Canadians are not prepared

Canada is a lot like like teenage America's little brother. It thinks about America quite a bit. It looks up to it - America gets all the coolest technology, and products, first. What happens in America often goes on to happen in Canada, ten years later.

Overall, it sees America as a really important part of its life.

However, America does not see Canada in the same way. It doesn't think about Canada almost at all, and when it does, it sees it in a very insignificant way. Domitable. Influenceable. And subject to its will.

The administration in the US is almost unimaginable to most Canadians. Canadian culture is mild, gentle, humane, and safe. Everyone has healthcare. Most people have housing. There are safety nets. There are protections. The things that bother people are smaller things ("My Amazon box is late!" "I didn't get into my first choice college.")

The US is comparatively lawless, cruel, inhumane, and harsh. There are few safety nets. Inequality is severe. People can lose their house due to medical bills, starve without food aid, or die because their medications are too expensive. And that is getting worse.

The Canadians that I know are not prepared for the fact that the US is not going to negotiate with Canada in good faith.

It does not care how negotiations go at all, because it plans on taking what it wants from Canada later.

There is no friendship there. Just like how a teenager doesn't see a five year old little brother as their friend, the US doesn't care about past benevolence. It doesn't care that "everyone likes Canada". It only cares about what Canada can offer it now.

This is important to understand because we are in the middle of stage 7 in the US.

And in stage 8, wars of international aggression start. So Canada needs to be ready, prepared, and on guard, because it doesn't matter how polite it is: the US means business when it plans to annex it.