This is excellent news. There are two distinctively different sets of tariffs scheduled to roll out in the next few days, weeks and months.
One set of long-term tariffs called MACRO tariffs focused on reciprocity and based primarily on economic fairness. The second and more urgent set, are focused on the immediacy of national security, border security and the demand for allies to shut down their support for fentanyl distribution.
The Border Security tariffs of 25% against Mexico and Canada start on Saturday. The media and corporate interests in/around Wall Street are in maximum apoplexy mode; however, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik previously explained the reason for the urgency. The video is 5 minutes and well worth your time if you want to avoid the confusion being pushed by media. WATCH:
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will impose 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico beginning Saturday, reiterating concerns about illegal migration, fentanyl and trade deficits in remarks to reporters.
“I’ll be putting the tariff of 25 percent on Canada, and separately, 25 percent on Mexico, and we’ll really have to do that,” Trump told reporters while signing executive orders focused on aviation safety.
Trump cited a “number of reasons” for doing so. “No. 1 is the people that have poured into our country so horribly and so much. No. 2 are the drugs, fentanyl and everything else that has come into the country. And No. 3 are the massive subsidies we are giving to Canada and to Mexico in the form of deficits,” Trump said.
“Those tariffs may or may not rise with time,” the president added.
When asked whether tariffs would also be applied to U.S. imports of Canadian oil, Trump said “we may or may not” apply the duties. “We’re making that determination tonight,” he said.
[…] The president also said he was “thinking about something” on China, because they’re sending fentanyl into our country,” but he did not speak to when he might levy tariffs on Beijing or how high he would raise them. After winning election in November, Trump had threatened to impose a 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports.
The remarks come amid ongoing discussions between the Trump administration and Mexican and Canadian officials, who are seeking to reassure the new president they are clamping down on border security to stave off the tariffs. Both countries have vowed to retaliate with tariffs of their own if Trump follows through on his threats. (read more)
Personally, I would prefer to see 100% import tariffs on all goods, all of them, every product imported from another country, driving the prices of those products up big time.
Essentially, CTH holds a viewpoint seeing through all the manipulative economic gaslighting over the past several decades. Real results from 2017 through 2020 proved that targeted tariffs do not ever raise the price to U.S. consumers, and now with the added benefit of watching in real time what happened in Russia due to sanctions that cut off the majority of their imports, we have an even more fact-based reason to support 100% tariffs on all import products. This will force the reindustrialization we need.
Tariffs fundamentally change the economic dynamic. Exfiltration of wealth ends and wealth creation within the USA middle-class begins again.
One wonders if the fentanyl trade would have even started if the British hadn’t forced their opium into China.
One who understands history sees the clear and direct linkage between the two.
Naturally, given our appalling Western miseducation systems, most Western people don’t. Because most seem incapable of comprehending how cultures other than theirs react to significant things like the Opium Wars, notwithstanding they were 150 years ago and didn’t even directly involve the US, apart of course from the slaves the British East India Company used to pick up from the Barbary Coast and deliver to the American South, and the cotton picked by said slaves, which was delivered to the mills in Northern England, which wove the cloth which the BEIC delivered to India, trading it for the opium the Indians had been “encouraged” to grow, just like happened in Afghanistan, before forcing it into Hong Kong.
That’s how the Hong Kong banking houses were built, and that’s how all those nice mansions in the English countryside were financed.
And now, China’s getting its own back, on what it sees as the UK’s lapdog. Because that’s what the US is. It’s a slave of the same people in London who used to direct and control the British Empire, now they direct and control the proxy British Empire, using the same methods, but with US muscle. That’s how most of the world sees you. Like it or not. That’s how it is.
The point of explicating that was: wake up. Recognise, in history, who have been friends and who haven’t been.
UK obviously hasn’t been.
What about Russia? Well, IIRC, Russia sent its fleet to help you defeat the British during your War of Independance. Didn’t it.
And France gave you money to support you, during same. Didn’t she.
In these times of change, ignore what you learned in college and start reading real history. Educate yourselves, on who are your real friends, and who aren’t. And forget what the MSM says, about everything to do with that.
I thought the foreign fleet that help the Revolution was French. Admiral Rushembou (spelling is based on pronunciation) led the French fleet that blocked the British ships from supporting their troops at York Town thus ending the war.
Sorry, it was during the Civil War that Russia came to aid the US… My mistake.
https://www.stolenhistory.org/articles/1863-russian-involvement-in-the-us-civil-war.168/
Russia basically defeated the Nazis with us in WWII, too.
yes..26 millions on russian side (11+ millions killed -soldiers+ 15 millions civilians) on amer. side -460+ thousands killed… some air heads feed our VSGPDJT with wrong. #’s ….it’s goes ukr.war too……
correct
Come on! 😉jk
Which pushed France over the bankruptcy threshold and led to a revolution.
Rochambeau. French general in Rev War. Also a bridge in DC. Led the French expeditionary forces.
Russia has helped the United States twice during our [relatively] short existence.
While the help from the French (at that time) is true, when George III wanted Russia’s support against this upstart nation Catherine the Great said “NO.”
It was Russia’s Czar Alexander II who helped Lincoln and the Union during our “Civil War, and made it very clear at that time that should England (or France) step in on the side of the South, they would have Russia to deal with.
Was taught all of this in 79’ and 80’s. I know the schools in our area refused to use the new books. They used to teach from old ones. Teachers said parents would be horrified. Things have probably changed – the youngest has been out of school many over 10 years now.
FormerNYS history teacher here Always thought it strange that we were instructed to throw old texts out and not pass them along when new books were ordered. With each new set of books, the history I learned in the 70’s/early 80’s got more watered down. By the 2000’s there was minimal mention of what socialism, communism, and fascism even were. Many of the kids couldn’t explain them competently enough to generate a discussion as to why they were ineffective, even dangerous.
Hmmmmm…wondering again… when did the Dept of Education begin?
Under Carter…’76-‘80.
Unicorn63: If you’re not reading old books, you’re not reading. You’re being entertained and propagandized. Of course, there are exceptions, when great authors (fiction, non-fiction) and investigative journalists (I am thinking of people such as Bernard Fall, the French-American military journalist who covered the French and US wars in Vietnam) change the way we understand the world.
There’s a great site, a compendium of out-of-print or limited-edition historical publications, going back a few centuries, called http://www.jstor.com.
And it’s FREE. Designed for academics, but open to anyone. A rich resource.
1974, I think. Carter.
Peanut Carter
In actuality, long before the late President Carter. Remember John Dewey and the scum from The Frankfurt School back in the 1930s: T.W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Walter Benjamin?
Right then and there was when the plans were made to destroy real education in the United States. They wanted to create good little Marxists of the children, but they first started in the Universities – Columbia was the start. Then their noxious theories spread to other Universities like a metastasizing cancer. What we are dealing with these days, at ALL levels of education, but particularly at the Universities and Colleges, is all thanks to their evil influence.
BS get in the real world.
Thinking Mexico is our friend is just pretending.. Mexico has never been our friend, they are the unreliable next door neighbor you really can’t do anything with..
If they would cut their grass…and trim their hedges…
Those are said to be the jobs only “undocumented immigrants” will do ….
I wouldn’t have been your friend either if you had taken all my property north of the Rio Grande. Perspective, folks.
How long was that Mexico? A whole 20 years or so? How far back do you want to go?
Would Mexico then restore it to Native Americans or does your outrage only apply to the US?
Good point.
And should that train of restoration and restitution continue? Should not the “current’ Native American tribes restore the lands to the native american tribes they took it from and then shouldn’t those…….
This could become a rather fun and fascinating exercise, don’t ya think? Before ya know it the world all be owned by Grog and Grunt Chocklodite and they could tariff us all!
Very true Boogy.
Mexico’s reatment of their own Native Indian Tribes has been vicious.
We didn’t “take” anything. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago which ended the Mexican/American war explains it.
The US paid for the land from Mexico. It was a complex treaty between the US & Mexico. Mexico & the liberals now think they made a bad deal and say the land still belongs to them…it doesn’t.
Mexico is not our “friend”.
Mistears Mom: Correct! The national borders and region of America are all the result of treaties and sometimes, hasty decisions made for political, financial and other reasons by the Spanish, the French, the British and, after the Revolutionary War, the Americans. Even the Russians tried to get into the game, along the northern Pacific coast, but, the real action was “back east” and down south. Let’s not forget the Dutch, the Swedes and others who tried to colonize what became America, before the Brits.
The Dutch at New Amsterdam and the Swedes at Philadelphia.
+1000
$15 million in that days wealth. Billions now. That treaty is not even taught in school history in MX.
Thank you Mistears Mom!
I did not see your comment before I posted my.
We paid Mexico 10 million dollars in the mid 1880s for the land covered by the Gadsen Treaty.
What a bunch of hogwash. People have been acquiring the lands of other people for thousands of years.
Just like Judea & Samaria (the “West Bank”), spoils of war after Jordan attacked the new nation of Israel, and seriously lost to the Jews.
Or the other areas claimed by the fiction called “Palestine”, which were abandoned by the resident Arabs, by the command of Hajj Amin al-Husseini (Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, exiled in Cairo) in 1967, to “make way for our great victorious Arab armies”. He created the spurious “Naqba”.
He also assisted his good friend Adolf Eichman, in devising “The Final Solution” to exterminate European Jewry.
Loss of lands all over. We Americans have been very fortunate to have 2 large oceans on our sides, a pacific Northern neighbor, and an utterly hapless nation to our South!
Yes.
The area where I grew up was the site of a large Indian war between the oddawas and the Iroquois.
The Iroquois thought that they might like to have the oddawas land.
They were wrong and came to that realization rather quickly.
They lost it in a war. We could have taken the whole country, if we had wanted.
The Mexicans sold the land north of Rio Grande to homesteaders. The Mexican government then tried to take the land back from which caused the fight with the “Texans”.
Yes, Santa Anna overthrew the United States of Mexico and nullified their Constitution in a coup of power, before attempting to force Texas back in to Mexico; he was nothing but a usurper and a tin-horn dictator.
One of the reasons the US “took” Mexican property which makes up Part of southern Arizona and New Mexico is because the Mexican government did nothing to keep the vicious bandits on the Mexican/US border under control.
The situation was complicated like most of life.
The Gadsen Purchase in the 1850 was an agreement where the US paid 10 million dollars to Mexico for land that became part of southern New Mexico and Arizona.
The Mexican American war in the 1880s occured because Mexico allowed vicious criminals to live on the border and raid American citizens mostly in Texas.
We finally had enough battled our way down through Mexico and occupied Mexico City for a couple of years.
Mexico is doing much the same now allowing their vicious cartel war lords to run free on our southern border.
Don’t let the borrow your tools. Poof !!!!!!!!
They have declared war against us. How many years have drugs been smuggled across the southern border? How many Americans have died as a result of those drugs? As Lutnik said in the video, there is no war we could have that would kill 100,000 Americans, and the truth is, the number is far, far higher than that when you include all the heroin and cocaine that has been smuggled in over the past five or six decades.
And now, they’re shooting at our border patrol. Tariffs are actually not enough, although I like Sundance’s idea of 100% tariffs. What we should do is invade Mexico and establish a buffer zone five or ten miles deep. It should be a no-man’s land. Step into it and you get shot on sight. Have to raze towns in order to do it? So be it.
