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DBoon

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Wed Mar 12, 2025, 12:00 PM Mar 12

CBC: The U.S. has covertly destabilized nations. With Canada, it's being done in public

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-annexation-destabilizing-canada-1.7479890

Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats.

And they told CBC News that the most potent weapon wielded by the Trump administration to advance the cause of annexation would likely not be the intelligence agencies directed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

"I would regard Mr. Musk as a problem," said Ward Elcock, who headed CSIS for a decade including during the 9/11 attacks and also served as national security adviser. "I think that's on a number of fronts."

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has worked to destabilize many governments and nations in the past, using methods as mundane as corruption and as drastic as assassination, but the former spy chiefs say a campaign aimed at Canada would likely rely less on cloak-and-dagger tactics and more on social media — such as the Elon Musk-owned X platform.
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CBC: The U.S. has covertly destabilized nations. With Canada, it's being done in public (Original Post) DBoon Mar 12 OP
Our Elbows are up!! Canada Kid Mar 12 #1
Yep. Watch that Nazi motherfucker dalton99a Mar 12 #2

Canada Kid

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1. Our Elbows are up!!
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 03:27 PM
Mar 12

With all this ridiculous tariff garbage blowing around the US public seems quite unaware just how tentative your ability to have a job, afford to buy food, to put clothes on your backs, how critically in the balance your lives are in the coming weeks. This Democratic Underground forum has almost no mention of the tariff war caused by Trump and his gang. You all seem to be unaware or ignorant of the ramifications of what is taking place between Canada and the US. The strong possibility of your power being cut at any time doesn't seem to be an issue. The cutting off of oil, gas, steel, coal, all quite possible, is not even lightly mentioned by any of your members. YOU HAD ALL BETTER WAKE UP FAST!!! Stupid Musk losing money with his crappy cars is not a issue! Your lives are being chopped up, you are all just mere pawns in trump's takeover of your economy, and by extention, your country. PULL YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSES!!!

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