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Many folks like Trump’s foreign takeover goals, but there are a few significant ones out there who don’t. Mainly, the ones who LIVE in those ripe-for-takeover places.<\/p>\n
Canada…a great place to start. Lovely country, more lakes than you can believe, clean, sorta safe cities, kinda talk funny but from\u00a0 Texas, all a’ y’all do. Our favorite northern buffer zone, reliable allies – what’s not to like? Now, the Canadian tariffs are wha RREALLY don’t make sense. Supposedly we are ‘punishing’ them for not discouraging the southbound fentanyl trade. One small detail: in all of last year,\u00a0 we seized less than 50 pounds along that whole border.<\/p>\n
Federal statistics show US border authorities seized 21,889 pounds of fentanyl in the 2024 fiscal year. Of that amount, 43 pounds were seized at the Canadian border \u2014 about 0.2% \u2014 compared with 21,148 pounds at the Mexican border, about 96.6%. CNN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Prime Minister Trudeau (hey, I don’t like him either) says it is a calculated economic attack to collapse Canada’s economy.\u00a0 BBC<\/a>\u00a0 My perception of Canadians is that they lean leftist, and even have a whopping big province that owes allegiance to France and speaks French. Good luck getting them to recognize American English as the one true tongue. Trump must really like the idea of 35,000,000 more Democrats?<\/p>\n
But Trump pushed even further in a post on Truth Social, saying: “Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he puts on a Retaliatory Tariff on the U.S., our Reciprocal Tariff will immediately increase by a like amount!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, we are already at 25%…do I hear 50% 75%?<\/p>\n
And then there is Greenland. Officially a protectorate of Denmark. Where have we heard of them? Oh, yes, they belong to NATO with us. Trump wants to make them ours. Greenland’s Prime Minister M\u00fate Bourup Egede says:<\/p>\n
“Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland in the Greenlandic language) is ours,” Egede wrote on social media. “We don’t want to be Americans, nor Danes; We are Kalaallit. The Americans and their leader must understand that. We are not for sale and cannot simply be taken. Our future will be decided by us in Greenland.”<\/p>\n
Denmark’s Defense Minister Trouls Lund Poulsen also responded to Mr. Trump’s claims about taking over Greenland, telling the Danish public broadcaster on Wednesday: “That won’t happen.”\u00a0 CBS News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sounds like a GREAT fit – who the heck can even spell the name of their language without looking?<\/p>\n
With only 60,000 residents, Greenland would probably be no worse than taking over any other small country….say, like Ukraine. OK, that was a cheap shot. But the fact remains – if they don’t want to be part of the US, then there is no other way to rope them in if they don’t want to be bought, right? Are we now so similar to Russia that we invade our way to our goals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"