Canadian LapDog Breaks For Exit After Trump Declares Dog Is On The Menu

Carney did not try to lecture or make demand of China on Russia-Ukraine or Taiwan. He did not even bring up either subject.

Smart. Keep it to between Canada and China.

This is great news, Carney evidently has a spine. I doubted he would ‘coz he went into business with Drump during his first term. I forget whether he invested millions in a failed real estate project of Jared’s (most likely) or the Donald’s (supposedly in a “blind trust”, we know how “blind” that is.) In any case, the most significant thing about it is that this is the first dog/ lemming of the Bootlickers NOT to go off the cliff, but, as you say, to break for the exit. Perhaps he will inspire others to flee as well, since they are literally on the Menu.

I hope Carney ups his security, there’s plenty of Zio/Don-connected perps up in the Great White North I’d guess. For now (except for Greenland, which I believe is coming) most of Donnie’s threats are empty. He TACO’ed on Iran, didn’t have the forces nearby to help Bibi, too busy spending like $100 billion to kidnap one guy & his wife (collateral damage) out of Venezuela and kill 100 or so brown people, which probably at least gives Stephen Miller a hard-on.

I will dispute you on one thing, though of course I recognize you know 1,000 plus as much about Canada as I do. Others are very supine, look at Japan (their leader threatened War against China not long ago), Australia, yes the UK Lickspittles in “Little Britain” . . . will the Danes just hand it over? Stay tuned, as Mafia Don likes to say, it’s “Great TV”!! The mighty Estonia, Finland, etc, all planning to send a half-dozen or so soldiers to Ukraine to delay its doom a few hours (probably as many as the 3 of canon-fodder sent). The Phillipines!! Georgia started a war against Russia early this century that was wrapped up as a Russian victory in 5 days . . .

Donnie for now doesn’t have the balls to put “Boots on the ground” anywhere except Greenland, with only 57,000 residents. But it does start to surround Canada. I’d bet that regime change will be promoted in certain oil-rich provinces, we’ll see how that goes. He goes in for quick strikes everywhere that he can declare (a) the Greatest Victory Ever Seen in Human (or interplanetary) History, and (b) a declaration that he’s created “Peace”.

Speaking of which Marina Corrina Mossado confirmed she gave Drumpf his Norweigan Piss Prize in her own special Humiliation Ritual. That will make him feel good for about 3 minutes, if he lives long enough to leave office (not cancelling elections and becoming Dictator-for-Life) he will have the greatest collection of Dictatorial “gifts” ever given, the plane the Emiratis gifted him will go to the Trump Corporation, etc.

Being more serious, the big questions are: 1. Will the Conquest of Greenland break up NATO?, 2. Since Merz now has admitted that Russia is “Part of Europe” will there be greater cracks in the dam from those on the Menu and a real realignment, the end of Mad Maddy Albright’s “indispensable nation’s” rule? Brain-Bleed Joe or Kamala could’ve pulled that off, but Trump will do so in a more Spectacular fashion.

I would not hurry to make long bets on this one. The US has a way of making people and countries change their minds. Carney might wake up one morning with the head of a horse in his bed, and see the error in his ways.
Still the thought counts even then, as it tells us the times they are a-changing. More will follow and at some point the levee will break.

(Sorry for all the references)

I remember reading that during President Nixon’s twilight days . . . that Alexander Haig told various military people and others to be sure and check with him first if The President issued a truly strange and dangerous order. I couldn’t find anything about that on line but I did find this . . . from American Heritage, which when I was young was considered a staid and sedate mainstream-type outlet. Is it still?

Anyway . . . ” Secret Coup in the White House
Recently declassified documents reveal that Alexander Haig and other White House staff actively worked to remove Richard Nixon — the president they worked for — from office.”
https://www.americanheritage.com/secret-coup-white-house

Is there a potential Haig-figure in the Trump White House . . . maintaining back channel contact with various factions and groups within the Republicanazi Power Elite . . . considering possibilities for deleting Trump if he threatens too -many-peoples’ too-much-money? Somebody like Bessent? Perhaps Vance?

Congratulations Ian. Now I’m jealous. You guys are going to have those wonderful Chinese cars. I’m assuming Canada will be building out recharging stations, if you haven’t already.

Professor Linus Hagström at the Swedish Defence University calls the European defence doctrine “identity politics”. Le Monde Diplomatique was more explicit and called it racism and old imperialist nostalgy a few years ago, can’t find the article now.

Perhaps realism is sneaking in, slowly. I guess it will take time, perhaps too long time. There is a saying that new scientific theories win not when the old scientists change their mind but when they die. Perhaps that is true about politicians too.

As to DC’s and then PLG’s comments on Nixon in his final decline, I was a teen at the time and watched events with glee, hated Nixon (my right-wing dad loved him.)

Here’s my recollection: It was said that Kissinger gave the White House Staff a directive specifically that no Nuclear War command would be obeyed; it’s very likely Haig was in on that.

