• pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    He really doesn’t seem to comprehend the consequences of that “51st state” garbage. It’s doing a great job pissing off Canadians, inspiring patriotism and unifying them.

    The very same Canadians who constitute a decent slice of our tourism. The ones who import our agriculture and goods, and are now preferring to buy local voluntarily. They forgot/forgave the economic strong-arming bullshit from his last run, but they’re not going to forget the relentless threats of being annexed.

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      The only way Trump’s actions make any consistent sense as all is as an attempt to ruin the USA and its allies for the benefit of Vladimir Putin. There’s just no other theory that explains all the data points.

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        Yeah. If it was just dementia, stupidity, and narcissism, it wouldn’t benefit Putin almost 100% of the time.

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          Being quite dim and narcissistic, Trump may not be aware that he’s consistently doing Putin’s bidding. If Russia can get intermediaries to put the right words in Trump’s ear, they could play Trump while letting him believe he’s just having his own brilliant ideas.