When I was young in San Antonio, ALL the heroin, white and brown, that came to the US came from MX thru SA. The whole town was awash in it.
Exactly right. And they don’t think ANYTHING like us. At all.
I have long thought the idea of “faithful allies”, just because out of enlightened self interest their troops fought alongside ours against a common enemy is deeply flawed.
We are romantising what is basically a shotgun wedding.
Yes, we fought together, 60 YEARS ago, against a common enemy that threatened each of us.
However, the EU/NATO Countries have been ripping the U.S. off, for the same amount as CHYNA; 1/2 TRILLION $/ Year, for 20-30 years.
If they are our “allies”,…and are treating us just like our enemies, WTF?
PDJT is once again going to reverse the “exfiltration of wealth” out of this country, and to the Globullusts.
NO. China just wants to take over the world. Fentanyl is just one of their many strategies. Their history with opium and Britain has nothing to do with it.
No China doesn’t want to take over the world, it simply wants to do business with the world, as it has done most of its multi thousand year history. How many nations has China invaded vs how many has the US invaded, last 150 years, e.g.
Most westerners can’t seem to get it through their skulls that most people in the world do not repeat do not think like them. Most non-Western nations DO NOT WANT TO dominate and prevail, but because this is all Western nations ever dream about, they have a very hard time imagining most people aren’t like them.
I disagree about China. The Han Chinese consider themselves the most evolved, most ethical, most deserving people on the planet; they are not necessarily militaristic culturally but they do consider themselves dominant over all other people and expect the rest of the world to behave accordingly. They believe that they have the right to dominate the rest of the planet.
Yes they have traditionally devalued the military, and spent much of their thousands of years of history under the thumb of one invading group or another, but they are not content to just sit in their little corner of the planet and be part of a larger multi-ethnic system.
What ethnic group do you belong to, Yin?
There’s nothing wrong with a Chinese person pointing out what the majority of Chinese think of themselves, honestly. Look up how the Han treat other ethnic minorities in China.
I agree. It’s very sad how the Han population thinks they’re the real Chinese. All other ethnic groups are treated like curiosities. The “reservations” for lack of a better term are little more than side shows for the Han population to enjoy whenever.
They’re incredibly racist.
They consider everyone in the next village over to be “barbarians,” even if they are Han. They consider all non-Han to be non-human…
I would say that the Han are virulently racist.
Exactly.
Does it matter what the people of China and Russia think right now in the short term considering Xi and Putin are dictators?
Why does cherry picked history matter when we are dealing with the whole world attempting to gain wealth from the USA middle class? When we have internal entities seemingly hell bent on destroying the USA from within and giant corporations running the agenda of the world is that not more concerning? Isn’t Monsanto every bit as much an enemy of the free world as any other actor?
Finally with the brick and road program who is attempting to colonize the world right now?
Evidently Putin has 80% support amongst Russian people last election. Trump could only dream about that. And the only people claiming that’s bullshit are Western morons who understand nothing about Russia. Xi? Not sure, don’t think he even has elections. So no need for polls. But if there was a poll on his performance, given China’s record last ten years, would imagine it would be up there.
Whereas American “democracy” just got rid of a demented brain-dead moron and the UK’s “democracy” just elected someone who decided it’d be a good idea to imprison people for years for making hateful social media posts. Those regimes certainly sound very democratic indeed, don’t they.
Didn’t answer a single question. Noted.
I think he has a case of hatred towards his country. Or possibly a Trump Hater. I have a King already in place he will return soon but I appreciate Trump for everything he is doing for us currently and will respect him even when he does something I do not like.
Are there any real questions in there? I’m not surprised that there aren’t.
Well said.
How many nations has the USA invaded taken over, and still possess in the last 150 years? ZERO.
How many nations has China invaded and taken over in the last 150 years? Mongolia, parts of India, and their Belt and Road initiative that demands obedience under threats of bankrupting them. They will probably trade Taiwan for Panama soon.
“The United States government has been involved in numerous interventions in foreign countries throughout its history. The U.S. has engaged in nearly 400 military interventions between 1776 and 2023, with half of these operations occurring since 1950 and over 25% occurring in the post-Cold War period.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_United_States
I notice you say “still possess” as if perhaps you hallucinate this gives you an out from your ruthless slaughter. What about Libya, which you destroyed, but don’t “possess” but which is a hell hole for its inhabitants compared to what it was before Obama ordered it destroyed.
Is the blood of all those Libyans on your hands? How bout the blood of those half million Iraqi children your psychopathic Secretary of State said were “a price worth paying?” Is their blood on your hands?
These are questions Americans never appear to ask themselves. Perhaps they should.
wikipedia is your source? Noted.
That blood is on the hands of regular Americans…to the same extent the blood of the conquests of Chinese leaders are on the hands of the Chinese peasants.
Until President Trump…we haven’t had elected leaders who listened to…or did the will of the people while in office.
Until Priesdent Trump…it didn’t matter who Americans voted for…the Uniparty installed one of its own to enable the will of the wealthy elites.
The two countries are more alike than most would like to admit…the US just PRETENDS to to have elections that matter.
Truth is…they only matter when the win is too big for the cheat to work…like the Presidential elections in 2016 and 2024.
Let’s step aside a bit and look into the Muslim world, the countries, the policies, the actions, the history, the millions killed for it? The main theme of their ‘good book’ is to dominate and rule the world. The policy and actions of chopping off body parts including heads to maintain dominance, of killing their daughters and wives in honor killings for daring to look at a man, of throwing people off roofs of buildings for sexual transgressions. How many Muslim countries are there again that all follow the same good book?
China under Mao and the CCP have murdered millions and invaded countries under the guise of trade for decades. They rule their people with an iron hand and do not hesitate to punish them according to whatever transgression seems to offend the party line. Look at their policies for surrounding countries to their lands, the treatment of religious groups like Christian’s, Muslims and Buddhists. There’s so much more.
Russia under Stalin and other communists took over numerous countries killing millions along with their rampaging violence. The Soviet block was locked down for years until Poland, East Germany etc. finally were able to get away and claim their sovereignty again. That was not that long ago in political terms.
You say the world hates us. You say we are a violent war mongering country. You know nothing if you wish to blame America for all the issues in the world. You wish to criticize America for taking lives when all around are far worse countries and policies that have taken millions of lives for a thousand or more years. France, England Russia China the countries of the ME, and many more have done far worse than the USA in the course of their histories.
Your arrogance in trying to lecture Americans on how bad we are compared to other much more violent nations is duly noted. You are wrong but then you know that.
Thank You!!!
“The main theme of their ‘good book’ book is to dominate and rule the world.”
In today’s modern time it would be labeled by our press as simply a tribal manifesto and then they would hide it from anyone seeking to find out what’s in it similar to how they hide the school sho oters manifesto.
Wonder how many here have actually read their ‘good book’? it is quite something as our friend David mentioned in his post on the open thread yesterday. I pulled my copy (don’t ask, and no, am not a practitioner of that ideology) to look up the words “Jews” “Kill” “Pigs” etc. that was mentioned the other day, and the number of those mentions was quite astronomical.
There was a time when the young Roman Catholic church went around torturing or killing whomever they labeled heretics, but the Church outgrew that natural human trait of othering those whom didn’t think like them. It’s as if the people of the Mohammed religion are being held hostage by some ancient belief that change, growth is of their devil or something. It would be nice if those folk would be allowed to evolve from their late stone age mentality.
Lightbringerer=Obama/Obiden? Asking for a friend.
You seem to have a more global perspective than us.
…..and sooo many got nerves bark on -aggressive/warmongering/despotic Iranians who do not invaded other country for more than 260+ yrs…but defend a themselves against Iraqi’s army 1980-87….. I applaud VSGPDJT….for his order move US troops out of Syria and not wanted get to war with Iranians in the his 1st term ..and I am sure he will not do it in the his current term…….
On OUR hands? Where do you hale from? Langley, VA?
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Pretends to be from New Zealand.
Someone’s Derp to be sure.
Figures. Can’t even spell Lightbringer properly.
Guam, Hawaii, The Philippines, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, plus the many bases we have around the world, just to name a few.
History, much?
The US still possesses the Philippines???
“History, much?”
The United States initially acquired the Philippines. Independence was granted later. So yes the history supports Blade runner’s statement. The US possessed the territory.
Staring in 1898 and ending in 1947 – Hawaii, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Eastern Samoa, Panama Canal, Guantanamo, Virgin Islands, Kingsman Reef, Swan Island, Kanton Island, Water Island, Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands
The average Western citizen has zero desire to “dominate and prevail.”
There are bad people, like there are all over the world (think cartels), who use the economic abundance created from Judeo-Christian societies to go forth and plunder. War, like fentanyl, is profitable.
All we think about is what goes on in our daily lives.
The average American wants to go back to something akin to the Monroe Doctrine.
We should keep that after WW2… instead getting closer to russian borders and try overthrow pesky VVP..OBSSESION… of neocons/uniparty/globalists is sickening……
Hoo vol: Monroe? The shock absorber company? I agree.
I have been doing a lot of remote tutoring of nieces, nephews and other kids during the past few years and the quality of today’s education in history is disgraceful.
P.S. Thanks for your comments about the Potomac mid-air collision. People on CTH offer amazing expertise in so many areas.
I found it ironic during the Falkland’s war that we backed the UK and not Argentina. Monroe Doctrine should have reversed that.
Well, Special Relationships and Greatest Allies *snerk* gotta stick together.
Or something.
I know this Elle, I am a Western citizen myself. It’s not us, it’s our governments, and our governments are structurally inherently flawed. But the tricky part is: (a) how deep is the rot (b) what do we need to do to fix it forever so it never recurs (c) how do we punish the rotter’s so it never happens again even if a rotter comes along again in a hundred years after everyone alive today are all dead?
If we can’t resolve those questions, we’re not going to solve the problem. Because its good vs evil, at heart.
We have not come close, YET to overcoming the “rotters” and already many are putting unrealistic goals of permanently defeating evil.
That will not happen thru politics or economics, thst will only happen when our Lord returns.
China is now fully infected with the same western mind virus the west suffers from. Karl Marx was from the west, and Judaic in his thinking. Supremacism, the political philosophy that some special group of people deserve to rule the world, is the common thread in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Communism and Nazism. Modern China is a Han ethno-state with imperial ambitions. Their racism reveals that their government is not communist but more similar to Nazi Germany.
Which explains why the deep state in in bed with China…its like the Manchurian Operation Paperclip…the Chinese have infiltrated all levers of power in the US…hence the Nazis are still in power…just behind the scenes…we are still fighting WWII…or at least the ideology of the power players behind the scenes!
Not in Christianity! To convert the world, yes, because we want to save souls!
Yea….the CCP moto certainly is “can’t we all just be friends”.
Speaking of history, the millions of peasants slaughtered to “encourage” migration to urban centers intended to modernize Chinese industry in the 20th century – that’s not an indicator of the deeper cultural and power dynamics in China? The incessant warfare among major Chinese empires is not an indicator of a proclivity to violence to settle political differences?
