Of all the things Trump has done this is probably the most beffudling.
Canada is, geopolitically speaking, the perfect neighbor for the USA to have.
And he is willing to throw it all away because…?
Pongzz on
Incredible blunder by Trump. And it’s made all the more frustrating by just how completely preventable it was. None of this ever had to happen. Hope this country, and its voters, get everything coming to it
OkEntertainment1313 on
> “The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.”
I get that I’m a Conservative, but can anybody argue the good-faith merits to support this prediction? Is Canada going to physically dismantle infrastructure between us and America to reduce trade? Would the dismantling of our integrated auto sector (#2 export at 19%) not just achieve the same destruction that Trump is threatening with tariffs? Is the federal government going to ask the private sector in the long run to defer from business opportunities in America? Did free trade not make both of our countries abundantly wealthier? Is Ottawa going to signal a withdrawal of NORAD? Is Canada going to somehow become more independently secure, in spite of the fact that we are *hopin* by 2040 to have grown to a smaller military than we had in 1963, in spite of our population being larger by a factor of 29M people?
I sincerely do not understand how Canada has a dramatic pivot away from our relationship with the US when the empirical factors that intertwined us in the first place are going to remain in the long run.
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Of all the things Trump has done this is probably the most beffudling.
Canada is, geopolitically speaking, the perfect neighbor for the USA to have.
And he is willing to throw it all away because…?
Incredible blunder by Trump. And it’s made all the more frustrating by just how completely preventable it was. None of this ever had to happen. Hope this country, and its voters, get everything coming to it
> “The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.”
I get that I’m a Conservative, but can anybody argue the good-faith merits to support this prediction? Is Canada going to physically dismantle infrastructure between us and America to reduce trade? Would the dismantling of our integrated auto sector (#2 export at 19%) not just achieve the same destruction that Trump is threatening with tariffs? Is the federal government going to ask the private sector in the long run to defer from business opportunities in America? Did free trade not make both of our countries abundantly wealthier? Is Ottawa going to signal a withdrawal of NORAD? Is Canada going to somehow become more independently secure, in spite of the fact that we are *hopin* by 2040 to have grown to a smaller military than we had in 1963, in spite of our population being larger by a factor of 29M people?
I sincerely do not understand how Canada has a dramatic pivot away from our relationship with the US when the empirical factors that intertwined us in the first place are going to remain in the long run.