by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I didn’t entitle this “Will Trump Invade Canada?” because I am doing anti-SEO. I don’t want a wave to anxious Canadians coming to this site looking for answers that I just can’t give.
All I have is my opinion. As an American.
Now that we’re in a new normal where Trump is actively remaking the world in his own image, yes, I do think it’s possible that Trump could order an invasion of Canada.
There’s not a high probability, but it exists.
And that probability increases if there is any sort of skirmish between Canada and the US over…ugh…Greenland.
The issue is, I can’t tell you that there is anything or anyone in the US political system at the moment that would stop Trump from invading Canada. Things are so fucked up that Trump literally could invade Canada and Republicans would be silent and Democrats powerless.
There would be a wave of revulsion in the USA population that it happened, but it still would happen. And Trump would, in fact, demand that the entire fucking nation of Canada be the “51st state.”
And the really unnerving thing about the whole situation is because Canada isn’t some uniform block of people, there would be a lot of Canadians (as I understand it) would, after the shock wore off, at least want to negotiate some sort of peaceful assumption of power by the States over Canada.
Or, put another way, Canada would probably implode into parts that wanted to be American and parts that didn’t. (I think, I’m an American, but that seems to be the state of play on the ground in Canada at the moment.)
Anyway, I can’t predict WHEN this will happen, just that it MIGHT. We still have (at least) three years of Trump to go and he’s growing so bonkers that it literally could happen at any time or at no time.
Only time will tell.