The papers published by Chinese military leaders for decades now that conceive a theoretical conflict between the US and China AND a compelling need to suborn US agriculture in service of China are just a reaction to US hegemonism globally?
When China steals intellectual property that is just squaring the inequities but when the US applies aggressive pressures that is unwieldy exercise of colonialism?
We bad – they all just reacting? No responsibility?
Well said. One note – the Chinese don’t see a “theoretical” conflict with us, they see an inevitable conflict.
You really don’t bring any light.
I thought Obama was the Lightbringer.
<I thought Obama was the Lightbringer.>
The only light Obama brings is in his loafers 🙂
Obama was the BLIGHTBRINGER
He is definitely Luciferian. (Lucifer is “light-bringer” in Latin)
Blighters are like that.
Sure. China’s just a sweet kid, full of dreams.
CCP Chinese “invasions and military actions: Hong Kong, Panama, and the US. Yes, CCP (think Chinese military) companies are dominating other countries.
True enough these aren’t exactly military invasions, but they show the CCP has world domination plans.
Actual military incursions: Korea, Vietnam, and numerous others. Communist CCP overthrow of Republic of China leading to the ROC retreat to Taiwan. As you know Taiwan is under constant CCP threat.
While your position is interesting from a historical viewpoint. I don’t see the connection to the CCP established in 1949 by civil war with ROC.
Off base I think. Everyone here knows we’ve been taken over by corrupt people. The invasions by the US have happened in the last 40 years. We have been bribing, bullying, and bombing the world for a very short period of time, but it’s not who we are historically.
History shows that America does not invade to take but to help. True, there’s the greedy who want to stay and get rich but that’s not our true nature. Look and you will see that without our help, many nations would not have won.
Like Yugoslavia?
What is Xi Jinping referring to when he uses the term “Chinese Dream”?
What did the motto for the 2008 Olympics, in Beijing, mean by “One World, One Dream”?
Kindly explain the Chinese view that their emperors had the Mandate of Heaven to rule tianxia, “all under Heaven.”
In his 2017 New Year’s message, Xi proclaimed, “The Chinese have always held that the world is united and all under Heaven are one family.”
China want to take over the world. Look at Vietnam, China has invaded them repeatedly and failed to hold on to the land after invasion.
“How many nations has China invaded… last 75 years?” (Since the official founding of the PRC in 1949)
Tibet, 1950 (invaded and annexed by China)North Korea, South Korea 1950-53Taiwan owned islands Qimoy and Matsu, 1954-55, then shelling in 1958, then missiles in 1995-96Burma, 1960-61 with ongoing border clashes ever since, most recently 2024India, (Sino-Indian war) 1962 with ongoing border clashes ever sinceBorder clashes with USSR, 1969 Sino-Vietnamese War, 1979. China invaded northern Vietnam but was defeated. China has seized and occupied Vietnam-owned islands and seized Vietnamese oil rigs off the coast of Vietnam, the Paracels war was fought over islands, China is also occupying the Spratley islands and Johnson’s reef.China forced Tajikistan to cede 1,000 sq km to China, 2011There were also various other smaller clashes on the Chinese borders with Kazakhstan and KyrgyzstanMultiple incursions into Bhutan since 1949, most recently in 2022 and again in 2024Incursions into Nepal, most recently 2024Ongoing naval and air incursions against Japanese Senkaku islands, 1960s to present dayOccupation and claimed annexation of islands, reefs and waters off the Philippines leading to multiple clashes. China has attacked Philppine ships within 3 miles of Palawan island. China has asserted claimed to islands and regions of the South China Sea belonging to Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan and the PhilippinesChina has fought with and invaded almost every country it borders on
I respectively disagree: China needs the U.S. market to survive. Prior to Chynah being admitted to the WTO, (“coincidentally” just a couple months after September 11, 2001), the Red Panda was a struggling country with a bleak future, (ie limiting couples to just one child). After the U.S., under GWB, lobbied to get Chyna admitted….well, the rest is history. China doesn’t want to take over the U.S. as they need the U.S. market for their country to survive. What Xi really wants to do is “control” us…which is done by buying Congress/Governor’s/Industries/Media, etc. Chyna wants a “symbiotic” relationship versus a “parasitic” one that will eventually kill its host….and itself.
Bill had to have somewhere to sell American stuff.
Bill was a fellow traveler…leftist through and through…just another communist selling out the US to the Chinese communists.
“China needs the U.S. market to survive.”
No, it doesn’t.
The West, in total, is around 1.2 billion consumers. The rest of the world, in total, is around 7 billion consumers. The West currently are the richest bunch of consumers, but that is changing rapidly, and the speed of change is rapidly and exponentially increasing. China has the BRICS nations, which represent the 7 billion. That is where China’s future markets are. The West? Most of the 7 billion hates the West’s guts because it’s just been supporting Israel’s genocide, so we in the West are going to become increasingly isolated as time goes by.
These are facts, not arguable. Travel to any non-Western nation and ask anyone on the street how they feel about the West and what its supported in Gaza.
I was wondering when you were going to start spewing this crap,
“Most of the 7 billion hates the West’s guts because it’s just been supporting Israel’s genocide, so we in the West are going to become increasingly isolated as time goes by.These are facts, not arguable. Travel to any non-Western nation and ask anyone on the street how they feel about the West and what its supported in Gaza.”
I just hate genocide Dan. It’s surprising to meet someone on here who doesn’t, quite frankly.
How distasteful to see this straw man thrown out there. You accuse anyone who disagrees with you of genocide?
logical fallacy and a personal attack all in two sentences.
The government of Israel is guilty of that and crimes against humanity.
I wonder how quiet it will be here when Gaza is cleared for Israeli expansion.
Bibi is more than a war criminal.
The only thing you are “bringing” lo0ks like a light-sucking black hole! What a load of gall.
A lightbringerer is a dude who loses his contact lens in the hallway but looks in the kitchen because the light is better.
Good thing the Chinese haven’t practiced murder at scale with Covid cities, Uyghurs and, my favorite, political opponents of the uniparty power structure in that country.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_China
But all this support for Chyna?
You have a superiority complex. All the signs are there: disdain for the West, romanticizing the past of the barbarians and excusing every present atrocity commited by them. Hence the faulty logic and distorted facts.
If you weren’t so consumed by envy, you’d be able to learn something about the Good, the Beautiful and the True, concepts that do not exist outside the West.
Just stop using Wikipedia and actually spend some time reading actual books. Start with the Bible and the Classics – history, philosophy, fiction, science… Those dead white guys have a lot to teach us. You will appreciate the value of that knowledge when you see a change for the better in your life. And this in turn will bring you joy.
“I just hate genocide Dan.”
Sounds like the opening line from an over the top, politically correct Barack Obama – George Cloony Netflix movie of the week.
This comment by Lightbringerer reminds me of the AI, HAL, controlling most of the spaceships operations in the old movie “2001 A Space Odyssey”
HAL goes wacko and starts to kill off the humans.
When one of the scientest astronats needs to have HAL open a hatch to get back into the ship HAL tells in in a very nice mild voice ” I am sorry Dave I can’t do that”.
Creepy, real creepy.
So does the red haired Samantha Power who wrote about genocide and look what she’s doing
you are not only one here..
We were in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos for a couple weeks in December. Given our wreched history in that part of the world you would think they would hate us. It’s the complete opposite. Once a person figured out we were not Canadians they became animated wanted to practice their English, try special food, extend hospitality. My wife and I were somewhat stunned. We did not see many Americans. We also have traveled Cuba and Egypt and gotten the same hospitality and gracious treatment. We were on organic tours, not shepherd by “minders”.
Sundance is right as rain in his closing statement.
Close relatives of ours spent two weeks in Vietnam on holiday.
They are Canadian and were treated incredibly well.
On the whole the many Vietnamese I have met are gracious and polite.
Excluding of course the many gangsters here in the western countries that exploit nations soft underbelly.
Cheers!
Apologies, I will now put my other foot in my mouth, my wife and I have been mistaken for Canadians, we never complain have manners and embrace where we are and their local customs. One of our best road/ferry trips was to The Maritimes, Isle’d Madeline, which no many US citizens visit was a hoot. Have a great weekend, be well.
No apologies required..but thank you!
If you have never been to our west coast, it is a region you might enjoy.
Travel for Americans to Canada this year affords one an incredible value $1.00 U.S. buys approximately $1.45 (Can)
Cheers, and all the best!
Israel’s genocide?
ICC…declare is it….to surprise of many here ….many on the WEST think is it too…hmmm
You are fundamentally and completely wrong, in your baseline premise and every assumption thereafter.
You think you travel to non-Western nations more than I? lolol… You are totally wrong on their feelings. The “west” is defined as the best quality, highest standard, and the goal of expectation and achievement.
You are, like many, blinded by a staunch opinion on the Israel/Gaza mess. That prism is now defining your worldview. I get it. I understand how it happens, but don’t come on this website and pour nonsense just because you have a monocular view of the geopolitical world.
The USA market is the most valuable market in the world. Second place isn’t even close.
You’re downplaying the perverse skewing of Zionism. It’s no different than what’s gone on in Ukraine, but with much longer standing. There will always be knock-on effects from this. We’ll find out what the world really thinks about all this when the dollar collapses as foreign exchange, and all of the looming $60T of debt comes home for good.
Trump is rightly scared of this, thus his recent warning to Spain. Slowly, slowly, then all at once.
I don’t care about this “Zionism.” As far as I’m concerned it doesn’t exist and doesn’t matter. What does matter is that a country called Israel exists. There is a western style government running that country serving the interests of all people who legally reside within that country both Jews and non-Jews. They have and deserve the right to live peacefully among others.
All of the border issues around Israel are largely present to ensure that no dangerous enemies are allowed to use proximity to launch attacks on Israel. And that’s all that matters from a practical standpoint.
If you want to talk about other imaginary or symbolic or religious matters as the core or cause? I think you fundamentally misunderstand how things work.
So, you pretend not to know things. I see.
And yes, that’s how we wind up with zionist and Ukranian perversions. They are same same.
Ultimately, we conservatives must separate ourselves from you neocons. You are enmeshed with our enemies, foreign and domestic. That will be a final black pill, if we ever get there.
They simply do not actually matter. Life and peace are what matters. “Zionism” is an excuse for death and violence.
Yes, pretending not to know things is a conscious choice. It will be good for we conservatives when we finally separate ourselves from you who make that choice, so that we might have a bright line between ourselves and our enemies, the pretenders. Right now, they are the enemy within.
Zionism was born when Jews were murdered in pogroms in Russia, Lithuanian, Poland and by the Nazis. When they crawled out of Hitler’s ovens, where were they supposed to go? Not one country refused to take them all. Some took a few. So don’t speak to me about Zionism. Israel is the land of the Jewish people and has been for 3000 years.
Look at the colonisation of countries by Islam–by a guy who left Islam and is now proudly a zionist
https://nitter.poast.org/ImtiazMadmood/status/1884979893949047119#m
Sundance, I deeply respect the insights you have given me on US politics and its economy over the last decade or so I have been following CTH on more or less a daily basis, depending how critical things were in the world at the time. However, I think you’re wrong on this issue.