Nixon would get very drunk at this time, the main thing I recall is that one time he was beating his wife, Pat, up rather badly. Nixon was a pathetic human being full of resentment because of the misery he grew up in, always overcompensating. He was the 2nd son of an mean, poor, alcoholic dad, the oldest son died (something he had in common with Hillary and Trump, essentially their fathers directly killed the eldest, both suicides, Hill’s brother hung himself, Donnie’s drank himself to death.) Joe Biden had a Nixonian psychology, but even poorer performance. Nixon was very smart but couldn’t do well on the football team or socially ‘coz he was very ugly with that ski-slope nose, the jowls and widow’s peak. Nixon at least graduated at or near the top of his class, Joe at the bottom of his, and lied about it.

Nixon hated the privileged JFK, whose bootlegger daddy bought the Presidency for him, Bobby too, and to some extent this was clearly justified. Born with silver spoons in their mouths, handsome and glib while Richard was homely, sweaty, and started a debate with bad “afternoon shadow” hair growing in on his face.

As to beating up Pat, it was a delayed revenge. The way he “wooed” her was, he at least owned a car in college and he would drive her and her dates around as a chauffeur. A very cuckold move, obviously. The poor guy had to eat a lot of shit flung at him by his “betters” (though he was smarter than most of them), and built up an incredible amount of poorly suppressed hatred and ressentiment inside him. As President, he originally wanted to go after the “better” class that had humiliated him, but that’s not how the office works, especially not for ReThuglicans at that time, so instead he went after the blacks, protesters who he called “bums” and the unfortunate generally. Meantime he seethed with rage.

The Watergate Tapes are hilarious (at one time Harry Shearer did the worst of them, dressed up as Nixon and filmed.) Him and Kissinger calling Indira Gandhi an “old witch”, he went on and on about all the evil things “the Jews” were up to, including with Henry the K in the room, also some great spittle about all “the fags” in San Francisco, though he was referring specifically to an unhappy visit to Bohemian Grove, where the Elites cut loose and had fun like Hippies. He was very different from Trump in character, but the unhinged hatred of about 80% of the Lessers (or more) is overall similar.

So – now more tariffs on countries that oppose taking over Greenland. Most of EU/Nato countries, I hope the Supremes are paying attention. Agree, Canada is doing what is right for Canada. Will be interesting to see the Toddlers reaction. And yes – more countries to follow suit. Ironic – Trumps efforts to make America great – are making China great. New MAGA slogan: Morons Are Governing America!!

On Trump’s desire for Greenland (apologies if the first parts are obvious: the punchline
is why I’m posting).

The territory itself is unimportant for “security reasons”, or the US wouldn’t have shut down all their bases there, save one. In any case, the US has prior permission to build back up, so no need to make it a US possession.

Mineral wealth will take many, many years to get up and running, in a very inhospitable place. Again, no need to take it over, as Greenland was always going to be open to maximal USG/Corporate investment to exploit their riches.

The third pretext: Trump wants it because he’s playing Risk with the whole world as his board, so he just wants it so show as US on the map.

Much has been written about the strain that the Greenland situation is putting on the NATO alliance, but everything I’ve read or heard assumes that Trump wants Greenland for a mix of the above reasons. Could be.

I think there is a larger goal that (as risky as it is) promises Trump another level in terms of power and money.

Ending NATO is not just what Trump risks, it’s what he (and his brain trust) want above all else.

A Europe no longer under the US nuclear and conventional military umbrella would find itself much more vulnerable to Russia (already hostile to Europe over Ukraine), and would be in danger for as many years as it takes to invest in their own nuclear deterrent.

In the interim, Trump (and his MAGA successors, but probably all future regimes) can use the Russian threat (real or concocted) to shake down individual European nations, or the whole group, in a giant protection racket. Hey Estonia! Putin getting too close to you? We’ll protect you (but not your nasty neighbors!): just buy these US products; lower your taxes on these US companies; vote against that social policy of yours we don’t like; don’t persecute that party you call “Neo-Nazi” (that we really like). Do all this, and we may even lower our tariffs!

Russian pols and oligarchs could even get in on the action, demanding a slice of the extorted tort for the service of providing the threat (sort of a variation of “good cop/bad cop”).

For Trump, ending NATO is a feature, not a bug.

“Canada now has set the goal of doubling our exports to China by the end of this decade.”

– Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, January 16, 2026

https://youtu.be/KKl9ry2q68c?t=25

In that video clip segment, Carney very clearly make that statement at the Canada-China Trade & Investment Banquet.

The end of this decade is in only five years, so that sounds like a very significant increase in exports to China. Great if true!

However, searching for confirmation in Google only showed reports that “Canada is also setting a goal of increasing its overall exports to China by 50 per cent by 2030.”

So which is it, 50% or 100% (doubling)? Did Carney misspeak in that video? That seems like an unlikely mistake to make … Or was it misreported?

And from later in that same video clip, I found it noteworthy that Trump said:

“It’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that.”

– Donald Trump, January 16, 2026, on the Canadian Prime Minister’s trade deal with China.

https://youtu.be/KKl9ry2q68c?t=209

I always find it fascinating how people always reflexively downgrade the value of any trade deal involving agriculture, while simultaneously upgrading anything involving hard goods manufacturing, particularly the auto industry.

