>When Mr. Trump began calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Canada’s “governor” – a profound sign of disrespect from a fellow G7 leader – Canada, a forlorn target, simply swallowed the insult. When he started musing about Canada becoming the 51st state – first in jest, and then suddenly with more sobriety – Canadian leaders went on American television to defend our sovereignty. Our friends were conspicuously absent on set (so too were they, notably, in response to Mr. Trump’s threats to annex Greenland), leaving us to defend our own autonomy, like a fledgling 19th-century colony.
>No doubt our allies are similarly appalled by the unprovoked and unjustified economic pressure that Mr. Trump is levying on a supposed friend, as well as the predatory expansionism his administration has adopted, so far just in rhetoric. But they are mostly standing on the sidelines, censuring in whispers, lest the mercantilist, mercurial President turns his ire their way.
>That is the inescapable reason Canada now finds itself principally by its lonesome as Mr. Trump twiddles our economy between his fingers like a pencil: No one wants to be next.
Really great writing from Urback. It’s so absurd Canadian officials will go to American outlets being the only ones to decry the sheer insanity of Trump’s rhetoric, and even the most progressive Americans and left-leaning media outlets will just sit there like “oh, you want to fight against Trump? That pales in effectiveness to my current strategy, being a ‘resist lib'” and then not resist anything.
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They were announced on saturday night lmao, European civil services are enjoying their weekend. Give them a bit of time before making any judgements
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Ronald Reagan:
* “Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies.We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.”*
*”We’re in the same boat with our trading partners. If one partner shoots a hole in the boat, does it make sense for the other one to shoot another hole in the boat? Some say, yes, and call that getting tough. Well, I call it stupid.”*
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>When Mr. Trump began calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Canada’s “governor” – a profound sign of disrespect from a fellow G7 leader – Canada, a forlorn target, simply swallowed the insult. When he started musing about Canada becoming the 51st state – first in jest, and then suddenly with more sobriety – Canadian leaders went on American television to defend our sovereignty. Our friends were conspicuously absent on set (so too were they, notably, in response to Mr. Trump’s threats to annex Greenland), leaving us to defend our own autonomy, like a fledgling 19th-century colony.
>No doubt our allies are similarly appalled by the unprovoked and unjustified economic pressure that Mr. Trump is levying on a supposed friend, as well as the predatory expansionism his administration has adopted, so far just in rhetoric. But they are mostly standing on the sidelines, censuring in whispers, lest the mercantilist, mercurial President turns his ire their way.
>That is the inescapable reason Canada now finds itself principally by its lonesome as Mr. Trump twiddles our economy between his fingers like a pencil: No one wants to be next.
Really great writing from Urback. It’s so absurd Canadian officials will go to American outlets being the only ones to decry the sheer insanity of Trump’s rhetoric, and even the most progressive Americans and left-leaning media outlets will just sit there like “oh, you want to fight against Trump? That pales in effectiveness to my current strategy, being a ‘resist lib'” and then not resist anything.
They were announced on saturday night lmao, European civil services are enjoying their weekend. Give them a bit of time before making any judgements
Ronald Reagan:
* “Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies.We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.”*
*”We’re in the same boat with our trading partners. If one partner shoots a hole in the boat, does it make sense for the other one to shoot another hole in the boat? Some say, yes, and call that getting tough. Well, I call it stupid.”*