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[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Canada has a ton of untapped natural resources that he wants to irresponsibly harvest and sell for the fastest profit and growth. A lot of these resoucres are hard to access due to how northern they are but melting sea ice is making northern ports and shipping routes more feasible, increasing access to these remote resources. The times he refers to as "america being great" were times of heavy natural resource extractions and little to no environmental regulations. He is also eying Canada's vast fresh water supplies.

The Colorado river has customers purchasing more water than the river even has flowing in it. On top of this, very poor water regulation policy means farmers are encouraged to use as much water as they can rather than preserve water when possible because unused water may be taken off of next years allotment. Instead of reworking these policies and discouraging water intensive agriculture cash crops in the area, he'd rather just take Canada's water.

A big part of this may have started from his ego but strategically America absolutely stands to benefit economically, militarily, and food security wise from annexing Canada. Canadians cannot afford to take these threats lightly.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

strategically America absolutely stands to benefit economically, militarily, and food security wise from annexing Canada.

Only of you pretend there are no Canadians. Once you factor in the cost of generations of hatred, terrorism, and insurgency from the people America just stabbed on the collective backs, not to mention the international reaction, maybe the old idea of paying for our resources in fair trade would have worked out better.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Average Canadians are not well armed and don't have as much access to a weapons market as other insurgencies in the past. If america genuinely needs more water at some point, its very likely they are willing to pay those prices. Look how long they fought in places less important than securing water, essential for life. America also doesn't give a shit if they kill civilians in a bombing run and those numbers could increase if they are trying to send a message. Some of the thirsty Americans would even be cheering the flames if it kept their taps running.

Canada should invest in its own defense and also look into alliances with other nations.

[–] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Critical infrastructure that could easily sabotaged by Canadian guerilla forces, pipelines, waterlines, dams, bridges, electrical infrastructure,etc. We look like you, sound like you and we can get to you.

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