UnspecificGravity comments on US seeks to use Alberta to destabilize Canada

US seeks to use Alberta to destabilize Canada (www.lemonde.fr)

submitted 9 months ago by NightOwl@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 4 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Why?

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Trump has promised to destroy Canada and/or annex it. This is a way for the USA to undermine Canada as a country. I imagine they'll also be supporting Quebec separatists in secret, not because they have any real common cause but because they want to see Canada weakened and desperate.

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[–] JustADrone@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

(it's also the classic Russian playbook - nudge here and there to cause chaos because chaos means a weak enemy. see Brexit. see "NATO is obsolete" etc)

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

It's also the classic American playbook going as far back as the 19th century.

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Right, but why?

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Resources, Lebensraum, narcissism, envy, revenge, controlling the Arctic Ocean.

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[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago

The rapist felon trump regime feels it will be easier to annex a destabilized country.

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[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 1 point 9 months ago*

It's the classic "balkanization" flavor of regime change. Cleave off Alberta and:

Gain control of a massive oil reserve
Humiliate and weaken Canada, which would likely break up further

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