ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

a-method-in-it:

apersnicketylemon:

I don’t think people outside the US understand something really important. I know that Trump is likely distracting from something else when he discusses invading Canada and Greenland and annexing Canada and using military might to take Greenland.

I know there’s a chance it won’t happen.

But I don’t actually have the luxury of just dismissing him outright. I don’t have the luxury of not taking that threat seriously. The outside world doesn’t have that ability. Not because we’re stupidly getting mad at something we shouldn’t, but because he’s about to be the leader of the USA, and has made a direct and blatant threat to our national security.

All of Nato is indeed getting ready for the USA to fulfil that threat. Canada is ready for him to fulfill that threat. We’re starting to prepare to increase guarding our border against the USA. Greenland and Denmark are preparing for a military invasion and incursion.

I see so many posts going around telling people ‘learn when to be mad and when to laugh!’ and I think that’s probably important for inside the US. But it is meaningless to the countries he has directly issued serious threats against. We just do not have that luxury. We have no choice but to seriously consider him invading us. You invading us.

We don’t want to take it seriously. I’d love to laugh about it. But my safety, country, life, and world have been directly threatened. That isn’t something we can laugh at. And maybe he is distracting from something else. But I think you guys need to take those threats more seriously too. Because if he really does try it, he’s starting World War 3. And that really isn’t a joke. We’re really gearing up for it outside the USA. And I don’t think some of y'all understand that.

It’s easy in retrospect to look back and see what was distraction/ridiculous/trolling and what was serious. the problem is that it’s very, very difficult to figure that our while it’s happening — and the consequences for dismissing some things are severe.

If Trump actually invaded Greenland, it would fundamentally rewrite the entire geopolitical order, likely permanently. And yes, it’s so outlandish that it probably is just a stunt — but that small chance that he means it? That’s not a chance anyone should be taking.

Maybe even more important to understand: There often isn’t even a meaningful distinction between the real things and the distraction. Not really.

If they get enough push back for one of their stupid ideas, they will often abandon it; does that mean it was always a stunt? Or does that mean that the trial balloon crashed?

Things are about to get real chaotic and real exhausting. Take breaks; take care of yourself and each other; but when in doubt, take things seriously.

Here’s the thing: it would be absolute career suicide for him to invade and tariff Canada. We have too many allies, too much land, and too much pride and drive for that (do you really want to invade the war crime country?). Not only would it impact Canadians, but tariffing our goods would also impact Americans. You know this, I know this.

But that doesn’t mean we aren’t preparing for the worst. The premiers got together last week to set up a plan of retaliatory tariffs if his go through. There’s plans and efforts to beef up our border security. His threats may be jokes, but we’re still preparing in case we need to.

This isn’t the world I imagined when my kiddo was born. I only hope Trump doesn’t fully bring on World War III this time.