Okay so he's legit trying to strongarm an up to now friendly country into annexation. Crazy stuff - ThreadSky

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ludmirdevotee.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Okay so he's legit trying to strongarm an up to now friendly country into annexation. Crazy stuff

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President Trump declares that the US will no longer provide military protection unless Canada becomes the “51st state”

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ludmirdevotee.bsky.social•8 days ago

All this effort into bullying Canadians into becoming US nationals, not a peep for political equality for Puerto Rico. And then Republicans act offended when we call them racist

oldmikie.bsky.social•8 days ago

Canada is going to react badly.

mgraalum.bsky.social•8 days ago

The Emperor Justinian Presidency

ludmirdevotee.bsky.social•8 days ago

Really wish I hadn't fallen asleep for most of the History of Byzantium podcast

mgraalum.bsky.social•8 days ago

The gist is that allied states that saw themselves as Roman and part of the Roman world, stopped seeing themselves as Roman because Justinian wages war on them to bring them under his direct rule.

It was the end of the Roman world but not the state itself.

ludmirdevotee.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ah okay I thought that happened later, after the Muslim invasions

mgraalum.bsky.social•8 days ago

A century earlier.

There was also a volcanic winter and a bubonic plague.

catharsis23.bsky.social•8 days ago

Trump learned geopolitics playing Civ with Elon Musk during Bidens term

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