Food is 4 times the size of the auto industry in this country; the fact that Central Canada appears to be totally oblivious to this relative weighting in its calculus (as well as the central importance of being able to feed yourself – and anyone who wants to ally) except for when the literal holy cow of dairy is involved is one of the things that pisses the West right off.

I think Trump, seeing that Canada is pivoting away from the U.S., is a little worried over Canada.

Trump only bullies and walks all over countries and people who can’t stand up to him and fight back. If a country fights back and actually has leverage, he backs off. That’s his behavioral pattern.

However, in terms of military strength, Canada actually has no leverage; and Trump is using military and violence more and more to force submission.

What Canada needs to do now is to develop nuke and test one ASAP.

Apologies for the lack of clarity – I was responding to some of the comments not the main post. I completely concur – what I do wonder about is the extent to which we can focus our value add on things that are maybe a little closer towards the resource extraction end. We’re quite good at a number of these domains and if the new norm is a higher tariff regimes,* this might be a good adaptation. Going head to head with China given their structural advantages and how hard they are willing to work and the environmental externalities they are willing to bear does not strike me as a winning strategy.

As an example of this type of thing, one of the big differences I notice back home is how much more activity there is devoted to processing vegetable protein rather than just producing the base commodity. It’s not sexy and it doesn’t have the cachet of the auto industry, but it’s significantly less capital intensive and less cyclical. Similar would be our investment in oil upgraders – not sexy but it does pay and gives us much more flexibility when markets shift. These sorts of things don’t have the flash of EV battery factories, but no one will be expecting the taxpayer to pony up the equivalent of$14 million a job, either.

Looking at how the next 20 years are likely to play out, I could see us potentially ending up in the mother of all commodity cycles, with a lot of other players in more marginal areas stuck with stranded processing plants they can’t supply.

* I find myself wondering if we don’t end up with a “rest of the world” bloc that has low by historical standards tariffs and the US as the outlier with higher tariffs. If that ends up happening, I suspect they’re going to end up borking themselves in the long run as I don’t see how one restores on a large scale *and* keeps reserve currency status given how close to the edge the system is and the absence of the historical massively positive demographic catalyst.

Agreed, nuclear was one of the things knocking about in the back of my head as I was giving examples. The key challenge with it is the dual use dimension – we’ve put a lot of chips down on producing a proliferation-resistant [supposedly – cough, India, cough] version of the industry and going to enrichment would be a major departure. That said, the new SMRs going in at Darlington and Estevan are going to be LEU-fuelled in the normal range and the experimental work going on up at Chalk River was going to up at the very high end of the LEU range (I think this may be necessary for the really small designs?) which does suggest some very attractive potentialities to me.

The question to me is whether the underlying economics make sense. There are so few enrichment players and they are so big that I have questions about whether the military dimension plays a significant distorting effect. Balancing against that, whoever manages to template out a good SMR design may end up doing really well – and if we were to re-start the Chalk River micro reactor initiative, it could be a major game changer for our more remote regions. Solar’s great and all, but it isn’t the same as having robust base load and solar elevation, day length etc. are very real issues for our circumstances. Having a Canadian vertical here is a really attractive idea. I know Westinghouse’s reactor business was bought by the Brookfield guys who then brought Cameco in as a partner, so we may well be pretty well positioned for the play (the SMRs currently under construction are Hitachi I think, but I know Westinghouse has an SMR design).

More strategically, I don’t see any magic bullet for us. We’re going to have to generate myriad small wins, which is going to be tough and (at least in my opinion) a departure from what’s been getting the attention to date [innovation superclusters!! buzzword bingo! whee!]. More than anything I think we’re going to have to stop deluding ourselves about the nature of economic growth and productivity – when Global Affairs is congratulating themselves for meeting their previous target in part based on garbage like booking “student” influx from India as travel services (i.e., https://international.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/corporate/reports/chief-economist/diversification/overseas-markets-2024), it makes me want to march over there and punch someone repeatedly in the head. That said, I’m heartened by some of the moves this government is making. Not least, this is the most pro-Western Federal government we’ve had in years – regardless of how much the Wexit people squawk.

Here is a Belle of the Ranch video called: ” Let’s talk about Minnesota, Greenland, troops, and coincidence….”
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0YvoAYGgdOfySQSLcxtu1w/videos

Like many of Belle’s videos, it is a little shorter than Beau’s videos used to be and it gets more said with more information given. In briefest, it notes – among other things – that the 11th Mountain Division troops to be sent from Alaska to Minnesota will all be issued super bright green reflective vests . . . so they can be clearly distinguished from Trump’s ICE ICE Nazi gestapo operatives and their other feltrav symp partners in domestic terrorism. It ends with what some commenters in Belle’s thread say could not POSSibly be a masterpiece of straight-faced sardonic snarcasm about why those troops from Alaska specifically have been sent to Minnesota. She notes that it could not POSSibly be a form of malicious compliance because the Military is of course totally and unanimously in support of President Pedophile Piggy’s agenda and command. ( Yeah . . . maybe so).

Its only 4 minutes and some seconds long . . . not too long a timechunk to risk trying it out to see if one likes it. I liked it.