Ιf Canada is erased, there is an uninterrupted region linking Russia to the entirety of North America, except, well, Greenland.
“Oh come on, Trump is an idiot bully, who doesn’t understand cooperation, only coercion. He doesn’t realize his approach is actually harming US Economy.”
Or, does he?
“Canada erasure” is a take on recent Trump’s trade-war on Canada, argues Drew Wilson
I am in no position to know Trump’s true plans, nor read his mind. What I do know is that in the past we have been fooled by his apparent dumbassery.
We underestimated him. Some of the shit he spews are well thought-out plans coming from well-funded think-tanks.
The Heritage Foundation is one. It is not the only one. A Nazi eugenicist fund was revealed last week, as an incubator of his anti-DEI, and anti-gender politics. You bet there is more.
This Nature paper from Justin Farrel reveals a convoluted graph of meddling between anti-climate think-tanks and American media. And this is just scratching the surface.
Can we agree that there are heavily funded think-tanks shaping policy and public consent of a broad range of topics?
We also have good reasons to believe Trump is a Russian asset. As Orban is.
The whole saga of Trumps blackmail against Ukraine, and its recent culmination in the White House is only supplemented by the actual investigative journalism on Trump being poached as early as 1987.
As with all other things Trump, at this point, not seeing that is either willful ignorance, or sth else. In any case, in a couple months, we will be right about this one as well.
Don’t tell me you weren’t taken aback by the swift spread of the anti-DEI thing. Just like Tik-Tok was adopted at an unprecedented rate compared to Facebook, the DEI acronym spread way faster than “woke”, “critical race theory”, and “political correctness”, COMBINED.
Why is the rate different? Because of the network of right-wing media becoming more and more coherent and inter-connected.
Nothing Trump does is an accident. His withdrawal from the climate summit and the World Health Organization was not an accident.
The argument so far is that Trump is an asset for an ultra-conservative, well-resourced, human crap actor networks, one of which is possibly Russia.
Many things that Trump says are the product of a well-funded public-relations work of think-tanks, who are in turn propaganda organizations paid to reach foregone conclusions, and were initially created by the military-industrial complex.
I have entertained Drew Wilson’s theory of Canada-erasure, and assumed that Trump’s ramblings are consequential and meaningful. I have also assumed that Trump is a mouthpiece for the actors that are behind the ludicrous funding of the propaganda apparatus. I therefore deem the question reasonable, who stands to gain from a possible Canada annexation, and why.
Siberia is adjacent to the US at the Bering Sea. This happens because the US owns Alaska. If Canada ceases to be a sovereign state in North America, there will be an uninterrupted block of land from the Russian border on Finland to the US border with Mexico.
If Greenland is similarly annexed, and Trump plays on Putin’s side, the whole Arctic Circle will be surrounded. By Russia.
Russia also controls Europe with energy. There is something sexy up there, be it natural gas or fossil fuels. Also, things change quickly up there due to global warming. The future Arctics might provide opportunities we don’t dare think about. The bastards might know something we know not.
On the other hand, we can be certain that climate change will lay the Global South to waste in the decade to come.
“Real estate for billionaires in the Arctics will be a riot in ten years time, Vlad”, a post-coital Trump might have whispered.
It is plausible, although entirely speculative, that some people have more complete information than us, and they could be making moves to secure their position in global power ranks in the next two decades.
Alternatively, the ruling class might be complete buffoons who don’t think the NASA and the rest of climate and meteorological science is credible. I doubt the alternative.
https://www.newsweek.com/nato-russia-arctic-north-pole-2037200
And the Baltic sea https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/03/nato-must-prepare-to-defend-its-weakest-point-the-suwalki-corridor/
Credit: This person brought this to my attention: https://lemmy.ml/u/NimdaQA@lemmy.world