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.
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
Bigger army diplomacy is a remarkably effective negotiation strategy.
From William Spaniel
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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.
With a sharpie.
I mean he could nuke the border, that’s the other way to deal with hurricanes right?
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.
My guess is that Medicaid cuts are the big one. Cutting Medicaid ain’t popular. It would probably be very much undesirable for Trump and more-generally the GOP if that were the major topic of discussion on social media.
With a sharpie I presume?
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The hamberders can not give this guy a heart attack fast enough.
“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
If there is an American/Canadian war, I’ll sign up on the side of the Canadians. - An American
This is why I don’t think it will ever happen.
US Miliary personnel have worked hand in hand with the Canadians half a century doing everything from joint ops to sharing bases. I think a lot of them would simply refuse to invade Canada without congress first declaring an official war, and congress wouldn’t do that because it would be horrifically unpopular with the US populace.
Congress is majority R, I wouldn’t put it past them.
Give Canada Point Roberts, WA and the Northwest Angle, MN.
In for all of Cascadia tbh
The Pacific States of America has a nice ring to it
Wasn’t this a movie? Comedy, guys from super troopers, maybe…? It was a dispute over a single town, but you know what, I mean.
Peter Navarro is not a serious person. He’s a fucking moron and he always has been.
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.
Settler Colonialism. It just works.
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
Also more fentanyl comes into Canada from the USA than out… That’s not even mentioning the guns
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.
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