It is diverting to the observer looking for something bleakly entertaining in the current political chaos, that Trump’s policies are not only splitting apart the white world, but also the white settler world. 

By far the least crazy of the man’s policies is the integration of Canada into the USA. This would represent the rolling of one murderous white settler enterprise into another. But we are invited to think that this is akin to the US looking to absorb an actual nation state. It is a strange matter of historical contingency that Canada exists as a separate entity to the US. The cultivated differences between them are structurally important, serving to naturalise both entities, but are in themselves extremely trivial. They both have Thanksgiving but on different dates. They have the same coffee chains, but Tim Horton’s is much bigger in Canada. And together, famously, they make up the World in the World Series of a sport that is not in fact played anywhere else on the planet. The effect of these differences is to make it seem that they are neighbouring nations, such as one finds in other parts of the world; posing next to each other helps these settler enterprises to imitate nation states.

The USA and Canada are substantially more the same thing than England and Scotland are, for example, but the Eternal Undivided Union of the latter pair is meant to be a given, whereas the essential similarity of the former pair must be denied. In any case we are meant to believe that this is a feint on Trump’s part, unlike the man’s obsession with poor Kalaallit Nunaat, colonial name: Greenland. In this case the actual Greenlandic Inuit people are of no interest to a global media that will soon grow bored of having to cover the autonomous territory—at first it has the thrill of exoticism, but after that, journalists will be fed up at having such an inconsequential place detaining them when they would rather write about the same handful of countries over and over again—but this does seem like a more likely case for US colonisation.

How funny to see the Danes protest about the colonial designs upon their colony! Greenland, like other sad imperial relics (see the North East of Ireland or the constituent countries and special municipalities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean), manages to float free of the standard vocabulary of the International Order of nation states. Reverting to the straightforward language of colonial status would at least bring some clarity. Bring back the Dominions! So it is that this integral part of Denmark, being one of the three constituent parts of the Kingdom (the others are the Faroe Islands and…Denmark), is outside the EU despite all its citizens being EU citizens.

This breakdown of the white world will elevate certain of its Absurdities to the point where they must collapse. But the white elites know one thing: violence. We must expect that their response to humiliation will be the gun, the tank, the bomb: for who will laugh at them when the nuclear weapons are unleashed?