"According to a recent report prepared for the New North American Initiative at the University of Calgary, only 31 per cent of Americans surveyed in the spring believe the bilateral relationship between Canada and the U.S. is negative, compared to 81 per cent of Canadians. Roughly eight per cent of Americans think Canada poses a major economic challenge to the U.S., whereas 77 per cent of Canadians think the U.S. poses a major threat to us.
Canada is fighting for its sovereignty. Americans are fighting for… more expensive cans of Coke? (Coca-Cola imports some of its aluminum for its cans from Canada, which is now subject to a 50-per-cent tariff.) Higher-priced groceries? (Though Mr. Trump recently got spooked by the high price of beef and announced he would temporarily lower tariffs, which angered American cattle producers.) Americans are fighting for… Canada to get its fentanyl crisis under control? To stop illegal immigration? To control wildfire smoke? To fix the trade deficit? Americans don’t know, because there is no logical, satisfactory answer. The impetus for all of this is Mr. Trump’s bizarre, lifelong fidelity to the concept of tariffs, which is a silly reason for sacrifice, and a bad reason to fight a war. You can’t rouse a country to coddle one man’s ego."
Follow up:
Confirmed that Republican legislatures in Indiana and Missouri (not confirmed if Trump had a position on it) cut funding.
Robert Pape (University of Chicago) nails it.
The only winner is China?
There are probably others, but they are likely the biggest beneficiary of Trump’s tantrum against Canada.
The second part of his answer was not reassuring..
Invading Canada would be ‘preposterous,’ U.S. commander says at Indo-Pacific military meeting
The question was “needlessly emotional,” Adm. Paparo said, but he added, “I follow the orders of the president.”
“Preposterous, but we’ll do it” pretty well sums up the past two years.
