"It's so perfect as a great and cherished state. Keeping, 'Oh, Canada,' the national anthem, I love it. I think it's great. Keep it. But it'll be for the state."
I'm sure Ontario, Alberta, British Colombia ... will all be happy to lose their provincial legislatures for one State House. No local representation. All provincial systems of trade destroyed.
Yeah, this is the same sort of unhinged "they're not a real country, they're like little children that need to be taken care of" bullshit that Putin's spewed about Ukraine over the years.
The thing that really concerns me is that it's not just Putin. The Russian population as a whole fell right in line with it. And so, too, I fear the American population might. They just don't understand the utter visceral rage Canadians are feeling about this treatment right now. They're treating this like yet another goofy dumb thing Trump is saying.