The U.S. WAS the most valuable market in the world, when 45 left office. It’s not, anymore. China is now the most valuable market in the world, and the US isn’t even close. Compare Chinese infrastructure to US infrastructure, compare Chinese manufacturing capacity to US capacity, compare Chinese IT (Deepseek) to US “high tech” (ChatGPT).
And it’s not just China. It’s the rest of the world apart from the 1.2 billion Westerners, who are accelerating. Away from us.
I’m not blinded by Israel/Gaza, I’m struck by how the Western world is ignoring Nazi-style (as in, sadism and cruelty) and Nazi-level (as in, scale) murder, on a level previously world courts HAVE ruled to be genocide and indeed, modern day courts have ruled likewise. How can this be happening when we, who hold ourselves to be a civilised people, refuse even to investigate honestly and openly whether or not these claims may or may not be in fact, true?
I have a lot more detail to bring to the table but I note your reply was pithy so thought I’d limit myself accordingly. But I truly respect your insights, and if you choose to ban me from commenting on your site, I’d appreciate it if you’d allow me to view only the CTH posts, because those have taught me more about US and general politics than any other site on the entire interweb, and I’ve been in this game for a long, long time.
Hmmm, ignoring the Islamic jihad that Hamas has unleased on Israel shows that you have a particular bias when it comes to Jews. You seem to ignore the fact of Israel, the main one being it exists and will continue to do so. Those who do not attack the Jews and their country will never be attacked.
Were the French Maquis during WWII terrorists for fighting the German occupiers, or were they resistance fighters?
It’s just that international law has ruled, ages ago, that the IDF is an occupying force, therefore armed resistance against said force, is legal, under international law.
It’s a bit inconvenient if you want to promulgate Western spoon-fed propaganda, I agree, but nevertheless, this is, in fact, what the law actually, truly, in fact, says.
Moral equivalence will not cut it here.
But go ahead and keep digging…
What is the moral justification of bombing four Lebanese apartment buildings, claiming to
have killed one terrorists ?
How about planting bombs in phones and indiscriminately blowing the ‘ terrorists ‘ up in
open air markets, surrounded by civilians ?
How about leveling the homes and killing the Christian Arabs ?
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and the Jewish people, not the synagogue of Satan.
International law? Who sets that? Why should anyone care?
Your mind seems to be Israeli occupied territory. If I wanted to spend every day accusing Israel, I would go over to Unz review and get my fill.
” … that international law ….”
WHAT international law is that? You don’t mention what international law because even you will have to start laughing out loud!
Humor us … WHAT international law?
International law as policed by the ICC?
“International law” is an illusion.
“It’s just that international law has ruled, ages ago, that the IDF is an occupying force, therefore armed resistance against said force, is legal, under international law.”
This is complete horseshit.
Pithy enough for you?
Hmmm, ignoring the fact that Israel created Hamas shows that you have a particular bias.
I have seen and read plenty demonstrating this.
Including Bibi bragging about it.
You can find this information, probably quite easily, but you won’t.
Silliness regarding the value of the markets. Unadulterated silliness.
That’s a whole lot of nuclear level dishonesty right there.
It still IS. Why do you think the world and the globalist interests are losing their minds over tariffs?! They want to sell to us cheaply. We are the most important market. If we weren’t, then tariffs wouldn’t matter to them in the LEAST.
Always the same… Play a pathetic victim.
Sundance did not threaten to ban you. He merely asked you not to come here and lie with impunity.
Yes Sundance agree . In large part that market is made possible by the goodwill of American people to have openness and largesse towards other countries products, combined with a dearth of creative and new industries to meet our own demands . When are our own people going to ever get back the desire for hard work , ethics and discipline that would be necessary to rebuild our own industries ? PDJT has an overwhelming task , and only time will tell if we have the true backbone to take the pain that is required to reverse this .
That will change when the edikashun system in this country is changed. From K on up our children are indoctrinated. They are taught instant gratification instead of the three Rs. The bad kids and bullies are not disciplined. When someone fights back THAT person is prosecuted and persecuted, just like whistle blowers. A lot of parents think that their kid would NEVER do that! No discipline. That sends the wrong message. Get back to the three Rs, logical thinking, discipline, physical education, home ec, leadership, manners, respect, the Constitution, real world history, geography, and the Pledge of Allegiance.
Our nation’s report card reveals the educational state of the nation and it’s an F. Teacher Unions are a large part of the problem. The quality of our teachers is poor thanks to the DEI initiatives that the unions have pushed on the school systems. One way to address this is Universal School Choice to help parents have good alternatives to public schools.
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/01/30/the-nations-report-card-for-u-s-students-shows-continued-learning-losses-since-pandemic/
Once again I thank you for my continuing education.
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Thanks for setting that straight. 😁👍🇺🇸
Frankly I’m sick of all the Gaza/Israel garbage. There is a country and a government of Israel. It exists and it has a lot of people living there both Jewish and non-Jewish. All people deserve to live peacefully among others. But when one party decides another does NOT have or deserve the right to live peacefully, they must be dealt with through appropriate means. On a small scale, it’s a mental illness. On a governmental scale? Well.. it’s obvious I think. It needs to stop and how it stops is based entirely on the party which has decided another does not deserve to live peacefully.
Thank you, Sundance.
“Most of the 7 billion hates the West’s guts because it’s just been supporting Israel’s genocide, “
Yeah. THAT’s why they hate us.
Just finish your first year at university?
I don’t think Mr Lightbringer is a Trump voter.
Yeah litmus test.
Let me guess Lightbringer voted for : Obama, Biden, and Harris.
Quote from Frank J. Fleming’s: “Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything.”
“Oh, but Barack Obama was no mere man. He was a paragon of intelligence and civilized society. A savior to the world’s depressed. A lightbringer.”
Teh lightbringer in fact.
Isn’t one of Satan’s names, “Lightbringer”?
No.
I’ll bet that most here still have their autographed photo of dubble U hanging on their wall.
I’ll also bet that they salute it ever’ morn .
I’ll also surmise that most here watch tik Tok cause handily Shawn sez tik Tok.
Maybe not a citizen to legally vote. I noticed the “yous” in those comments above.
So, IMO this person intentionally or unintentionally is giving us intel of how some of our rivals (internal or external) think.
Blighter claims to be from New Zealand.
The nature of the information provided, the spin applied, the obvious errors fed into its narratives, its massive verbosity and excessive interest in the affairs of a foreign land it pretends to know better than its own citizens strongly suggest it is somebody’s Derp, an Operative.
It also loves loves loves to argue, upon any pretense.
Allot of communist after they destroyed South Africa ended up in NZ & Australia, though I doubt its really in NZ. Its as you say my friend a disrupter and Operative.
Does it usually shill for China?
Well a NZ academic Annemarie Brady warned the NZ govt about the infiltration of Chinese spies into NZ a few years back. For her troubles, she was ignored then the spies targeted her twice to try and kill her–they cut her brake cables, broke into her house, stole her laptops etc
No longer safe: Researcher harassed by China in her own country
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/no-longer-safe-researcher-harassed-by-china-in-her-own-country-20190128-p50u1n.html
Confucius Institute chair ‘attacks professor exposing alleged Chinese espionage’
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/confucius-institute-chair-attacks-professor-exposing-alleged-chinese-espionage/video/8a56fdb45ff0f1ec1bb3fcfbfcd5d41f
NZ is captured
Not this hard.
Seems a nerve got poked.
Only because of the gang piling and character assassination do I now realize that he indeed
must be a super secret, deep undercover operative !
I was waiting until Monday for handily Shawn to tell me.
Thanks guys.
Do I really need to include the sarcasm tag ?
Tell me about NZ. I lived there for 5 years. I couldn’t STAND it under Helen Stalingrad/Helengrad Clark who now is a UN/WEF stooge.
Schooling was abysmal with grammar not being taught and neither were phonics. I pulled the kids out and into private schools ASAP.
They all say “yous” and ‘bro.
And most of them smoke marijuana. My “boss” used to disappear to the garage in the building and have a smoke .
So “Lightbringerer” is the nom de plume for Jacinda Ardern? 😁
Jacinda voter.
His mask is now off.
Attempting to sully his character and gang piling him does nothing to disprove his position.
It does however demonstrate that you are an obedient sheep waiting to be sheared.
That is 100 % correct . We Americans unless we travel and get out of our little bubbles , won’t really understand what makes the rest of the world tick . Why did I never hear about China’s 100 years of humiliation by the west until recently ? After learning more about this I realize the real villains ( the Anglo-Euro Zionist Freemason Cabal ) are using our naïveté in a far more devious way than any Asian or Russian propaganda could .
We think we fought off the Brits and gained our Independence , but it was all just an experiment for them to introduce a banking system that would always benefit them no matter who was in control of the Government.
Who are the ones who actually control their economies are Russia and China . Not us . That is why BRICS is an existential threat to us . Yet we are so weak as a society and in large part it is due to our ignorance of history.
Doug Macgregor made an apposite observation once on one of Judge Nap’s shows. He told the story of a I think German general saying to him in response to a conversation between them about the internecine nature of Americans: “Doug, America is not a country, it’s a planet.”
And that, sadly, is how many Americans view their own country. If they go from one state to another on a vacation, they think they’ve gone to another country.
On my read, this is both a strength and a weakness. It’s a strength in that you have those profound cultural differences existing within your own borders, but it’s a weakness in that it gives people the illusion they are world-wise when really all they know is a small sample of what’s really out there.
And this, IMO, is why propaganda is so successful in your nation, because there are so many insular cultures within your wider American culture, so all “they” need to do is tailor the propaganda to the insular group and it grabs hold of the 90+% of that group who haven’t ever experienced anything else their entire lives.
Nice wide paint brush you have there. It’s useless, but plenty wide.
It’s a generalization that fits.
I’ve been abroad.
I’ve been outside of my bubble.
I love my little bubble in the redneck rurality of northwestern America!
I know it’s superior to any current European or Islamic culture you care to push!
Yee Haw 🤠
Have you visited the US or traveled much through the states?
No, but I did go overseas and kill some brown people once.
It was the only way that we could bring them (our) demokracy.
right on ..1,000 upvote…
Number of people is irrelevant. Their purchasing power is relevant. Suggest you google GDP by nation and reformulate.
The number of people in China was very relevant to corporate decisions to build in China. They thought they’d absorb market like others did here. The CCP had other ideas.
I heard in the past few weeks an assertion that China’s trade deficit with the US had grown in the past year to a full One Trillion Dollars.
One truly has to wonder at the purposes of anyone that would so adamantly declare that a country that is obsessed with The New Silk Noose and capturing markets could dismiss the only market from which it could extract a trade deficit of a freaking Trillion Dollars.
One can assess from that insistence alone that is it profoundly misinformed or profoundly mendacious.
You forget: those billions of consumers? They need economies of growth in order to consume.
GDP = GNI.
That has not happened for a whole myriad of reasons. The “history” certainly shows that centrally planned economies are not flexible enough to achieve sustained growth. Such countries eventually have to march down the road of introducing aspects of capitalism (which implies loosening some constraints on freedom) or they just steal steal what they can and import the rest.
Yes it does.
With respect to your perspective, how many of the 7 billion have a dollar to spend?
