He doesn’t care if people die, he never has.
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
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Yep. He uses it as a point to sell getting the war to end in a way that will benefit himself. But when it comes down to it he does not really care how many people die.
He doesn't actually care. Never has. He'd burn his own children at the stake if it meant getting a few more scraps of power.
Like others have said, Trump doesn't care about us pleebs dying. If he did, why did he give Israel the go ahead to break that ceasefire and murder 400 Palestinians?
Hey, atleast those Gen z dipshits can say "I DidNT VoTe FoR KamAlAmA DinGdoNg bEcaUsE I cArE aBoUt GaZa"
What he expects is for the Canadian public to fold up like lawn chairs and allow unfavourable trade deals, with the threat of U.S. military might hanging over the negotiations.
Seems to be what is happening at least our leadership.
Trump has restricted press access during media events. He has surrounded himself with journalists that will not question the narrative too much for fear of being expelled.
They won't ask questions like that so they don't get blacklisted.
Trump is a complete idiot, separated from reality, dementia setting in, and is a tool of Russia to weaken the west.
He doesn't give a shit about anyone.
He also doesn't understand how horrible a war with someone right next door would leak into their country. Canadians look and speak just like Americans. It would be very easy for us to cross the giant unsecured border and start blowing up government buildings or start assassinating Trump's family, his judges, Musk and his family, and all the red state officials. I know a ton of people in the states that would join the rebel side against the USA for Canada.
Their military is larger than ours, but historically they've NEVER been able to hold a country.
Trump continually says the war in Ukraine is horrible, soldiers and civilians are dying everyday and he hates to see suffering and dying over there.
When he says that, he's talking about the Russians
The only thing he cares about is money - for himself and anyone who kisses his ass - trying to fuck his own daughter.
Any reporter who's inclined to ask tough questions and actually given a chance has about three hundred others that hit closer to home for their own electorate. They'll be lucky if they can ask two, and know they're not getting an actual answer anyway.
Your premise is incorrect. Trump lies about basically everything. He's a business thug in charge of a country. He's backed by a group of villionaires who are only interested in their own success.
My concern is that once push comes to shove he's gonna deploy a nuke, take out a major city, and demand surrender under the threat of more nukes. At this rate it doesn't seem so far fetched considering everything else he's ranted about
I think we'd only see that as a serious possibility after a conventional military invasion had turned into a quagmire, and we'd only see a conventional military invasion after a lot more provocations and failed "economic" annexation attempts.
I think Trump believes that Canada really is just some piece of real estate he can "acquire", but that very fact means that he's not going to go straight to the biggest guns because he assumes the Americans will be welcomed as liberators after just a little effort. It's only when those little efforts keep on failing that there'll be ramp-up.
This will take years. We're in for a long haul, and victory for Canada is possible at each step along the way, so I'm not too worried yet. Angry, but not worried.
Ideally, we'll help Ukraine finish off Russia in the near future and then we'll be able to purchase a ton of really spiffy gear from Ukraine that'll take an invasion off the table. Ironically, all that military hardware the Americans gave Ukraine under Biden can now be reverse-engineered to make good anti-American-forces drones if needed.
Fair points all around. Especially noteworthy since "people" like Kevin O'Leary and others surrounding President Donald are all telling him that lots of Canadians want to be Americans. He's definitely in an echo chamber
I think it’s time for the Canadian government to carve out exceptions in the gun laws for those who are trained militia and reservists. Like, so long as you are properly trained and completely fail to trigger any “red flag” laws, you should be good to own any weapon clear up to naval artillery.
Canada should also be stockpiling said weaponry for immediate distribution when an invasion does occur. We just don’t have the military to prevent any kind of an invasion, but even a moderately trained civilian can sow a lot of chaos with a basic sniper-class rifle and some elevation. They don’t even have to hit anyone, technically; even near misses that audibly ricochet can delay troops and slow them down.
Wars aren't won with weapons. Battles are won with weapons. Wars are won with intelligence and logistics.
Russia tried to make their "special military operation" a battle and take Kyiv in the first few days. They failed, and now they have a war on their hands. If you follow the details of the war, a lot of focus is placed on cities that are well-connected to other cities by road or by water. Your military can be much more agile in where it chooses to deploy resources if you control the supply infrastructure.
Occupations are notoriously even worse. The asymmetry of maintaining resources for an occupation is huge. Relatively small pockets of resistance, well applied, can cripple an occupier's forces, even if the resistance is relatively poorly armed.
The question is what the limit of the American populous's tolerance for soldiers dying to occupy Canada, of all places. I hope we never find out.
even if the resistance is relatively poorly armed.
My point being: why let them be? Why intentionally nerf Canadian citizenry, when they could be given every advantage?
I think we agree on the overall premise, but disagree on the degree. I also think that's fine. I don't know how hard it would be to arm Canadians broadly as you suggest. I'm suggesting that armament will be most effective built on a foundation of intelligence and logistics.
I think there would be value in something like the Swiss model (though I understand that it isn't as ubiquitous as it once was).
My concern is that once push comes to shove he’s gonna deploy a nuke, take out a major city, and demand surrender under the threat of more nukes.
Canada is well loved around the world. If he nuked us, the US would be severely fucked.
Canada is so close to the USA that any nuke would also blow into the USA and cause problems down there. The entire world would gang up on the USA if they nuked Canada. Not even sure if Russia, North Korea or China would side with the USA if they did that. They have too many enemies and are losing their allies so I really don’t know who would side with the USA if they did that. It would be their downfall
I don't think he cares about radioactive fallout in NY
I'm not sure Trump cares if it damages the US
He's so delusional, he thinks Canada will welcome a hostile takeover
Just like Ukraine welcomed the Russians.
He doesn't care
He also doesn't think the Russian invasion of Ukraine is anything bad, he can understand that because that's what dictators do, he'd like to do the same. He doesn't care if plebs live or die, so it's all fine for him.
He'd care about Americans coming back in body bags only because it would be bad publicity, so bad for his ratings and ego
US foreign policy is completely incoherent right now. The answers don't really matter. They're just making these individual policy decisions based on trying to bully their allies/enemies to test the water as to how far they can impose their will on the rest of the world and be unpredictable.
Why does the US need critical minerals from Ukraine if there's no global heating and therefore we wouldn't need Elon Musk's EVs? Their positions make sense (to them) individually, but don't make any sense when you put them together. But when your electorate has the memory of a squirrel and is glued to social media propaganda feeds, you don't need coherent policy to stay in power.