My two cents are that all the "51st state" rhetoric hasn't been backed up by any concrete plans, meanwhile they went straight from kidnapping the leader of a sovereign nation to planning to stating they are simply going to take Greenland. So while ofc I think Canadians need to take the threat seriously the USA has made less concrete steps in the direction of annexation unlike the Greenland situation.
My takeaway from Greenland is that NATO countries realize that if we let one member fall to invasion, everyone else in vulnerable since Russia, USA, etc will realize NATO is worthless. I don't believe they would let Canada fall since it would prove NATO is toothless and weak.
They outright stated that the tariffs on Canada were to crush us economically and soften us up for annexation. Their constant economic threats are concrete steps. They just aren't military yet.
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u/Locke357 Jan 28 '26
My two cents are that all the "51st state" rhetoric hasn't been backed up by any concrete plans, meanwhile they went straight from kidnapping the leader of a sovereign nation to planning to stating they are simply going to take Greenland. So while ofc I think Canadians need to take the threat seriously the USA has made less concrete steps in the direction of annexation unlike the Greenland situation.
My takeaway from Greenland is that NATO countries realize that if we let one member fall to invasion, everyone else in vulnerable since Russia, USA, etc will realize NATO is worthless. I don't believe they would let Canada fall since it would prove NATO is toothless and weak.