This would be a good plan if we were dealing with a normal politician. Sadly, 200 million drooling idiots gave trump essentially unlimited power and he would 1000% invade in retaliation
They’d run out of food a week in.
Oh man if the Canadians aren’t already planning this, that’s an enormous missed opportunity.
They’re not. It’s just some shitpost hot-take.
If you want a country to shut down a key commerce artery in order to stick it to the Americans, you need their leadership to have some fucking دلیرترین
I don’t think we’re going to see that out of a country whose residents are mostly known for their habit of apologizing.
There is a difference between being polite and being weak.
I don’t think Mark Carney is being polite.
Really? he’s delivering a masterclass on how a middle power can wipe the floor with Trump
Is he? Looks like he’s just echoing Trump’s own tariffs reactively, with no other plans or contingencies.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/دلیر#Persian
Looks like دلیرترین means bravest, I think you just wanted دلیر for brave, or دلاور for bravery.
Cool if you’re not familiar with the status of the current US Canada trade dispute since its not relevant for most of the world but…
Aside from China (which has much more leverage), Canada is the only country to apply significant retaliatory / counter tariffs on the US and they’re doing this despite being an historical ally of the US. Most other allies rolled over immediately.
Canada has already demonstrated outsized resilience for its stature against US economic aggression.
Closing a waterway that acts as a major trade route is considered an act of war. Makes sense for a country in Iran’s position where options are limited and their existance has been threatened by Western elites / the Epstein class repeatedly. Makes absolutely no sense in this dispute.
DO IT!
As someone dependent on that canal living in the states, do it. Make that dumb fuck hurt and all of his dumb fuck supporters hurt too.
Iran’s got america by the balls for oil right now why not kick us while we’re down.
As a nation, we’ve had it coming. 250 years of bloody, ruthless empire was bound to come back at us. The sooner it does, the sooner people will learn some fucking compassion
Honestly though, the world needed a strong player atleast pretending to care about freedom. Sad to see y’all going tits up now.
Man who tf is “we”I ain’t taking the fall for this
The royal we, referring to our government. We aren’t necessarily taking the fall for it, but unless we restructure our government and economy, we’ll be the ones that feel the effects of their genocidal reign.
Sorry mate MAGA has sealed the date of the US. You’re going to take the fall and live in a shit hole country for many decades.
As a nation blah blah blah, agreed.
As a person with multiple different lineages of subjugated minorities running through my veins, I am tired of having to hurt and having mine hurt in the hierarchy games of “The White Man”, the colonizer, the imperialist.
This will not teach or create compassion, for all that it may be geopolitically necessary for a better world.
Every single time a force has risen to poke that bear, it has always ended short of finishing the job, giving rise not to compassion but to a simple dormancy of evil for a time, and minorities splattered as collateral.
Unfortunately there’ll always be that 33% fringe who supports that idiot and anything fascism-adjacent.
And the 77% refusing to bash the fash.
And the 10% who can’t add properly.
We’re americans the fact that it adds up to 110% isn’t a mistake it’s by design.
If the math doesn’t math, go fash. -American corpo backed leadership through all of American history
More like ‘if the opposition leader is only 95% good then let’s stay home and let fash win!’ - Leftists everywhere in this country.
Technically, it probably includes some overlap, so not necessarily incorrect. If that 77% includes most of the 33% (because, presumably, most of the fash supporters don’t want to bash the fash) then that leaves a remaining ~23% who are willing to bash some fash.
Only 20% can’t be saved, the rest can
Close it!
Canada’s shuttin’ down the Straits of Welland y’all!
I think you mean the “Fuck Donald Trump Canal”
Or the ‘Ivanka Trump Birth Canal’. He’ll be all over it in no time
It’s not that Canada has no options to escalate the trade war, it’s that they recognize the obvious truth that escalation hurts both countries
Counterpoint, escalating the petty stuff would be beneficial.
IMO Canada should launch an investigation into the Epstein files and bring it up after stating the short and obvious things about the trade dispute.
That is, imo, a much more effective counter.
You don’t play an abuser’s game.
Trump is a rapist, he thinks like one.
Force him to play a different game.
… while also simultaneously gathering allies, and bunkering down.
And the US legislative branch has a ticking clock over their heads with the midterm elections in November so turning other knobs are probably contingent on those results.
Trump and MAGA and ICE are going to steal the elections.
Not sure if you missed it, but the Supreme Court essentially just mandated that the Federal Government must be provided with a full list of every registered voter any mailed ballot is to be sent to, 60 days prior to the election.
They then get to review those lists, and throw out whoever the fuck they want.
That in and of itself, in any other time, would be a Constitutional Crisis… but the whole strategy is ‘flood the zone’, baffle us all with so much bullshit we literally cannot even comprehend it all.
They’ll literally just declare everyone who publically disagrees with their election proceedings to be terrorists, more or less straight out of the Nazi playbook.
… Canada does not have time on its side.
Nor do Americans, to be frank, but that’s not the subject of this thread.
Cool, but does this belong in Murdered by Words?
It does not.
Awesome. Comment today, for tomorrow we are removed!
Piefed has a feature to move a post to a different community. We’d be happy to take this post at !soulism@multiverse.soulism.net
I would bet the ambassdor bridge’s yearly toll value that Canada won’t do jack shit in terms of actually shanking the US outside of tit for tat tariffs because the EU also continued to suck Trump’s metaphorical trombone despite pulling the exact same scam last year.
They could shutdown land trade just as easily in an attempt to force the US to comply, but they won’t.
Based on what I saw today in terms of people leaving the local Walmart, I’m gonna say the new name for this Strait better have something to do with toilet paper and paper towels. Every single cart seemed like it had giant packages of one, the other, or both.
Inb4 trump says we don’t need it and that we’ll build our own canal on our side, called the america canal funded by the tariffs.
Trump draws a route on the map in sharpie.
The trump boys buy a lot of land around buffalo then sell it at its peek 2 weeks later before Trump loses interest and moves on to the next thing.
Or he will ask why those idiot sailors don’t just use that river to the east that runs along the border instead of that fancy Canadian canal. Might even order the bombing of the canal since they don’t need it anyways.
So these are the Statesian side shipping routes i’m familiar with. because that’s the era of history i studied [mid 19th century]. i don’t know what they are currently so take this map with a 25 pound sack of salt, i don’t know what is currently used.
The one going into indiana is maumee, ?(Little River?), Wabash to ohio river to Mississippi. Maumee is dammed a few times, so not navigable… Little River is basically a creek… Muamee has ports but is dammed not far in.
The other going down Ohio is maumee, auglaize,???, great Miami… No idea how that was all navigable…
Cleveland is cuyoga and seems the most reasonable and still today has tons of lift bridges for navigating.
Some of those get fairly wide, but we’re talking old small ships I have to imagine… Most of those get pretty damn low regularly… Granted clime change and damming have a big effect.
Erie Canal is still open! The Wellend canal can handle a much larger variety of craft though
Can’t they just go down the Niagara falls?
Yes, but getting back up would be a problem.
Not with HM07/05.
The mental image of a large cargo ship just sliding up niagara falls is funny
The Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 means Canada can’t close the canal and sadly the treaty also states that canadian and american ships can not be treated differently when it comes to transit-taxes.
That papper mean anything to the orange fuck.
Yes, but I would assume that a sane country like Canada still feels obligated to respect international law.
Rules are irrelevant. The treaty of right now means go to hell, make me.
Those treaties make absolutely no mention of ship transit between Lake Erie and Lake “America”. Sure they can’t transit tax american ships between Erie and Ontario. But they sure as shit can tax between Erie and “America”.
hormuz canal
