• hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    As a Californian, I would love for us to become Canada’s newest province.

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      1 month ago

      I wouldn’t, as Canadian, because California would fully dominate such a union. It would be Canada joining California, not the reverse. Economically, politically, you’d be the biggest and most important province. I doubt you’ll be happy being part of Confederation or being technically a monarchy.

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        1 month ago

        Conveniently, if any states were to join Canada, they would most likely do so as territories (at least initially), and so would be somewhat politically neutered.

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      1 month ago

      Hate to say it but imho trump would not let you leave. Is this something you guys are discussing with each other, I am genuinely interested.

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        1 month ago

        Let? What, is he going to say it’s against the law? Who gives a shit what a felon thinks about rules and who can and can’t do what.

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          1 month ago

          He’s in charge of the most advsnced military that has ever existed.

          If an economic powerhouse state like tx ca leaves, they’ll be given surrender terms by the fed and systematically destroyed until the terms are met.

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            I don’t think you understand how our military works. It’s not a bunch of soulless T-1000’s you can sick on your enemy, it’s a military full of Californians that might not like killing their family members lol

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    1 month ago

    "Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly had one stark warning to share Wednesday: “If the U.S. can do this to us, their closest friend, then nobody is safe.”

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        1 month ago

        For now, fascists always turn on their allies eventually, they always need an enemy

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          They are not krasnov’s allies. They are his overlords. Trump exists because putin allows it.

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            Sure, I mean that’s fascism in general that there are no true allies. Only subservient factions. But they either all die together or eat each other one by one until they die, it’s the historical route of fascists.

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    1 month ago

    "…but now representing a GREAT and POWERFUL STATE within the greatest Nation that the World has ever seen!”

    Why does that quote from Krasnov immediately give Russia vibes 🤔

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    It is not just Trump, there is very little coming from the US that is not complete acceptance of his actions. For a long time the rest of the world called the USA the great satan and I think Western powers are beginning to see it.

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      For a long time I’ve worried that one day the USA would realize Canada has water, natural resources and strategic coastline, and suddenly all the “friendship” would become void and we’d get to experience what the USA has always done to countries with things it wants. But with Trump this has happened quicker than expected, and he’s going to push hard to crush our country before we have time to defend ourselves. He’s also going to try to divide European countries and Canada against one another. It’s crucial that Europe and Canada find some solidarity right now and stand together in the face of the danger from the USA.

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        The US just does not have the power to take on its allies and the rest of the world in open aggression. Any thought that it does is illusory, look at relatively small countries like Vietnam and Afghanistan where it just had to leave or the terrible mess of the Middle East. It can not colonise in the way it was possible to do 200 years ago, the power asymmetry is just not there. Added into that many of the targeted countries are nuclear powers and part of numerous combined defense treaties. Any real action he takes will be visited back on him in equal or larger measure. At some level the US if not Trump must instinctively understand this, it is the past rational for proxy over direct wars.