The territorial gift forced on Canada — Experialism, and the threat to bomb his own nation

pivotal · background, the Reconfiguration

• When: background, immediately following the Concavity Cabinet; the Reconfiguration/"redemisement" of the northeast
• What: Gentle presses the toxified northeast on a refusing Canada ("HAVE SOME TERRITORY" / "BUT I INSIST"), the coercion escalating until — in an "insane pout" over Canada's reluctance — Gentle threatens to detonate his own inverted silo missiles and irradiate Canada with the ATHSCME "hell-fans." This is the "catastatic" turn: the U.S. exporting its own poisoned ground as a "gift" — a Secretary's on-the-nose gloss runs "A kind of ecological gerrymandering?" — the beginning of the Great Concavity/Convexity. The reconfigured map shows a "concavity" bitten out of the northeast, now Canadian red. The vocabulary is itself managed: "Territorial Reconfiguration" is the officially spun term; "Great Concavity" and "Grand Convexité" are U.S./Canadian street argot the media genericized (n177).