Seems it was a waste of our time and money. If anything, Canada should be asking the USA to increase their own border security as guns and drugs come into Canada at a much larger scale. And why even have a fentanyl czar etc if none of our actions will stop the tariffs? This was never about the border or drugs but Trump said jump and Canada asked How high?
This isn’t true. Canada re-affirmed that it was going to spend money that had already been allocated and agreed to join a task force that was a Canadian proposal to begin with. The only new thing was appointing a fentanyl “czar,” which is insignificant. Mexico similarly gave up nothing new. Let’s not help Trump spin his failures into victories.
Even the “czar” was not really new. We just put a name to that title to make them happy.
We really need to avoid the use of Russian ideology now though. Things have gotten so much worse.
Trump wants to do an aluminum deal with Russia to take the pressure off the damage done by his aluminum tariffs on Canada. He is literally aligning with Russia to attack Canada.
What a world.
They also just made a deal with Belarus to allow them to export potash which is currently almost entirely supplied by Canada:
It’s incredible, really. Trump is single-handedly rewriting the world alliances so that former allies are becoming enemies, who are now relying on former enemies to become allies that look to take advantage of each other.
At the way things are going, maybe the US will be the next member of BRICS.
Totally. But I think a better way of thinking about it is that autocrats and oligarchs are collaborating to destroy global democracy and entrench their power as a global class. I don’t think this generation of autocrat cares about nation or country the way they used to. Trump very much views Putin and the Russian oligarchs as the same kind of thing as himself and as having the same interests.
Yeah, we delayed it by a month without really doing anything. All his “demands” were met superficially.
It’s Canada benefiting from the money that was already allocated or was that done in the first place to appease the States?
If it wasn’t for Canada’s benefit then we definately should reallocate it if the tariffs actually happen this time.