MSNBC Guest Mocks Americans and Warns U.S. Could Start War — Like With Guns — With Canada
MSNBC’s Katy Tur listened as Canadian journalist Stephen Marche mocked Americans and warned that his country and the United States could be headed for war on Tuesday.
In fact, Tur actually prompted Marche to address the topic by bringing up his latest piece for The Atlantic, which raises the prospect of the outbreak of an armed conflict between the U.S. and Canada.
“Stephen, let me ask you about the article you wrote for The Atlantic — and I sent this around to my friends. Just the very fact that it was published I think is surprising, that we can have a conversation that is serious about what a war with Canada would look like,” mused the host. “Explain why it’s no longer unthinkable.”
“Well, because Donald Trump makes us think it, right? I mean, he talks about annexing us on a regular basis. I mean, somewhere around 2% of the American population actually want to do this, but you know, at this point in its history, you know the American people can obviously be convinced of anything, right?” answered Marche. “And already you see numbers of Republicans who consider Canada an enemy to be growing are. And, you know, I think when countries are in constitutional crisis, and when their legal system starts to fall apart, as America’s legal system is falling apart, violence against neighboring countries is a very common, to me it’s very intimately tied with this talk about being a third term president, right? That’s exactly-, that’s out of the playbook of authoritarian governments around the world. And so Canada really does need to think about protecting ourselves from the United States, and making sure that we’re not just a snack.”
Tensions between the historical allies have escalated since Trump took the oath of office in January, as the president has kicked off his second term by implementing sweeping tariffs on America’s northern neighbor, as well as arguing that it should become the U.S.’s “51st state.”
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