But as to the genocide perspective- there is the I AM/Fathers thoughts/ways (your ways/thoughts aren’t always My ways saith the Lord) There is a demonic attribute to the gaza area- Israel failed to drive them out in the days of Joshua. And so the problem is still there. I also realize that there is a problem with those that say they are Jews, but are of the “synagogue of Satan”
Maranatha
“7 billion hates the West’s guts”
They hate us sooo much, we can’t keep them out of our home.
” Israel’s genocide”? “These are facts, not arguable.”? Au Contraire, Mi Amigo. Nine kinds of BS. “If Hamas lay down their arms there will be peace. If Israel lay down their arms they will be annihilated.” It has ALWAYS been that way. If Hamas came out from behind the skirts of the civilians, schools, hospitals, and public buildings of Gaza there wouldn’t be so many civilians killed. This is a WAR. You hit ’em where you find ’em.
Reminder to all…there are no coincidences…
How’d we end up with so many Americans who had a taste of “Chasing The Dragon”??
The Oxycodone Tsunami of 98 to 2011, that’s how.
Who exactly foisted that on us and sat around pointing fingers for 13 years while drugstore cowboys held up pharmacies and former honor students pawned family electronic for pill money?
The three big players were the Florida Uniparty Legislature, the DEA And pHarma..
The ChiComs saw a chink in the armor and exploited it.
And all those who made “Pain, the Fifth Vital Sign”…
…and there were a bunch of them….when the patient identified a level of pain, the nurse was supposed to address it and administer a prescribed pain reliever. The abusers started in the lobbyist cabal.
Dr. Janet Woodcock, who Joketato wanted to reinstall at FDA! Could you imagine what would have happened if they got her back in?
Wuhan virus was shot across the bow also…I agree with your assessment.. 👏👏👍
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One of many shots. (Pun may or may not be intended)
Wuhan/Chapel Hill
Xi/Obama
CIA/ChiComs
Pfauci/Tedros
BFFs
When you kill a hundred thousand Americans annually, that speaks for itself IMO.
I think it does. They learned from their oppressors that using drugs is a great way subdue a population. The British learned from their ancient Roman occupiers how to rule the world. Of course there was a period of ignorance before they finally had smart enough people to re-learn that.
Bet it gave them the idea.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik testified to Congress that fentanyl is being manufactured in Canada by Mexican drug cartels. Fentanyl was developed by a Belgian doctor and chemist Paul Janssen in 1958. Opium usage in China in the 19th century had nothing to do with it.
Hope you’re right, but according to Western news reports for years coming up to a decade, China provides the precursors to make it, regardless of who does the final processing…
Just search these keywords: “fentanyl precursor china”
Mr Lutnik is wrong. Fentanyl manaufactured in Canada is for the Canadian market and the Mexican cartels have nothing to do with it. last November in BC a large fentanyl lab was shut down. The fentanyl going to the US is minimal compared to what is going in from Mexico. Since the start of 2021, U.S. border officials have seized roughly 25 kilograms of fentanyl coming in from the northern border — a relatively small amount compared to seizures on the southern U.S. border. I have seen no explanation as to how the tariffs will stop the production of fentanyl in Canada.
The U.S. trade deficit with Canada has fluctuated in recent years, but as of the most recent data available, it stands at approximately $32 billion for 2023. This figure is significantly lower than the $200 billion claimed by President Trump. Where is he getting his numbers and why has no one asked him? The U.S. trade deficit with Canada isn’t actually that big. As of 2023, it was around $32 billion. While Canada does have a trade surplus with the United States, it’s due almost entirely to oil and gas purchased by the U.S. and many of those oil and gas companies are US owned!! Three of the largest car manufacturers in Canada are US owned. These tariffs are going to be hurting US companies. HELLO!!
When we get a decent common sense government running Canada we will be spending more on defense. All we get from the Trump team is how Canada is taking advantage of poor old USA without any explanation. PLEASE somebody give us the proof and cut the BS. Canadians are asking, WHAT GOING ON?? what is the real reason for these tariffs
Cut the BS – ok – how ’bout we stop the exfiltration of wealth from the US to Canada. Canada can go sell their oil (Drill Baby Drill!!!) to their pals in China, or maybe the king of England, the Germans ??? Repatriate auto and any other mfg jobs from US-based CO’s. What does Canada have that the US cant produce here? Based on your comments above, sounds like you support becoming the 51st.
Cut the BS?? Where is the BS? Exfiltration of wealth from the US to Canada? What is that exactly. Yes let’s have all our manufacturing jobs sent to the US. Canada can lose all those jobs and nobody will be able to buy any of your manufactured goods. As a matter of fact why don’t you start making everything in the world in the US. Then the question would be, who in the world can afford to buy anything you make because we wouldn’t have any money. No I don’t support becoming the 51st state. That is a silly unrealistic proposal from someone I am very glad is now your President. The way this is going there is more likely to be a s**thole country on your northern border to go with the s**thole one on your southern border. I wish President Trump would spell out exactly what he has in mind instead of the mind games he seems to enjoy playing “The Art of the Deal”
Get a grip. Canada is brought this on its self – why should the US tax payer subsidize Canadian socialism = shithole country. Yes, reindustrialization of the US is exactly what I want. Sourced locally, made locally, consumed locally … BTW if Canada or any other country wants access to the US mkt, they can pay for that privilege. Looks like Danielle Smith may be Canada’s last-best hope.
what are you talking about??? I’m in Canada and you only have to look at Brampton to see WE’VE ALREADY BECOME a s**thole country! Canada makes nothing here! We’ve allowed China to manufacture everything and we only assemble so that China can take advantage of the USMCA over CANADIANS! We squander just about every natural resource yet force the taxpayers to pay for all our so called empathetic policies. Including one of the most wasteful Health programs on the planet – The only so called Canadians not sick are the ones that just landed with an $80,000 per year tax free Government handout. No politician in Canada has denied the unfair trade balance. Not a one. No politician is interested in removing illegals that are criminals. No politician is interested in cleaning up the opiods on the streets of our once treasured Cities (Hastings in Vancouver for ex.). Newly arrived invaders are released in less than 3 years for raping our Canadian children, while REAL Canadians who stand up for righteousness are threatened with 15+ for “mischief”. I think you’re on the wrong site. The treehouse intellects aren’t gonna fall for your CBC propaganda BS. They’ve seen this playbook decades ago and are in the last quarter of the Superbowl ready to finish off the enemy. Canada along with their WEF partners are part of that. Just sayin’…
I do hope that the good citizens of Canada can rid their beautiful country from the insane and evil politicians running it now Andy D.
Hopefully Canada can once again become a strong country that the USA can partner with to benefit both countries.
Oh my… where to even begin with this utter lack of understanding economics.
Relax Alex T, few here in the USA want Canada as our 51st state.
We might consider making you one of our Territories like Puerto Rico though.
( If Dexter our Canadian friend read this I want him to know that many of us here in the US respect and consider individual Canadians great friends. Not the Canadian gov or whackjobs that post intellectually bizarre comments here on our Treehouse.)
The “…relatively small amount…” seized coming across from the northern border is not necessarily an indicator of the total quantity of fentanyl actually entering the US from Canada.
Yes and the amount seized coming across the Mexican border is not necessarily an indicator of the total quantity of fentanyl actually entering the US from Mexico. Our smaller problem is much easier to deal with than the mamoth problem that has been allowed to develop on the southern border over the past 4 years.
“…Our smaller problem…” is based on what facts?
Or is that simply another assumptive notion?
OTOH it is large of you to acknowledge that a “problem” exists, but still disappointing that you choose to deflect to the “southern border”.
I suggest that you get started dealing with your “smaller problem” instead of whining about the consequences of failing to do so.
Here is a fellow Canadians point view, and one who is a 5 minute drive from the border, and is quite literally looking at Blaine Washington as I plonk away.
It is my opinion that many Canadians mock Americans, I listen to it daily whether at the aquatic centre or in the grocer store.
Hawaii Florida, Arizona, California or Las Vegas are locations where numerous Canadians have second homes.
The arrogance of many in the over sixty five ( I am in that group) or so age group is something to behold.
They tend to be those that watch the CBC or CTV, and inherited money via our real estate boom, or are on government pensions.
We have been the beneficiary of having the U.S. as our ONLY neighbour. When I ask an entitled one, how would we fare if the U.S. had not purchased Alaska and we were now bordered by Russia..the look is like that one would get from a three year old.
You say we will spend more money on defence, that really is naive. We have Canadian troops in Europe that are sent care packages from relatives of food and other essentials.
Trudeau’s draconian and fascist dictates have turned
at least one generation of young thinking Canadians very much towards President Trump.
A very recent poll done here in Canada among the 18-35 year old group has over 50% voting to join the U.S.A.
On energy our Enbridge ( ENB) a massive owner of gas and other pipelines, bought a sizeable amount of pipeline in the U.S.A. in 2024.
I guess they know the “ Green new deal” was not quite what it was advertised as.
Cheers!
Hello Dekester, you must be in Black Rock?
I’m just across the border in Lynden!
Lol..nice one!
We attended President Trumps rally in your beautiful town in 2016.
Cheers!
I was born and raised in southern Arizona Dexter.
I live in Colorado now but visit family down there several times a year.
There are many Canadians from BC who have winter homes where I visit my family and they are wonderful people.
My family has many Canadian friends and they look forward to seeing them each October.
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History doesn’t repeat but if often rhymes. Using a tactic your once-occupiers used on you against them is smart. The British used opium to subdue the population, it makes sense for the Chinese to try it against the West having seen how effective it was.
Sin, and the love of money. An old game with old rewards and penalties.
Your condensed history isn’t wrong, and except around the edges isn’t much varied today from the patterns of the past.
The rise and fall of the opium-fueled Sassoon dynasty, the ‘Rothschilds of the East’In ‘Sassoon,’ Prof. Joseph Sassoon tells how his distant family of Baghdadi Jews fled to India and built an empire on the legal narcotics trade, hobnobbing with the British royals
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-opium-fueled-sassoon-dynasty-the-rothschilds-of-the-east/
Teva pharmacuticals pressed millions of blue 30 milligram rapid release oxycodone tablets, many of which ended up on the streets Florida and then the rest of the Country from ’98-’11..
The slippery slope of that mess…
Those who have a legitimate need for higher level pain medication, have great difficulty in obtaining it.
A friend fell and broke his collarbone in a small town in NC about six years ago.
Went to get him at the hospital, he was in agony, they wouldn’t give him anything stronger than an NSAID.
Nurse came in, I asked why this is protocol.
She told me the locals would slam their hands in doors to come to the ER for ” legal” oxys.
Instead of trying to learn and to tell the difference between a real need for strong pain meds and a junkie coming for a high, the medical community just denied legal meds to those in real need.
My uncle, who has his own family practice, said he saw an uptick in suicide from serious chronic pain patients who were unable to obtain badly needed medications and who were responsible in their use.
I know it. I abandoned my medical dependency to try and forge my own path with cannabis bread. The bread works great. Me, not so much. No one wants to hire me with prescribed morphine or recommend (can’t be prescribed) cannabis in my system.
Chronic pain patients always get the shaft.
