Says the man who has withheld military aid and intelligence to Ukraine just in the last week, resulting in dozens of lost innocent lives. (Also, Israel has just cut off electricity to Gaza. No doubt Trump is cheering them on.)
I think this is the clearest sign of his dementia. He’s convinced himself that he can make this happen. It’s ridiculous.
Josh Marshall had some thoughts on this on BlueSky today that I thought were insightful:
The word “trade war” gets thrown around casually. They’re usually more tits for tats, escalating diplomatic eye-poking. But what Trump is doing now with Canada, just upgraded with new tariffs this morning, is more and more like waging a war against our neighbor albeit it economic means.
The tariffs now are far, far beyond anything with an economic or trade logic behind them, even in the sense of creating pressure for an agreement. These are more like trying to wreck Canada’s economy and immiserate its people. Combine that with endless demands for an anschluss and you see the true nature of what’s happening here.
Those of in the US who are ashamed of Trump’s shambling moral degeneracy and predation can’t help but see the 51st state horseshit as fundamentally stupid. But in its totality, I’m sure it seems like more than stupid to our friends and neighbors in Canada because at the end of the day the US probably could starve the Canadian economy.
And of course, we have nuclear weapons, the most powerful military in the world. Of course, that’s craziness to even talk of such things. But do you know you where Trump’s limit really is? I didn’t think so.
Seriously, you have to think about it. He’s decompensating every day and he’s getting more and more irrational and aggressive. There is nobody in his inner circle to stop him.
Yes, that’s the worst case scenario and maybe it’s hyperbolic to even bring it up. But even if he doesn’t go that far, look how far they are willing to let him go:
Here’s quote from Mike Johnson who is allegedly a smart guy. Does this make any sense at all to you?
