UPDATED: Trump’s Megalomanic War on Canada, Panama, Greenland

Canada’s Decades Long Nightmare Accelerates–as Trump sees Canada as Gaza Waterfront

UPDATED: BREAKING NEWS: As discussed in this post below, some Canadians HAVE already applied to the Federal Court of Canada to get Trudeau’s narcissistic Prorogation of Parliament set aside. Here is the story from X”

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BREAKING NEWS Today, two Canadians have asked the Federal Court to declare that Prime Minister Trudeau’s decision to prorogue Parliament is unreasonable and must be set aside.  With help from the Justice Centre, applicants David MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos contend that a prorogued Parliament services the interests of the Liberal Party of Canada

@liberal_party and not the interests of Canadians to whom they are responsible. A prorogued Parliament suspends all parliamentary activity and shields the government from democratic accountability.  Lawyer James Manson

@JamesManson6263 stated that this decision “violates the constitutional principles of Parliamentary sovereignty and accountability.” Applicant David MacKinnon likened this decision to tyranny and the withering of our constitutional heritage.  Read the fully story here: https://jccf.ca/canadians-challenge-prime-ministers-decision-to-prorogue-parliament-no-reasonable-justification/… For media inquiries, please contact media@jccf.ca.:”

Never before in the history of Canada have citizens legally challenged the Prime Minister's advice, accepted by the Governor General of Canada, to prorogue Parliament.

"Where it gets tricky…is proroguing Parliament to avoid political trouble. That's really what it comes down… pic.twitter.com/jAC1H5BtyY

— Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (@JCCFCanada) January 8, 2025

@JamesManson6263 addresses the Prime Minister’s January 6 announcement that Parliament will be prorogued, or suspended, until March 24, 2025.”

Greencrow comments: Bravo to all those who worked at warp speed [as Trump would say] to defend Canada from the series of attacks it is taking from Trudeau. Now back to my original post below:

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Trudeau’s Fake Resignation is only 24 hours old and already the ramifications are beginning to penetrate the fuZZy brains of the brainwashed Canadian sheeple. We are left leaderless at the very time in history when our sovereignty has never been more threatened.

The jackass to the south thinks that Canada is just like Puerto Rico…a barren island that can be annexed and kept as a trophy or, worse, treated like Gaza and cleansed of any annoying indigenous resistance. We don’t really know what’s going on in that megalomania brain.

The only hope on the horiZon is the discovery of a British precedent in law where the UK Supreme court ruled not too long ago that Prime Minister Boris Johnson prorogued parliament illegally. Please read the following from an X post by Karl Harrison:

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“Its time to challenge Trudeau in the courts in relation to his unlawful proroguing of our parliament. There is high precedent from the UK Supreme Court which can be used. If we don’t challenge this sort of thing then charlatans will always be happy in high office in Canada.”

Apparently the UK Supreme Court Ruled that Boris Johnson’s prorogation of the UK Parliament was a Justiciable act [aka they could rule on it] The UK Supreme Court found that Johnson’s advise to the Queen to prorogue Parliament was outside the powers of the Prime Minister.

The Court further found that “the prorogation of Parliament did have the effect of frustrating Parliament’s constitutional functions, … As a result the Court quashed the relevant Order in Council which meant the effect of the royal proclamation of prorogation had the legal effect of “a blank piece of paper” and reverted the 2017-19 Parliament into being in session.”

Hallelujah! or, more precisely, Eureka! We have found it! We’ve found the legal tool to get Parliament back into session and not just sit on the sidelines while the jackal Trump and his pittbull media tear Canada to shreds.

Hopefully, this Supreme Court Petition to look at JFT’s narcissistic prorogation of our Parliament will happen immediately if not sooner. Canada needs a Non Confidence Motion and an Election like a man crawling across the Sahara Desert in the blaZing heat needs a drink of water.

Meanwhile both Panama and Greenland/Finland are mounting resistance to Trump’s over-arching megalomania in their directions. Folks. After over a year of the world watching in horror as Trump’s Zionist handlers commit the worst genocide in modern history in Gaza…how he could think ANYONE would want to be part of that outfit is going to be a mystery for the ages. Stay tuned.

