This is a screw job on your ally and neighbor, Canada. Canada is the largest steel exporter to the US. Also the largest importer of steel from the US (with a $2B surplus in favor of the US). I guess we’ll have to slap a 25% tariff on US steel entering Canada.
Does it improve US security to piss off your allies? Does it decrease US security if some of the materials you depend on come from allies like Canada? Like we’d ever refuse the US access to these supplies in a time of war?
So it’s a net “wash” between Canada and the US, in your own words.
In essense, you just told the world, “No Harm, No Foul.”
I’m with you.
If one were of a paranoid mindset, one might even ask if there is some correlation between our President’s tariff declaration, hurting our ally and neighbor, Canada, and Putin’s latest pronouncements on his superior defense/offense capabilities. With several other tariff articles posted at FR, at least one of them needs to be at Breaking News. This is an important story.