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On those calls, President Trump laid out a long list of grievances he had with the trade relationship between the two countries…He also brought up something much more fundamental. 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.

He wanted to tear up the Great Lakes agreements and conventions between the two nations that lay out how they share and manage Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario. Canadian officials took Mr. Trump's comments seriously, not least because he had already publicly said he wanted to bring Canada to its knees. In a news conference on Jan. 7, before being inaugurated, Mr. Trump, responding to a question by a New York Times reporter about whether he was planning to use military force to annex Canada, said he planned to use "economic force."

How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious - The New York Times

I'm 100% convinced that the Republican cult would support Trump annexing Canada.

wow. they're like actually braindead

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— ghosts of nomads past (@ghosts.bsky.social) 7 March 2025 at 17:31