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ADDENDUM #1 VERY GOOD OP-ED FROM RT ON THIS ISSUE LAYS IT ALL OUT LIKE A NEAT WAITER:

Anyone who still thinks Trumps threats to annex are just “jokes” is a brainwashed idiot. Here’s why.

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“Here’s why Trump’s talk of annexing Canada and Greenland should not be dismissed The US president-elect’s “shopping cart” of other countries’ properties should worry all American vassals – Op-ed by Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian working at Koc university in Istanbul.

https://rt.com/news/610533-trump-annex-canada-greenland/…

Trump and his team of America’s bluntest and briskest can look funny. Their demands are so bracingly direct; their threats so refreshingly frank. It’s almost as if they are mightily enjoying themselves as they rub in the facts of brute American power: We, the US, are the best-armed, richest mobster family in town, and the new Don is greedier than Scarface and crasser than Tony Soprano!

Europe – buy more overpriced LNG from us or we’ll wreck your economy even more! Canada – just get with the program, any program, really, or we’ll recall that we’d like a land bridge to Alaska, sort of the shape of your state (pardon, country, chuckle, chuckle)! Panama – remember we own you and everything you think you own is ours, too! Or we’ll drop in – literally, with the 82nd Airborne and AC-130 gunships – to remind you (again). And this time we won’t even name it “Operation Just Cause.” “Operation Just Because” will do fine.

Denmark, listen up: You think Greenland is yours, but we know better. It’s really ours, and the only question is whether we do this the nice way or the hard way, because: Important Arctic and bad, bad China and Russia! Just take our word for it. Note, all of these objects of Trump’s bullying are, officially, Washington’s “allies.” In Canada’s case, the rough handling alone has already been enough to, in effect, topple its prime minister: Hapless Justin Trudeau couldn’t save his skin even by a groveling trip to the new boss’s court at Mar-a-Lago. Regime change by trash talk; that’s a new one. And once again, that old lesson: it’s safer to be a respected adversary than a disrespected friend.

Trump’s gripes and demands, in any case, are extremely ill-founded. If the US were a country that had to argue its case, no one would even pay attention. Canada is a sovereign country; the preponderant majority of its 40 million people have no interest in joining the US as its 51st state. Period. The whiny complaints that Trump and his team have made about bad treatment at the Panama Canal don’t withstand scrutiny, as the by-no-means unpatriotic Wall Street Journal has detailed in a podcast: No, the US is not “being ripped off at the Panama Canal;” no, American shippers are not treated worse than others or being price-gouged; and no, the US is not currently paying for the maintenance of the waterway. Instead, after completion of the canal handover in 1999/2000, that has been the task of the Canal Authority, which is, in essence, a business structure. Finally, the Chinese do not have soldiers in the Canal Zone, as Trump has claimed; and, in general, his screams of “China! China!” are as hyperbolic as always.

And Greenland – we’ll get to that in a moment. Yet it would be a grave mistake to underestimate how serious all of this seemingly absurd Trumpist braggadocio is. In general, that is so because the US is not a country in the habit of merely arguing its case. As a political culture, it is, instead, addicted to cheating and violence. That’s why it loves a “rules-based order” – with “rules” no one knows, except in Washington on any given day – and abhors international law.

In particular, it would be unwise to dismiss the Trumpist no-charm-all-harm offensive as just a grab bag of “power moves” to establish dominance and produce leverage. Just, in other words, a lot of ultimately empty noise to play for various political and trade advantages. That is a fashionable but shortsighted interpretation that lacks due diligence.

Things are, actually, not that simple, especially for America’s so-called “allies,” that is, its de facto clients and vassals. To understand why, the case of Greenland is most instructive. But it’s not enough to enumerate the legal rights and illegal claims involved. All that is rather obvious. The US wants to buy Greenland – not for the first time, by the way. Presidents Jackson and Truman had an eye on it as well.

