Trump claims Canadians want to be the 51 US state. Canadian dopers any thoughts?

[Smapti]

@Der_Trihs

And I think it probably will.

As you said eight years ago.

@Der_Trihs

I think he’ll cause multiple wars; both directly by his order, and indirectly by his incompetent flailing about. I also expect at last one and possibly more uses of nuclear weapons. Mecca seems a likely target, to “punish Muslims”; also Tehran since Iran isn’t going to roll over for him. Mexico City is also a likely target is he presses ahead on his stupid wall and they refuse his demands that they pay for it.

@Der_Trihs

The only important differences between the Nazis and the Republicans is that the Nazis had a much weaker military and lacked nuclear weapons.

@Der_Trihs

The effects of Trump and the Republicans are likely to be global and so negative that no positive result can make up for them. A new Great Depression, widespread wars and the likely use of nuclear weapons or even a full-on nuclear war.

It’s not going to happen. Trump is too much of a chickenshit to start a war where the enemy can hit him back and he knows that dead Americans coming home in coffins will make him look bad. Any attempt by him to launch nuclear weapons would promptly result in the end of his presidency, and possibly also his life at the same time.