Trump suggests the tariffs on Canada will end once they become the 51st state

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Trump attacking Canada would trigger WW3. That's not to say he definitely won't do it but it does mean he will not have successfully annexed anything by that point since there would be a hot war going on.

You know the sad thing here is? I disagree with you. I think it won't trigger world war 3 because the US is far too powerful for any of the Western nations to attack directly. They'll just close off all trade with the US and go it alone instead, leaving the North and South American continents to fend for themselves.

America is a nuclear power with the strongest military in the world by magnitudes. There will be no hot war with them by their former allies, and obviously China/Russia won't join in.

The other reason I don't believe it'll trigger WW3 is because China wants the world economy functioning (with them at the top instead of the US) and Russia is literally not strong enough to attack the modern parts of Europe and never will be.

If anything I think Trump being in power removes WW3 from the table. He won't protect Taiwan (one of the possible triggers for world war 3), he won't protect Europe (another trigger), and nobody will attack the US (the third and final trigger).

The part where this gets scary however is the prospect of, in a few years, the US starting to sell military hardware technology to Russia. It wouldn't cause WW3 immediately but give Russia's industrial complex a couple of decades with the know-how of the US's military technology and that gap between Europe and them gets eliminated, and at that point Russia does become a legitimate threat.
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