Tariff threats

Posted May 30, 2025 9:44 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Tariff threats by mathstuf
Parent article: Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet

And? By voting records, Canada doesn't like Trump but that doesn't seem to put him off the idea of annexing Canada.

Tariff threats

Posted Jun 6, 2025 11:41 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I was more reacting to the "escape Trump" part. Trump is threatening to annex Canada for glory/"look how much land I added to the US"/bragging rights/mineral rights. I doubt there is anything amounting to consideration for the existing residents of the land (much the same with Greenland).