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Some Canadian stakeholders have argued for the government to target US swing states with retaliatory tariffs, to put political pressure on Republicans. But Brian Clow, a former senior Canadian adviser on trade and US relations, said the midterms shouldn’t be a major factor for Canada’s approach to negotiating tariff relief with the US.
“Nobody should expect the Democrats to save Canada or come to our rescue when it comes to Donald Trump’s tariffs,” Clow said. “Although there are some voices speaking out against Donald Trump’s tariff policy, many of them aren’t speaking out against it and may actually support it.”
Trump is the symptom, not the cause.
The cause is that Americans are Americans and always will be. They are bullies by culture and by nationality. They were raised to believe that America would always be number one, and would always call the shots. It was never about America the defender of the free world, it was always about America the undisputed power of the world.
For seventy years, that was true. All world economic metrics had America 80% rest of the world 20%. Now, it is more like America 30% rest of the world 70% or better, and Americans are just not able to accept that. The rest of the world, that 70% ,is now their enemy, period. Well, maybe not directly their enemy, but the target of their adversarial nature. They believe in win-lose negotiations, and can not accept that America no longer calls the shots, that it is either win-win (which to an American means they-win-America-loses) in negotiations, and that makes them very, very dangerous, collectively, no matter who leads them. T\he Thucydides Trap. Research it and you will understand what is happening in America.