Yep. “The blues” were the hottest thing around. Them and Roxy’s. I lost 5 or so friends to that crap. Got two of them detoxed after interventions. I never want to go through that again. It was awful. And all of these guys and gals were from good homes.
Yep.
When you say, “UK” be sure to say One World Central. We are NO LONGER slave to the Royals Industrial Complex.
Indeed Lightbringerer,
If you saw all the mansions around, Dundee, Glasgow, Liverpool and Bristol (the main slave ports) you would not need to ask yourself who/what paid for them.
Mostly now rundown. but badly needed to house our new ‘guests’
I was born in Dundee, at the D.R.I. and know of what you speak.
Cheers!
So how deep do these currents run in terms of causal analysis or moral culpability – hard to tell where this post hoc ergo propter hoc thinking leads?
England has been populated for thousands of years. The Romans invaded and conquered major Briton locations in the first century AD and had a legacy of large wealth and trade growth that lasted for centuries. Are the Italian descendants to be held accountable? Or the Anglo-Saxon Germanic tribes that assumed power establishing the Seven Kingdoms?
How does this theory work when there are actions/events that both abet and militate the interests of a country?
Mercantilism applied as national economic policy at scale found a home in England. But the first applications and writings on this faulty concept for aggregating national wealth started in Italian city states and France. The dismantling of mercantilist thinking and policy also started in England with foundation thinking spurred by Adam Smith and classical economists.
These applications of power, quests for national wealth, have been energized by new ways of defining power, new ways of organizing a society’s productive capabilities, new ideologies propelling revolutions (e.g., Russia). How do isolated events that at times aid and others undercut our historical trajectory summarize to a generalized friend/foe relationship?
You may be interested in some of these my friend. Ignore the Prussia angle, it’s irrelevant to your question, but various articles trace your inquiry.
Table of Contents – by Will Zoll – Prussia Gate
The single most direct cause of the opioid epidemic in the US is the creation – and marketing – of OxyContin by the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma in the 1990’s.
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/984870694/in-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-sacklers-opioid-empire-an-american-dream-turns-toxic
I use the NPR link because it illustrates why the Pharma-funded attacks by Democrat senators on RFK Jr are going to severely harm them with their own voters.
Regulatory capture of the Senate and FDA by Pharma is exactly the same way Purdue Pharma paid doctors to push OxyContin on unsuspecting Americans.
People as famous as Rush Limbaugh and Brett Favre got swept up in it. And little people like my cousin got killed by it.
It was the unspoken elephant in the hearing room.
China offshored it to use fentanyl as a weapon of war against America. But we did this to ourselves by allowing Pharma to control the airwaves and the government.
“This newscast brought to you by Pfizer.”
Circa 2020 thru 2022
Insidious.
I am surprised you did not mention the name Rothschild.
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Absolutely…
Opium addiction and its trafficking were a serious problem in China long before the Opium War. I believe Emperor Qian Long banned it in 1736. But it already had a thousand year history in China.
Btw, opium was legal to import into the US until about 1915. It was smuggled to evade the high tariff. You could buy seized opium from US Customs at the appraisers office. Although opium was legal, violent Tong Wars broke out over distribution and sale.
I actually don’t care about the history. WE didn’t do that and nothing that happened to IMPERIAL CHINA has anything to do with what’s coming from COMMUNIST CHINA. They are very different governments.
The Chinese Communist Party probably owes its existence to the British opium trade. Without the massive societal decay inflicted by opium the Qing dynasty might never have fallen, the 1911 revolution might never have happened and the 1920 formation of the Chinese Communist Party might never have occurred or gotten traction.
The CCP hates western civilization and capitalism and wants them destroyed. All Marxist movements hate western civilization and capitalism and want them destroyed. It is fundamental to their philosophy.
China is using fentanyl as one of their weapons. But their motivation is ideological not because of Chinese history. They only point to the opium-wars as an excuse and a smokescreen.
Covid was not revenge for some western-imposed epidemic
Chinese predatory trade is not revenge for some western-imposed trade imbalance.
Other countries should pay to enrich Americans, NOT vise versa.
CREAT USA PRODUCTS.
INCENTIVIZED COMPANIES TO RELOCATE TO USA
BUY USA PRODUCTS.
PDJT renamed a Mountain Mt McKinley for a reason.
(President) Trump Is Right About McKinley“The most underrated president” was a model of successful governance in a world in flux.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-is-right-about-mckinley/
I didn’t like it when Buraq changed the name of Mt. McKinley.
New neighbors moved into a newly renovated house with all new appliances not quite 5 years ago. The dishwasher already quit working and the refrigerator is currently in the driveway, presumably waiting to be hauled away.
“Say hello to my little friends,” made me laugh out loud.
Should eliminate foreign ownership of our land and natural resources as well. Let ’em own a business if they want to invest, but not the soil/water/minerals/etc. it stands on. And no foreign ownership or administration of our ports.
This isn’t Biden 2.0 you’re dealing with! Time to get the spigot open to our oil! Get our economy humming again! Republicans may not be the answer to the problems, but Democrats caused them!
What happened in Russia due to the sanctions is that almost overnight, as imports (and most western businesses) stopped there, the ‘slack’ was immediately taken up by Russian businesses and entrepreneurs. For example, Starbucks became Stars Coffee, now a Russian business. The consumer barely felt a difference. And Russian domestic business and manufacturing boomed.
soooo it goes same with McDonald’s……
Common Sense governance: Economic security IS National security and it really is as simple as that!
You want to better understand China? Listen to this.
All Americans interested in geopolitics need to wrap their heads around facts like this. Disaster awaits you if you don’t.
The Unstoppable Rise of China – Nelson Wong, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
Were those quotes from this century or the last? Hard to tell. They don’t apply anymore, anymore than an IPO for a buggy-whip start up would apply on the NYSE, these days…
Our trade deficit with China would beg to differ sir……………………………………….
That’s your fault, not China’s.
If it isn’t your fault, then why isn’t it? Did China MAKE you import more than you export to it, or did you elect scum who decided to do that for their own corrupt and selfish reasons?
And if it’s the latter, then who’s fault is that? Is it China, who took advantage of a corrupt political system in a foreign country it didn’t control, or is it your fault, for tolerating said corruption to exist in your own system, which you, supposedly and presumably, controlled?
And BTW, when are you ever going to hold the political scum in your own country to account for breaking the economic back of your own country? Or are you just going to pretend it wasn’t your fault, it was because of third parties who merely took advantage of the opportunity?
You are obviously very misinformed sir. China illegally poured in tens of millions of dollars to stop Pat Buchanan from winning the 96 GOP Primary, and to steal the elections to get their traitor China owned President Bill Clinton in. You don’t remember ChinaGate? Or were you not a citizen of America at that time or perhaps now?
OK, you’re obviously thoughtful, so here’s my take.
Chinese offshoring was funded by the Western financial interests, primarily Rothschild subsidiaries, who also funded the CCP since its birth. Where else did China get the finance from to build its factories to take over the offshored manufacturing the same financiers had incentivised the West to undertake courtesy of providing massive bonuses to CEO’s and the execs for increasing shareholder value by offshoring both IP and labour to other lower wage countries?
China, as a country, saw the benefits, and despite knowing it was corrupt, said ok, why not? Enabled by Clinton and ALL US Administrations since then, till Trump 45, China prospered while the rust belt grew and grew and grew.
Now we are where we all are. Countries and individuals.
Whose at fault?
IMO, the financial enablers. Period.
You didn’t answer Collitto’s question: based on your prior posts, I am left to assume that you are not a US citizen. It is certainly easy to stand north of our great nation and toss commentary bombs about cleaning out and prosecuting corrupt politicians. Perhaps start with your own and we will go from there but until then, I don’t believe your trolling is productive.
No I’m from New Zealand and I said that here when I first started commenting. I don’t frankly understand why my nationality is relevant. This is a political blog and the fact I’m not American doesn’t mean I understand nothing about America or Americans or American politics. It doesn’t mean I understand everything about any of those subjects, either. But to the extent I’m reasonably versed in these subject areas, I say what I like within the boundaries of the comment policies. Feel free to criticise politics in New Zealand if you like, if this makes you feel any better. I can give you some sites. Let me know.
Why don’t you start with your own country first, and then tell us how you were successful?
Totally agree. I get very irritated with so many foreigners coming here with their views of American politics. Worry about your own damn country. I couldn’t care less about New Zealand politics.
I disagree with many of Lightbringer’s posts…but the one you just replied to…he is spot on with that one.
This exactly. China is just pragmatic with what we allow. How would they buy farmland if we didn’t allow it for example?
Very key point Colkitto. The crooks from Arkansas, the Chinese, the CIA and a hole in the USA
Coin-Operated Rent-a-Clintons
even VSGPDJT said chineese just advantage of our corrupt/america last ….political system 1993-2016….you can realy blame them….
Blah Blah Blah Save your doom and gloom.
you do not like hear naked truth as f* dems/uni party..saaad……
China’s Han Supremacist Military Dictatorship will fall.
Yes, Lord!
China is falling apart at the seams.
“The first major bill passed by Congress was the Tariff Act of 1789.
Weeks later, Washington imposed tonnage taxes all foreign shipping. The U.S. Merchant Marine was born.”
Did Tariffs Make America Great?
https://buchanan.org/blog/did-tariffs-make-america-great-129752?doing_wp_cron=1738318946.3717849254608154296875
“As our Revolution was about political independence, the first words and acts of our constitutional republic were about ensuring America’s economic independence.
“A free people should promote such manufactures as tend to render them independent on others for essentials, especially military supplies,” said President Washington in his first message to Congress.”
What happened to USMCA I thought that was suppose to make
our trade more fair?
The Chinese moved into Canada and Mexico and established (or bought) factories there to get around the tariffs.
Agreed, this is how China intends to flood the US with their vehicles. It would’ve killed the Automotive Industry had Kamala been elected.
Trafficking in drugs & human beings is the crux of this matter. Trade deficits are just another justification. And btw, trade deals only work when they’re abided by & enforced.
When Trump was removed from office, they immediately went back to disrespecting the USA. Simple enough?
It is going to take Keven “happy” Hassett all day practicing in front of a mirror to come up with a wolverine snarl like that and not be his usual smiling self!
<chuckles>
Doesn’t matter if he smiles or not. His policy is snarling at the economic enemies of the U.S.
Right you are!
THE NEW SAYING FAFO WELL MEXICO AND CANADA YOUR ABOUT TO FIND OUT.
AS FOR OUR SANCTUARY CITES NOT COMPLYING WITH ICE …….CUT FUNDING ASAP
This what I voted for.
When do we do something about the economic enemies of the people right here in this country?
In Health Care, for example, Insurance companies and large hospital systems have gutted the U.S. physician workforce, and is economically putting physicians out of business — especially those physicians attempting to practice medicine that is patient centered and based on true science, or medicine that supports actually spending time with the patient and in patient care.
Most large hospital systems, especially in rural areas are closing primary care practices or turning them into walk in clinics (which is not primary care). The scope of services in rural and mid town America is shrinking, not expanding.
Mid Level NPs and PAs are delivering more and more care, with MD supervision only on paper, and increasingly provided by physicians willing to be paid for only the appearance of supervision rather than having actual control of the care and training of the mid-level staff.
