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Canada’s parochial panic about Trump’s America is ridiculous
The Hill ^ | 03/10/2025 | Andrew Latham

Posted on 03/10/2025 7:40:05 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

In his recent address before Congress, President Trump delivered a clear and unflinching message: The U.S. will no longer squander its power on utopian projects or endless commitments to a fading rules-based international order.

Instead, his administration will focus on hard-nosed realism, prioritizing national interests, blunting the ambitions of revisionist powers and shoring up America’s defenses.

This is not a vision for a new Cold War but a pivot to a grand strategy of restraint — a shift long overdue and one that will inevitably reshape the contours of global power.

There is a growing, almost hysterical, strain of thought in Canadian foreign policy commentary that insists that America has abandoned the respect and goodwill that defines the Canada-U.S. relationship — that the U.S. has given up on the world we have long known and that Canada and its allies may ultimately even have to “defend” themselves against it.

This argument is not just wrong — it is a caricature of serious strategic thinking. It reflects an astonishing degree of parochialism, a simplistic reading of world affairs and an anachronistic understanding of both the actual international order and U.S. foreign policy discourse.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: america; canadas; panic; parochial; ridiculous; trumps
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Canada needs to stop whining
1 posted on 03/10/2025 7:40:05 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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China just dropped a HUGE tariff on Canada, and not one protest, no cleared shelves, no whining speeches by their politicians...

They are happy to roll over on command for China, just so long as America continues to roll over for the entire planet.

2 posted on 03/10/2025 7:43:04 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Canada is not our friend. They’ve sent as many illegal aliens into America as Mexico has. Now that the joint is being run by a communist, we’re going to have to build a wall up north to keep the illegal alien invaders with their fentanyl and human traffickers out.


3 posted on 03/10/2025 7:46:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Fight fascist bureaucracy! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

America has abandoned the respect and goodwill that defines the Canada-U.S. relationship —

good will and respect when it goes thier way


4 posted on 03/10/2025 7:50:27 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Canada has become a ridiculous country. And they’re in the process of self-replacing via mass immigration.


5 posted on 03/10/2025 7:51:51 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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The newly "elected" interim Prime Minister, Marx Carney, is a globalist tool. His job is to attempt to artificially fracture the relationship between Canada and the US as much as possible. Trying, yet again, to further the narrative that Trump is 'literally Hitler', a 'Mad King'.

If the "free" Canadians had any sense they would rise up against this installed puppet, en masse, and overthrow their tyrannical government. Then establish a true free constitutional republic as America's northern neighbor.

6 posted on 03/10/2025 7:53:23 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BTTT


7 posted on 03/10/2025 7:54:00 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Teacher317

​China has recently imposed retaliatory tariffs on certain Canadian imports in response to Canada’s earlier levies on Chinese goods. The specific tariffs are as follows:​

100% Tariff: Applied to Canadian rapeseed oil, oil cakes, and peas. ​

25% Tariff: Applied to Canadian pork and aquatic products. ​

These measures are set to take effect on March 20, 2025. ​

China’s decision follows Canada’s imposition of a 100% levy on Chinese electric vehicles and 25% tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum products in October 2024. ​

The affected Canadian exports to China are valued at over $2.6 billion. ​
reuters.com

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The Canadian politicians think they have found a bogeyman (the U.S.) to rally stupid Canadians against.


8 posted on 03/10/2025 7:58:08 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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To: Frank Drebin

Canadians are sheep, just like Germans and Englishmen.


9 posted on 03/10/2025 7:59:40 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Annex Canada; deport Canadians.

Send them back to Britain, France, India, Hong Kong and Pakistan.


10 posted on 03/10/2025 8:04:23 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Canada appears to have a self-confidence problem. A really bad one. The hosers still haven’t figured out President Trump was just joking when he said he was going to make Canada a 51 state. They actually thought he was serious.


11 posted on 03/10/2025 8:06:10 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Fight fascist bureaucracy! )
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To: Frank Drebin

In the United Kingdom, the term “governor” is used in various contexts, particularly in its overseas territories and crown dependencies. In these regions, a governor is appointed by the monarch or the British government to represent the Crown and oversee the administration of the territory. The governor’s role can vary significantly depending on the constitutional setup of the territory.

Maybe Canadian elections are actually rigged by the UK to install who they want to lead their Canadian territory.

Maybe this is exactly why Trump calls Trudeau a ‘governor’..

If something could humble those subjects to the Crown to our north a bit, this would do it.


12 posted on 03/10/2025 8:07:40 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Surprising Hill article .


13 posted on 03/10/2025 8:16:13 AM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I couldn’t agree more.


14 posted on 03/10/2025 8:25:58 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Along with New Zealanders and Australians.


15 posted on 03/10/2025 8:26:39 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Canadians are acting like a bunch of kids who had their allowance cut off because they refused to do their chores.


16 posted on 03/10/2025 8:30:48 AM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: Frank Drebin

How did this article end up in The Hill? The Liberal party is using the same playbook as the rats in the US. They just swapped out “reproductive rights” with the Canadian media driven hatred for Trump.


17 posted on 03/10/2025 8:51:29 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“They’ve (Canaduh) sent as many illegal aliens into America as Mexico has.”

Really? Evidence would be nice. You want to criticize Canaduh? Try some TRUTH, instead of Bravo Sierra!

TRUTH:
How about MASSIVE FOREIGN INFLUENCE! The WEF/ChiComs RUN the Lieberal government and influence MANY politicians of other parties, both Federally and Provincially. (Try reading Michel Juneau-Katsuya’s book: ‘Nest of Spies: The Startling Truth About Foreign Agents At Work Within Canada’s Border’)

How about MASSIVE CORRUPTION, FENTANYL PRODUCTION and MASSIVE MONEY LAUNDERING!
https://www.thebureau.news/
https://frankvaughan.ca/

Please post truth, not Bravo Sierra! C’mon man, do you think you are Justin(e) True-dolt , or something?


18 posted on 03/10/2025 9:00:46 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Congrats to Canaduh's new Crime Minister, Marx Carney. Every circus needs a Carney!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

‘Zactly!

Unfortunately, MANY Canadians in ON, QU, and the ‘Lower Mainland’ in BC ARE that stupid!

ALBERTA OUT OF CANADUH!
CANADUH OUT OF ALBERTA!


19 posted on 03/10/2025 9:06:14 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Congrats to Canaduh's new Crime Minister, Marx Carney. Every circus needs a Carney!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer; All

I heard or read yrs ago that after WWII the USA helped England and Europe rebuild.

USA has not stopped.


20 posted on 03/10/2025 9:09:51 AM PDT by Karoo
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