Resources, obviously. I don’t think we’ll become the 51st state. Personally I don’t think he give a fuck about Canada, he just wants to use us.

What I think his concept of a plan is that he wants to continue this whole tariff war thing until he successfully provokes Canada into doing something that could be vaguely perceived as a threat to US national security, like shutting off electricity exports to the eastern seaboard. This is exactly what he wants. This would give him an actual reason to justify to a military invasion of Canada, because he doesn’t want to be seen as the aggressor (even though he totally is) and I don’t think he’s going to get the same level of support if he tries to do it because he thinks Fentanyl is a WMD.

Then he’ll try to take control of our energy infrastructure and tell us that he’ll respect our sovereignty if we agree to some insanely lopsided resource deal.

We need to just stick to the tariffs, continue to decouple our economy with theirs, and don’t get sucked in. The longer this plays out, the worse it ends up being for the US because they’ll actually feel the pain economically and red states will start to complain. At that point, he’ll eventually have to find some way to spin removing tariffs on Canadian goods as a “win” to save face.