We have encoded into law that profits of companies must be supported by shareholder board, and no attention to mission statements or quality, unless it is enforced by more government bureaucracy and subsequent cost.
As a result, our hard earned money in labor (through taxes and “benefits”) that is earmarked for our health care (4 Trillion dollars or 20% of the US GDP) is being siphoned off, mis used, and diverted. U.S. healthcare outcomes, efficiency, and the health of U.S. Citizens is falling, not rising.
The same trends in the industries of Education, Sports, Art and Entertainment, manufacturing, retail sales, housing, agriculture are happening: Large corporations are out competing (with very little regard to quality, ethics) the ability for economic development by the average citizens of this country: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
IMHO, the industries left the US proper in search of lower wages, less-intrusive regulations, freedom from frivolous lawsuits, and yes, greed to increase profits. All to the demise of the missle class in the US.
This is true, but it’s also because we have allowed far too many mergers over the last 35 years. I remember beginning in the Clinton years seeing all the mergers being allowed and knowing what the outcome would be. And here we are today with hollowed out downtowns, big box stores everywhere, limited choices, high prices and low wage jobs. Everything our government has encouraged has been anti-competitive in nature, and the damage is evident everywhere you look.
All controlled 1 tier up by BigPharma.
Mid Level NPs and PAs are delivering more and more care, with MD supervision only on paper, and increasingly provided by physicians willing to be paid for only the appearance of supervision rather than having actual control of the care and training of the mid-level staff.
In a lot of states NPs and PAs practice independently. In my experience NPs and PAs over order labs and imaging and over refer to specialists because they lack the requisite knowledge and training as physicians. All of these things drive up healthcare costs. Corporations love NPs and PAs because they work “cheaper”, but in the end we all pay more.
I think the end goal in health care is to bring about “medicare for all”. Lower the standards of upper middle/middle class and raise lower class…to be all the same. Marx would be so proud/s.
Average folks take care of the whole world…the rich and the poor…and we suffer for it.,
Here I go again…we need another Audit…of the nuances of the legal subspecialty called “Corporate Law”, lets add “International Law” while we are at it?
Still healthy….not suicidal…
That was real Obamacare purpose.
What about the poor of Wall St – have a heart Sundance {S}
Peters is the worst sort of thuggish liar. As a Marxocrat, that azzhole voted for everything sick, degenerate, criminal act his fellow crooks in the Marxocrat Party have cursed this benighted land with during his entire tenure in government. It’s sickening to listen to his bullzhite trying to come off as having concern about the poor ol’ suckers in Michigan even as he steals their elections and floods his state with illegal aliens who take US jobs. Eff Peters!
Excellent. Everyone talks about the southern border. Look at a map of the New York and Vermont orders. Wide open.. The mount of drugs pouring in through our northern border is astounding.
https://x.com/jackposobiec/status/1885100869664030848?s=57
Will the left and their liberal to non-existant border enforcement acknowledge tariffs on imported Canadian lumber is due to their willing ignorance?
Prepare yourself for the outrage! Exorbitant costs to rebuild Palisades caused by, you guessed it…Trump.
And our canoe full of pancakes? Domestic syrup only!
Vermont syrup is better. Stick construction is really silly in fire/hurricane/tornado prone areas.
Vermont maple syrup please….the dark variety…
Eh.. plenty of locally made maple syrup can be found in Somerset county, Maine.
Lots of local businesses and farm stands carry it.
TSA busted the Mrs. and I
at Logan Airport for smuggling too much VT syrup in our carry-on.
It was worth the effort!
Huh? there are plenty of states that make wonderful syrup.
Yes. That’s what I meant by domestic.
All – Study steel and aluminum prices from 2018 to early 2021… Steel dropped 23%, aluminum 24%.
Wow. As a Canadian and prolific reader of this site, I’m wondering if the tarriffs wont hurt both our economies. I think people forget there are still good Canadians out there rooting for Pres. Trump, in addition to rooting for someone equally strong to lead our country and Pollievre is not our solution. It will be interesting to see where all this ends up. (I’m from Ontario btw).
I say that about Pollievre because in the early days he banned unvaxxed people from attending his speeches, (I am unvaxxed against C19), and because he undemocratically forced a candidate into our riding and made sure no one else could run against him by using blakmail and other means to dissuade good people from running… We are in trouble!!
I agree, I am from British Columbia, and really want to see Trump succeed in turning things around. It makes it real hard to promote his agenda with others I know with the continued lumping Canada in with Mexico. We are so interconnected with trade we are almost like a state right now. Targeted tariffs would make more sense!
I believe this is more about China than Canada or Mexico. China has extended their Belt and Road policy into the Americas. This cannot stand, it will likely be painful for all of us.
The Canada/US relationship was probably the best in human history until the rise of China. I do not blame that rise on Canada or Mexico. I blame that rise on the traitors in my own government.
Yes
I remember many years of Maine’s economy being hollowed out between the paper mills going under and locals being unable to make a decent living working in the woods as their families have for generations prior.
Imported lumber undercutting American sourced lumber is just one point of contention up for debate.
Understood R F, I feel like we are going to have to ride it out and see where it takes us. Canada is a rudderless ship right now. And that is troubling.
Trump’s always had it right on this. Even with Xi, he’s cordial, and doesn’t assign blame to China. Just says we’ve been stupid, which we have. It’s on us. He accepts that job.
And should tariff them to kingdom come. I assume that’s coming over the shouts and lamentations of loony professors everywhere.
It’s going to be an interesting week. Ontario is preparing to remove all American liquor from the LCBO stores if tariffs are introduced. Bourbon drinkers and fans of Florida OJ may be the first to feel the pain. And FWIW and as a regular crosser, there is a noticeable increase in the number of trucks heading toward the US being stopped before they get to the border on the Canadian side. It’s a noticeable change.
Canada has a three-round retaliation planned, according to a senior government source, which would start by singling out a small list of American-made consumer products such as Kentucky bourbon and Florida orange juice. This targeting would be followed by tariffs on a longer list of U.S. goods worth $37 billion, and then if needed, Canada would hit an additional $110 billion in manufacturing and other products with trade action.
https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2025/01/30/trump-confirms-significant-tariffs-on-canadian-imports-coming-saturday-says-oil-may-or-may-not-be-included/
Single industry callouts will not help the Canadians. It will definitely ramp up the tit for tat. Wonder which can play that the longest?
Removing product from stores will HURT Canadian owners of THOSE STORES (and the Canadians who love the product: Bourbon). Their revenue will decrease. Canada’s plan will be to print more money to subsidize. Which will create more inflation and devalue it’s pathetic currency further. All to say when the offer to purchase the 51st state comes in, it will be much cheaper! Brilliant move by so called Canadian leaders lolol… Trump is way ahead of the pack…
Removing a product from the shelves already paid for by the LCBO and sitting in a Canadian warehouse is a boneheaded move. (But Ford is a bonehead so it makes sense that he would propose this.) A person with even average intelligence would at least sell what they have in stock to recoup their costs and collect revenue.
Yup! Same as when US liquor stores took Russian vodka off their shelves.
Canada’s climate means they need the USA more than we need them when it comes to food.
THEN STOP FUNDING THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!!
International Organization for Migration | IOM, UN Migration
https://www.iom.int/funding-and-donors/united-states-america
The United States of America is IOM’s top donor and its contributions form the foundation of the support received by the Organization. This generous funding is primarily provided through the Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and the Agency for International Development (USAID). [There is that CIA front group again! – W]
Erik Prince Details How We Are Funding Our Own Invasion And Destruction (9:58)
Bannon’s War Room
1 May 2024
https://rumble.com/v4sqdnf-erik-prince-details-how-we-are-funding-our-own-invasion-and-destruction.html
The UN’s Annual $8 Billion Budget to Support Global Migration
Another reason to stop funding the United Nations
ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
JAN 31, 2024
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-uns-annual-8-billion-budget-to
How China and the UN are Fueling the Invasion of America
Tucker Carlson
1 Feb 2024
I miss Hassett as Sid the sloth. He’s just always so happy when anyone wants to talk about the economy with him. Truly one of a kind.
Hassett is a Quokkarine.
But, they can =withstand= “100% western tariffs.” Just as Russia has survived intended-to-be debilitating sanctions. That’s the point.
What will happen is that other nations who did NOT emasculate their own manufacturing capacity will cease to trade with you. Better have a shoe-factory of your own, first …
One of many reasons Russia survived and prospered under “US Sanctions” is their relative homogeneous population and nationalism. Most of the NATO countries have gleefully neutralized all homogeneous feelings and nationalism within their own country to satisfy Wokism and Globalism. That catastrophe is just beginning to destroy many things for a very long time.
..and start processing URANIUM on our own…….
Russia did survive the sanctions.
Most Americans have no family or friends in Russia who can tell them how hard these sanctions on them really were.
We saw videos of grocery stores overflowing with products and assumed that Russians were not suffering at all.
Putin did the best he could with this but it was not easy and the Russian citizens were not living without some stress and misery.
Spain is surelu scr*wed now.
“They can go find another sucker nation”.
My favorite line from this Pres Trump tweet.
It pretty much sums up our foreign policy under Donald Trump.
Right now history has nothing to do with this. Dealing with the reality we face is more important.
“I’ll be putting the tariff of 25 percent on Canada, and separately, 25 percent on Mexico, and we’ll really have to do that,” Trump told reporters while signing executive orders focused on aviation safety.
Trump cited a “number of reasons” for doing so. “No. 1 is the people that have poured into our country so horribly and so much. No. 2 are the drugs, fentanyl and everything else that has come into the country. And No. 3 are the massive subsidies we are giving to Canada and to Mexico in the form of deficits,” Trump said.
Where is the proof in these statements. What massive subsidies is he talking about because there is no $200 billion trade deficit with Canada. He has many supporters in Canada but this stuff is starting to piss people off
Good, after what Canada did during Covid to their own people, I hope they all rot in their communist hell.
Canada is not our friend or ally until they change.
Well thank you for that hate filled reply. Compared to what the US did to their own people, how are we any different? Change what exactly?? Hopefully we get rid of Fidel Trudeau in the next election and bring some common sense back to ”our communist hell”. The $200 billion trade deficit number is wrong period.
I don’t know, why don’t you ask Artur Pawlowski?
I know who he is. One of many Canadians treated like children by our Fed and Provincial governments during the COVID 19 hoax. Bet you had that problem in the US
If you’re trying to lean on true blue calculated trade deficit, you’re lost. Our economy is ginormous and I would expect the US to run a trade deficit with Canada. The problem is in the spaces where we overpay to subsidize industry. PDJT is ending that. He’s doesn’t give a crap about BOP related stats relative to Canada.
Get China in there and add a huge foreign worker tax on H1Bs, making their pricing in line with Americans. I suspect we’ll see some very quick adjusting begin to happen. All of the yapping dogs need access to our economy.
Perhaps Canadians should focus their anger where it belongs-
On their politicians, who sold their souls to China.
… I’m in Canada…. Trudeau is an ideological dead ender… the Liberals are trying, and looks like they’ll succeed, in replacing him with Carney who’s even worse.
You need to finally break it off with the Crown.
