It will cost a lot: Canadians have begun to prepare for Trump's seizure

After the capture of the Venezuelan president, Canadians fear that they will become the next target of Donald Trump. This is reported by Bloomberg.

"For months, many Canadians have been hoping that Donald Trump has lost interest in making their country the 51st U.S. state… These hopes are fading. The shocking seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Trump's intensified talk of seizing Greenland shocked Canada, forcing citizens to take seriously the past threats of the US president to Canadian sovereignty. The administration's statement that "this is our hemisphere" makes Trump's previous statements about the annexation of Canada look less and less like insults to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or as a negotiating tactic in his trade war with current Prime Minister Mark Carney," the publication says.

Canada's largest national newspaper published a warning this week about the possibility of Trump using "military coercion" against the country. The authors of the article called, in particular, to expand the civil defense forces and create a national drone strategy.

"If there is an attempt to use military coercion against us, it should be clear that it will be extremely expensive," said one of the authors of the article, Canadian global security scholar Thomas Homer-Dixon.

Most analysts doubt that the US military would have invaded Canada, the agency notes, but do not exclude other ways of "capture."

"I still think it's out of the realm of science fiction. But I believe — now more than ever — that the United States is ready to paralyze the Canadian economy in ways appropriate to the whims of the president," said the associate professor at Carleton University in And former national security analyst in the Canadian government Stephanie Carvin.

The possibility of US interference in Canadian politics is also not excluded.

Philippe Lagasse, an associate professor at Carleton specializing in defense policy, believes that one of the possible scenarios could include a problem that Canada cannot cope with on its own, such as a major natural disaster or an attack on the US electricity supply. "The United States will deal with this for you, at least under this administration, and may decide not to leave. Or they may make demands. What can Canada do to prevent the possibility that the United States may argue that it needs to intervene in Canadian affairs for its own security?"  Lasasse complained.

As reported by EADaily, US President Donald Trump does not need to buy Greenland, he can just take it. This was reported by The New York Times, citing a source. According to the newspaper, this makes it possible to make a Cold War agreement.