It is widely reported that Canadian PM Carney has snuggled up to China’s Xi, trying to get even with Trump for past slights. This wasn’t wise. The U.S. cannot have a Chinese ally across our mutual 5500 mile undefended border.
I’d think this recent action has moved the notion of a U.S. invasion of Canada from “inconceivable” to “remotely possible.” Further Canadian involvement with China conceivably could make it "likely," as Ukraine discovered.
I wonder if Carney's notion is for Trump to experience empathy with how Putin felt about Ukraine, before invading.
Closer to home, imagine how Canada's Hong Kong Chinese immigrants feel about their new government making nice with the CCP, the tender mercies of which they fled. Might they choose to vote Conservative?
Later ... Trump, at least on the surface, says he has no problem with Canada's China deal. The Hill quotes him thus,
That’s OK. That’s what he should be doing. I mean, it’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that.
One possibility: Carney did what he did to p*ss off Trump, and Trump was robbing him of that pleasure by not showing irritation.
The alternative is that Trump deals with China, and feels other national leaders should do the same. That Carney praised Xi is no more than what Trump does when two meet to deal.
It's in DJT's negotiating style to praise the other party in a negotiation, he appears to believe it nets him better terms and he may be correct. Perhaps he views Carney's praise of Xi in that highly transactional (i.e., insincere) light.
