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Less than 24 hours, as it happened.

This would cost so many american lives. It will never happen.

American soldiers aren't going to magically fare better than the Israeli ones. They might be better trained and more disciplined (relatively) but they're never going to be able to handle Hamas popping out of holes

US Private Military Contractors are already on the ground in Gaza manning the checkpoints between the north and south as Palestinians return to the north, so why not go one step further and put US boots on the ground proper?

I hate everything right now...

Libs and western "leftists" in the near future:

1. once it starts, (correctly) claim trump is doing genocide

2. when the following Dem just continues doing the same 4 years from now, say it's cool and good that America is helping Gaza rebuild 🙏

trump-netanyahu meeting about future of Gaza

isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

He suggested it could be the "riviera" of the middle east. He also went on about how great the ethnic displacement will be, the Palestinians will be in a great beautiful wonderful community. They won't have to live in Gaza, which he called a hellhole after describing in detail the horrors ordered directly by the man standing next to him. One of the worst things I've never seen

I trust the Resistance knows the US and "israel" are planning something big for them in the coming months and that they are ready for it.

Not going to seriously happen unless the US suffers a massive L like Ansarallah sinking an aircraft carrier and broadcasting a live feed of the aircraft carrier slowly sinking into the ocean. If that happens, annexation of Canada for the sake of restoring national pride is far more likely.

Less than 1%, imo. It's already effectively the case that Canada is a US protectorate, and I personally doubt that they'd genuinely want to try and make their ownership official when the drawbacks of having to manage that territory are fairly substantial. American bureaucracy is already in severe decay, and the whole promoted image of American foreign interventions is that they, well, intervene, not invade and annex.

That being said, I could see it happening as a desperate gamble for American capitalists, besieged and drowned by Chinese innovation and pushed out of Asia and Africa, to try and slow the decline of their monopoly position in like 20-30 years. But I don't think the benefits outweigh the costs right now. Their empire is certainly in the decay phase but there's still quite a long way down to go before they'd truly have to stoop to the depths of nakedly occupying and cannabalizing their own allies, versus the more "delicate" approach of Biden blowing up their pipelines and creating massive wars to ensure obedience from Europe.

If there is an annexation within the next decade or so, it'll probably be a coup and look very business-as-usual, to the point where popular discontent may not even last; it probably won't look like American tanks driving towards Ottawa in columns. Beyond that timeframe, perhaps an annexation would have to be more forceful as America's position would have declined relative to China and others'.

Nothing ever happens

I think Trump is gonna keep trying to get it to happen, but I dont think anything will come from it other than a lot of disgruntled canadians.

About the same as the odds of Calexit

There's been a bunch of North Korean military equipment spotted within Russia and on the frontlines (ballistic missiles, artillery in long range self propelled guns and multiple rocket launch systems, and air defence systems), and apparently Ukraine managed to capture two North Korean POWs, though obviously that can't be fully verified. So there is some North Korean presence in Kursk, Russia.

But the stories of thousands of North Korean hordes of men storming the trenches in Kursk, enemy at the gates style, and thousands of North Koreans KIA, is just complete nonsense. Most of the North Korean troops in Kursk, as admitted to by even Ukraine's head of intelligence, are artillery and rocket troops, so they won't be at the line of contact. Only a small contingent of the North Korean troops would be there, if they're doing any fighting on the frontlines at all right now. Which is why there's so little evidence from Ukraine of North Korean troops outside of those two POWs they captured, because of the above mentioned reasons.

trump may be serious but its never going to happen. He already missed his best opportunity, Gazans are returning north to whats left of their homes yet their attitude appears remarkably steadfast despite the devastation. If years of relentless isntraeli bombardment didn't force them to leave no "deal" trump comes up with is going to convince them to just abandon their land after all this.

Furthermore, the Egyptian government views a Palestinian refugee crisis as an existential threat. Their fragile nation cannot handle a million more destitute, radicalized refugees and they also have the massive war in Sudan to worry about in that regard. Jordan is deeper in the US pocket but it makes even less sense logistically

Even if he is, unless he invades Gaza with American troops there’s nothing he can do about it. Palestinians and the neighboring Arab countries won’t accept mass transfer.

American invasion into Gaza would not be accepted by much of the world. It would be like the Iraq War times ten.

Worst he can realistically do is return to the status quo of war under Biden and revoke the ceasefire

Every American administration has been "serious" about forcibly removing the Palestinians from Gaza and transplanting them in Jordan. That's always been the plan. Ever since the creation of Israel, the fate reserved for the Palestinians (in the minds of Israelis and the dominant world power at the time, first the British and then the USA) has been the same fate the Native Americans faced. Jordan and parts of Egypt, were/are intended to serve the same role as Native American reservations serve in the US, for surviving and displaced Palestinians. Trump is just saying the quiet part out loud there. I think Biden, when his brain turned to pudding, also said something about that by accident.

The question is if it's realistic and feasible to do it, and to do it now. That question will be answered in the coming months. Trump is set to meet with Netanyahu and the King of Jordan this week. So then we'll get our first real answers.

I recommend you look at what Norman Finkelstein has been saying and sadly he has been consistently correct about the developments so far. Yes you should be worried.

IMO as he says Gaza was already going to face a huge challenge rebuilding and with US troops being directly involved it means even more restrictions on aid, I fear even more they'll push a narrative of aiding Hamas and "harming our troops" when anyone tries to provide aid.

As it stands right now Gaza is unlivable or barely livable, US troops on the ground likely only makes this even more certain, yes you should be worried. What matters in Gaza is the destruction of basic infrastructure, the lack of food and medicine etc. If the US troops allow this situation to get worse the population will have to flee, its sad but you should be worried this is a possible scenario.