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Conspiracy Theory Time: Trump is working on hedging the things Canada can fuck him over with so that he can complete his goal of conquering and annexing Canada. • He needs dirty Venezuelan oil to replace tar sand oil. • He needs Russian Potash and Aluminium to hedge against Canada’s near monopoly with those products in the US.

Yes. But they use CCP controlled social media to create the kind of harrassment seen across the developed world. Where chinese based foreign students gang up on whatever the current target is.

From what I understand, its more that the apps that they can use as payment apps are also CCP controlled news and social media apps. (e.g. WeChat) To the point that they can and do use those to try and manipulate chinese expatriats.

The reality is that the 35% tariff doesn’t actually amount to much since USCMA/NAFTA basically shields 80-90% of Canadian goods.

The nasty ones are the processed lumber, steel and aluminium tariffs.

Russia (from my armchair) looks to be essentially a colony of China at this point, and China has most of a supply line that ignores western nations.

Except for tech, which they still have to steal from us.

Yeah, but particular to the softwood lumber thing is that for 20 years they’ve been working to get unlimited access to our forests. It really kicked off when Harper completely capitulated to Dubya basically as soon as he got into office. Its been a constant fight since then.

It kicked into high gear with Trump 2.0

No, the softwood duties, thanks to Harper capitulating and Trudeau not giving a shit about BC, have resulted in raw logs being shipped to the US and utterly devastating small town BC.

Edit: which is how small town BC went from mixed NDP/CPC to matching Alberta’s idiocy.

Nah, the long standing intent is to bankrupt all BC logging companies.

They want unfettered access to BC’s forests. Sadly, conservatives up here have almost given them that.

We need a 200% export tax on raw materials leaving Canada.

Just so long as Carney the Coward retaliates against Trump as well for the tariff increase.

The US was intimately involved in getting the Shah into power in Iran alongside the Brits in the 1950s.

24 years?

They’ve been at it since WW2 ended.

71 million miles in simulators and closed tracks

It was a cover to allow Musk to get access to all US gov data and build that into an AI.

Because we are transitioning away from the US and that takes time.

E.G. Canada’s government removed industrial tariffs temporarily but kept commercial good tariffs. This is so that Canadian industries can get the necessary tooling and other things from the US now and remove the US from Canadian logistics.

So that Canada can move to completely remove the US from the industry side.

Let’s not forget that Starmer capitulated on the trade war.

He gets: • to still pay with an uneven playing field that benefits the US(import taxes) • to only bring in a limited amount of UK cars to the US market, instead of the previous unlimited amount. • to hurt the UK beef industry by accepting in the US’ frankly atrocious beef, which will be dumped in below cost to UK farmers due to the lack of quality controls on US beef.

Yeah great preliminary deal.

Sorry, I was under the assumption that the plan was what Bibi planned all along. He planted the idea in the orange moron that it was his plan to give himself plausible deniability.

You missed the last part of that exchange.

Carney says “Never”.