As I say, I fear Trump sees Canada like Putin sees Ukraine. Except Trump evidently also sees Ukraine like Putin sees Ukraine -- it's clear that the plan is to carve it up between them.

So the idea is force Canada’s hand with retaliatory tariffs, shock Americans with a major recession, flood the right-wing media apparatus with disinformation in in order to convince the base that Canada is responsible, then ultimately use the ensuing anger as justification for annexation?