In general, the US has a history not only of conquering and ethnically cleansing what it wants, but also of buying (including forced sales, of course) what it wants. Yet Greenland has belonged to Denmark for more than half a millennium. Denmark is a sovereign state, like the US. In theory, therefore, the US can only ask, but not demand. Denmark has – as we have all learned to repeat for Ukraine – “agency.” And Denmark has said “No” – not for the first time, either. End of story.

In theory. In practice, as so often in history, the legal situation is just the starting point, where things begin to get interesting. For two sets of reasons, one pretty obvious, the other a little less so. Let’s look at the obvious first. As the New York Times has pointed out, Trump is, by deformation professionnelle, a real estate developer. As a real estate tycoon, the other side saying “No” is just an opening bid, a challenge to up the arm twisting and, perhaps, the offer, too.

What it is definitely not is a reason to stop. Greenland looks to him, as he himself has stated, like yet another very desirable piece of property. The reasons for that are, actually, solid enough. Greenland has a strategic location between the thawing Arctic, which is the theater of a new great game of geopolitics currently – literally – heating up. (Let’s just pass over the irony that when US Republicans get greedy enough, they even admit that global warming is real.) And Greenland also features enticing raw material deposits.

That’s why, for instance, the EU has a special agreement with Greenland’s Minerals Resources Authority. So, if Washington takes over under the guise of having to fend off the big bad Russians and Chinese, again, a handsome side effect would be to shaft the hapless, submissive, self-destructive Europeans, again. Profit is nice. But what’s wrong with having a little fun, too? What’s not to love? Except, of course, if we play by international law, what you want is not automatically what you get. You would also have to have a right to it; and there’s the rub again: Washington does not. Yet, that has never stopped it, has it?

Moreover, the US is trying to exploit Denmark’s constitutional fault lines. Almost as if Washington was in the habit of subverting other countries! In this case, the idea is that Greenland has a special status, founded on the 2009 Greenland Self-Government Act, and a very small population of less than 60,000. Maybe they could be induced – by a mix of threats and incentives – to fully secede from the Danish state? And then, of course, be promptly re-attached to Washington, one way or the other, including as, in essence, a protectorate. That is the idea paraded openly by former Trump adviser, Alexander Gray. See how that works?

“Let us help you gain your independence,” Uncle Sam is kindly saying. “And then lose it again. To us.” What an original script. Not. Rest assured, trite as the approach is, Gray is not alone. And finally, here is the less obvious – and most important reason – why especially America’s allies should be very worried about the Greenland move currently underway in the US.

Look at its essence. The US elite is saying three things to Denmark: One, we know and decide who your enemies are (Russia and China, of course); and no, you do not get to challenge that decision, as if you were a genuinely sovereign country. Move two: Once we have defined your enemies, we also tell you that they are enemies of all of us (the West, NATO etc.), and that you have an obligation to contribute to our common defense against them as we – not you – see fit. Move three: We find that you are not doing enough for that defense; and once that is so, we have a right to either force you to pay for our protection or, if you cannot do that, give up your stuff to us.

That is the essence of a recent Fox News interview with another former Trump adviser, Robert O’Brien. You see what this is, right? It’s pure, explicit mafia logic.

No more frills, no more sugar-coating. You may say, so what’s new? Isn’t that just the usual Trump effect: it’s basically what the US always does but without the sweet-talking? True. But still, there is something special in the boldness with which this doctrine is now displayed in public. Its general applicability should worry every American “ally.”

Take Germany, for instance. For years now, the “Zeitenwende” Germans have made a point of sucking up to the US by flogging themselves over not yet doing enough to build up their military. That narrative, so willingly, masochistically endorsed by them might well come back to bite them in the behind. Imagine Trump one day saying: “You know what, Berlin? You are right: you are not doing enough to defend us all against Russia and China. We, the US feel ripped off, again. And once that is so, pay us more or, you know, we really think that special-status ‘free state’ of Bavaria you have there is far too pretty to be left to your insufficient care.” Absurd? Absolutely.

Only, tell me why that means it’s not possible. But then again, current Western European “elites” are so used to selling out, maybe they won’t even mind.”

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I agree with everything in the above posted op-ed by Tarik Cyril Amar

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/tarik-cyril-amar/