Anger?? Why can’t somebody just answer my questions.. From where is Donald Trump getting his $200 billion trade deficit? Why is no one questioning that? Believe me most of us are focused on our useless politicians and hope that is going to change shortly.
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Ask the Lightbringerer guy to answer your questions- He seems to know everything.
HaHa, really good one Bigdog!
From the politico article sited above:
“Canada exported more than $110 billion worth of oil and other energy products to the United States. Both Canada and Mexico also exported hundreds of billions worth of industrial and consumer goods to customers in the United States.”
“U.S. agricultural imports from Canada include more than $10 billion worth of fruits and vegetables, $9 billion of grains and feed, $6.5 billion of oilseeds, $6 billion of livestock and meats, and $4.5 billion of sugar and tropical products.”
Those (Canadians?) asking how PDJT comed up with $200 Billion, should perhaps bear in mind how China, and the EU Nato countries each rip off the U.S. for 1/2 a Trillion $, but not in the same way.
China uses IP theft, dumping, closed markets, etc.
EU/NATO countries first off underfund NATO, KNOWING and depending on the U.S. to “make up the difference, and its relatively easy to give your people subsidised health care, generous pensions etc. when you aren’t spending $ on a military.
Likewise, Canada depends on the U.S. to protect them, so that has to be figured in.
Seecondly, EU has outrageously high tarrifs, as well as outright bans of some U.S. products, try to buy a Ford pickup in Germany, for example.
Canada still, IIRC has a 299% tariff on American Dairy, which obviously might as well be a ban.
Finally, PDJT often makes some seemingly outrageous statement, in order to “trigger” a responce and a discussion, and its highly likey that his figure IS accurate, when you take in ALL of the economic consequences.
No doubt especially when you consider our defense spending alone to protect them.
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I did find this in a recent business article. I don’t think the surplus is actually 200 billion, it was 67 billion in 2023.
“When President-elect Donald Trump recently floated the idea of annexing Canada, a key reason he gave was a claim that the United States was “losing $200 billion a year” to its northern neighbor.
Speaking at Mar-a-Lago last week, Trump didn’t specify what constituted the $200 billion, but he used the figure in the context of how the US “subsidized” Canada and also had a “massive” trade deficit for items — such as cars and lumber — that he said the US does not need.
The lion’s share of the $200 billion was attributed to US defense spending of which Canada directly benefits, and the remainder is from the trade deficit, a Trump-Vance transition official told CNN.”
In 2023, the US had a trade deficit of $67.9 billion dollars with Canada, Commerce Department data shows.
I believe when he made that statement he referenced the Biden administration and said, “over the past 4 years”. The trade deficit with Canada is the highest it’s been in 20 years. I think that’s due mainly to oil we import from Canada so I expect that to change once oil production ramps up here. Doubt we’ll be buying a lot of EV batteries from Canada either.
When he mentions subsidies he may be talking about defense. Being a next door neighbor to a huge military powerhouse allows Canada to spend less on her own defense and military. I don’t think they even spend 3% which is a minimum amount PDJT mentioned.
I remember a quote I saw in an ice cream store as a kid: that there’s always someone who can make things a little cheaper, and “those who consider price alone are that man’s lawful prey.”
We have embraced “lower prices” that we literally transformed “the [industrial] arsenal of democracy” into a country that today cannot(!) make its own SHOES.
Tariffs used to be routinely used to protect our interests, and other nations paid them to get access to our noticeably-better stuff, and we prospered.
But, we never allowed foreign interests to “own,” therefore to “control,” those interests. “US Steel” was, by gawd, owned by “U.S.!”
I agree that it makes sense to produce what is needed yourself. I would go even further and say that as much as possible should be done locally, especially for food. There are good reasons for trade though when you don’t have something yourself.
There is also the matter of what happens during the transition period. All cars that Americans want to buy can be manufactured in the United States but right now they are not and the flow of parts etc across the Canada/ US border is substantial both ways.
There are vital things that the USA presently gets from Canada. Ninety per cent of the potash used in fertilizers in the US comes from Saskatchewan.
Lutnick was worthwhile viewing, thank you.
There are way too many comments irrelevant to the topic, and frankly, unenlightened propaganda.
But I am wondering, how long will Canada and Mexico hold out before folding? My sense is, “Not long.”
My concern, as a Canadian, is that if our economy starts to really suffer because of the tariffs it becomes much more palatable to pursue relationships with other countries. How long before China starts to really set up shop along the U.S./Canada border?
Or we start exporting our vast resources to unsavoury parts of the world?
One of the reasons America is beefing up our military.
Because of what your write about Canada looking for some unsavory allies and being so close to us.
The USA has finally woken up to the reality that it lives in a world that wants to destroy us.
We will probably strengthen our defences on our physical borders as well as our ideological ones.
Folding?? Into what? How about somebody explains to us exactly what it is you want. Fentanyl crossing the border from Canada is no where near what is coming in from Mexico. Trump is wrong on the $200 billion trade deficit.
What is it you want America???
They’re not stopping the fentanyl, period. That is the issue.
I note that no one has answered your question.
Because we owe no one outside of America an answer.
On anything American.
It makes relationships a little tricky–I punish my children but I don’t tell them what they need to do to stop the punishment
I answered it above.
yes I saw that but still unclear as to what exactly needs to be achieved–no fentanyl at all but then how do you know you achieved this–no interdictions does not mean nothing is going across
I agree WB.
That goober from Columbia will probably hold the record but it will not take long for others to fold also.
Retired Magistrate here: I’m old and having trouble keeping up with all the winning; but I’ll try. Just think, six months ago they tried to assassinate President Trump and now look; the Lion roars!
I was thinking of you the other day…hope you are well…I think the winning is just getting started.
So true Marcia!
It is hard to believe that Donald Trump has been our president for only about a week and a half.
“Hit’em up! Roll’em out! Rawhide!
Mr. Lutnick presents the information very clearly. I appreciate this.
And as Mr. Lutnick politely explained to the Senator, Detroit needs to make their own parts, not import them from Canada.
I can personally attest to the fact that tariffs do not increase the cost of goods. I distribute promotional products. A lot of product is manufactured in China or other countries then imprinted in the US. Sometimes I will purchase direct from China. During the first Trump administration I had orders for the same goods actually go down in cost.
The inflation is not from tariffs, it is from printing money.
They want and need to keep selling goods to Americans. They know if the cost goes up, they will lose business.
People know Mexico is a failed Narco state anbd run by cartels and they know where the facilities are in which the products and money is held.
All the “experts” are screaming about tariffs being the worst thing and the end of all life on this planet.
It’s amazing that no “expert”:
– understands tariffs
-cites the reality of deflation during President Trumps first term
-explains these provide a finacial incentive to move production BACK to the USA
-reduce federal debt
-can offset taxation on citizens
eff all these other bloodsucking countries that exfiltrated all our wealth, knowledge, and technology. They reap what they have sown.
My one and only disappointment is that it won’t happen on a Tuesday. Make “Tariff Tuesday” Great Again!
Great article and interesting discussion. I too am 100% supportive of tariffs, on those countries with whom we are consistently running a balance of trade deficit.
Generally, the reason for a deficit is that our markets are more open to their goods and services than their markets are to our products. Many countries are protecting their own industries. We MUST also.
up in the great north woods, they cut all our trees down, and then take them over to canada to make into lumber, then they ship it back. That’s why I get any lumber I need from a small local mill. F canada….
Why don’t we go after remittances?
What makes you think they won’t?
Strange how we used to be able to make affordable cars made almost from 100% American made parts, and most of the parts were metal. Yet today cars are crazy expensive and made of cheap plastic parts from outside the US.
Maybe we should ask why that is.
Government mileage standards is my guess as to why we are seeing so much plastic. It is much lighter than metals. My little car is around a ton and a half. 1950s cars were heavy metal, a couple of tons. It takes a lot more gas to power a beast of a car. The other reason may be cost. Metal prices going up.
The reason that many “Experts” are mystified by the Foreign Policy exercised by President Trump, is the underlying basis of those policies, which were NOT the norm for other modern Presidential Administrations.
One only has to listen to what President Trump says when discussing international relationships and RECALL all he tried to do 2017-2020, which lead to 4-years of NO NEW armed conflicts, no NEW US entanglements in disputes outside our borders and growth around the globe…not just the US.
His goals are NOT to replace regimes nor dictate how they do business within their own borders.
War and armed aggression are last resorts vs diplomacy and economic discussions…the polar opposite of the norms..threaten with the stick first then try to “maybe” talk…used over the past 50+ years by the Corrupted Long Term Diplomats of the US…including 50% for the Big Guy Payments to buy support from the US Government.
His goals are to seek arrangements whereby both participants gain something if possible, with maximizing the welfare of the US as well as US Citizens his primary focus.
He clearly states there will be a fairness and balance in ALL deals …. that means if a nation has a command economy (China Inc.), uses its legal system and regulations to the detriment of the US (EU, India and others), etc. … there will be like response from the US until a fair balance is struck. This is a departure from the “free market” BS spewed as the norm..that always leaves the US with a “bad deal”. There is no free market as EVERY nation seeks to dominate for some reason…reasons good and bad…that is why he uses the term “fair market”.
So…in this case Canada and Mexico are acting as agents and conduits for China Inc. and the Open Borders desires of the Global Financial Masters of DAVOS and BIS in Switzerland. They are being used as transit points for increasing flows of illegals, increasing flows human trafficking as well as transit points for foreign goods under the resurrected terms of NAFTA put in place by JoeBama’s regime.
The BS of Canada Producing fentanyl domestically for their own consumption is missing a key fact … Canada is a primary knock off production spot for Big Pharma “generics” and China inc., Canadian “generic” product is being trafficked across US Borders freely because of an abused TRUST that has our very long border with Canada UNGUARDED….and our long border with Mexico openly controlled by the Cartels. Some of the pro-Canadian posters here seem to think drug runners and human traffickers report their stats to both governments…so no reports by the traffickers means no illegal traffic.
History is nice as reference and even serves to provide some rationale … it ‘s time to face reality and that the US for at least the next 4-years will have a Chief Executive and Sometimes a Legislative Branch as well as Judicial Branch doing work they promised which got them elected … focus on the well being inside our own “secure” borders.
History
Thank you, Sundance!
“Personally, I would prefer to see 100% import tariffs on all goods, all of them, every product imported from another country, driving the prices of those products up big time.
Essentially, CTH holds a viewpoint seeing through all the manipulative economic gaslighting over the past several decades. Real results from 2017 through 2020 proved that targeted tariffs do not ever raise the price to U.S. consumers, and now with the added benefit of watching in real time what happened in Russia due to sanctions that cut off the majority of their imports, we have an even more fact-based reason to support 100% tariffs on all import products. This will force the reindustrialization we need.
Tariffs fundamentally change the economic dynamic. Exfiltration of wealth ends and wealth creation within the USA middle-class begins again.”
^^^^^ This!
We need those tariffs to apply to outbound remittances…
There are 2 sides to this fentanyl mess. The actions of these counties and the sad state of our youth who make up the sad part of the other.
Never make the children responsible for criminal actions of the adults. It’s adults who make the sad state of the children.
Mmm…Is it mainly our youth that makes up the US use of fentanyl? I don’t know. What is the average age of fentanyl abuse and overdoses?