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?
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.
With the stuff he’s been saying this week, he’s definitely treating Putin as role model. Hell, he already mentioned trying to rewrite US laws to be able to get a third term.