye on things.
But now Obiwan is dead and America is in the tower chopping up kids.
With a sharpie I presume?
“We protect Canada, but it’s not fair. It’s not fair that they’re not paying their way, and if they had to pay their way they couldn’t exist,” he told reporters.
FUCK YOU
This is actually fucking ridiculous
“ridiculous” is a rather generous way to express the absolute lunatic raving idiocy involved in even considering consolidating a sovereign nation (Canada, FFS??) into the fantastical ravings of a Napoleonic miserable little toddler’s colonialist dreams in search of some lasting legacy other than first felonious criminal that made it to occupant of the oval office.
🤦♀️ 🖕 🖕
What in the actual fuck?
What are they (I doubt he’s smart enough to pull all of this off on his own) doing while we’re all aghast at this stupidity?
Russia.
I mean, I’m cool with redrawing the Canadian border… as long as we add the West Coast to Canada.
CA here, I’d like to be able to afford healthcare thanks. Our GDP would help Canada tremendously, it’s a fair trade.
When a slight-of-hand trick is in progress, be sure to watch what the other hand is doing.
Canada is running down the funding sources behind the freedom convoy. A bunch of involved domestic groups have been officially labelled domestic terrorists meaning everyone involved in funding them is on the hook. A whole bunch of that money was laundered through far right wing supporters in the US.
OMG, I’m going to be too embarrassed to move to Canada.
If we put the revised boarder far enough south, you won’t need to move
Now you’re talking!
With a sharpie.
I mean he could nuke the border, that’s the other way to deal with hurricanes right?
What are they gonna use? A sharpie?
That’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works
This is, actually, how it works. See: every other border dispute.
Can’t arbitrarily redraw an international border without negotiation
The United Nations Charter prohibits the annexation of a state’s territory by another state through the use of force. Annexation is considered an act of aggression and a violation of international law
Funny thing about International Law. It only ever seems to apply when when someone has the will and the power to enforce it. Who has the power to enforce it if the US is the guilty party?
Sanctions
The US has a LOT of trading partners
Had
And yet it regularly happens with little consequence.
Bigger army diplomacy is a remarkably effective negotiation strategy.
From William Spaniel
The Madman Theory - The Scientific Art of Negotiating with a Possibly Irrational Opponent
We live in an era where multiple major world leaders have the perception of behaving irrationality. How should the opponent of such a leader negotiate in such cases? It turns out, what makes the situation more interesting is how a rational leader should behave if others think he may be irrational. This is known as the “madman theory” of international relations. Today, we take a deep look into it and see that the benefits of being a perceived madman are fleeting.
The hamberders can not give this guy a heart attack fast enough.
