White House Chair of the National Economic Council (NEC), Kevin Hassett, walked out to the press pool to discuss the latest excellent inflation figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics today {BLS REPORT HERE}. However, the insufferable press pool wanted to talk about other things.
I’ll get to the BLS data below – with a gold nugget just for you, don’t share it. But first, NEC Director Hassett also let something slip in his responsive comments that most will miss.
When asked about Trump’s decision to terminate all trade negotiations with Canada, Hasset noted the discussions were frustrating, and “The Canadians were very difficult to negotiate with.” Then comes the key point (03:28), “The fact that we are now negotiating with Mexico, separately, reveals that it’s not just one add, there’s frustration that has built up.”
What Hassett just confirmed again, as if we needed more evidence, is that the trilateral trade agreement -the USMCA- is not going to exist once Trump opens it up for renegotiation. The USA team is already working on a separate bilateral trade agreement between the USA and Mexico, proactively. The USMCA is dead – we just have not made it official yet. WATCH (prompted):
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On the inflation data, the September inflation rate was 0.3 percent, much lower than all economists and pundits predicted. The tariffs are having no impact on the rise of consumer prices. In fact, the sectors with the most imported goods are the sectors with the lowest inflation.
To pull out an example, look at the apparel sector. Apparel is dominantly an imported product category, coming from China and Southeast Asia textile manufacturing factories. The apparel sector is 0.7 overall, with many of the sub-sectors significantly lower – See Table-2
To drive home the point, look at detailed TABLE-2 HERE: furniture, electronics, toys, cell phones, appliances etc. the highest imported goods sectors are all running negative inflation rates; meaning, consumer prices are factually lower even with the global tariffs in place. Imported products are NOT causing inflation; in fact, their prices are dropping.
Just like 2018 and 2019, tariffs on imported goods do not drive up consumer prices, particularly when those tariffs are connected to policy that lowers overall energy prices – transportation and shipping costs lowered. The producing countries are offsetting the tariff rates by lowering the wholesale prices.
♦ Now, a golden nugget for consideration later. Combine the value of what we import from Canada with the conversations that President Trump has had with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. Elevate your thinking, and overlay the U.S. withdrawing operational support with the NATO alliance.
Now think about those icebreakers that President Trump has ordered from Finland, and the policy initiatives within the trade agreements that are going to build arctic fleets of USA ships to ensure navigation. Russia is the closest country to the USA, and Russia has exponentially more of the same valuable raw materials that we import from Canada.
Trump is ending the USMCA. Trump has discussed a post-Ukraine war relationship with Putin. Canada is cozying up to China and the EU, and Trump has ordered icebreakers to operate in the region between the USA and Russia. Who has the largest consumer market, and who has the largest capacity to deliver raw materials in a strategic relationship based on trade. Things look a little different now?
We keep watching.
I thought the purchase of the the several Icebreaker Ships was odd…..
Greenland….
Bering Strait Tunnel…..
Arctic Sea shipping lanes….
The US icebreaker fleet is in huge need of maintenance and expansion.
The fleet is old. The Polar class was being commissioned when I was separated after my four years of active duty was completed in 1978. The last of the four Wind Class Breakers the Westwind was decommissioned in 1988.
That leaves the Healy commissioned in 1999 and the Storis which was purchased used and updated but built in 1944. The Mackinaw built in 2006 is still on the Great Lakes but that is old too and not considered an ocean going vessel.
Apparently there are 4 new big ones from Finland just placed on emergency order for the US fleet, and perhaps a collaboration agreement for building more in American shipyards under license.
That speaks volumes about where all this is heading. It seems the Effete of Ottawa may have already blown it.
The Ottawa government construct of nationhood has become unsustainable. Vanity, hubris, autocracy and provincial arrogance are not enough to keep it all together.
Starmer, the EC and the WEF aren’t coming to save them.
As always, Trump sees the bigger pieces in motion. History also happens in the darkness.
And the winning just keeps coming. Love our great President Trump!
Mexico’s strategic investments in domestic manufacturing and energy production made itself valuable to the U.S. Proximity, supply chain integration, and strong industrial growth—particularly in automotive, electronics, and energy sectors—have strengthened U.S.-Mexico trade ties. Still needs to root out the Cartels’ collaboration with the Mexican gov’t e.g. it’s still a narco-state.
While Canada ruined itself with a ridiculous level of third world replacement immigration, bending over for China, and green energy national suicide.
To hell with Mexico and Canada. Chinese and European companies built or were in the process of building that supply chain you are talking about in Mexico to beat Tariffs using the USMCA rules. Mexico can not be trusted any further than Canada can be trusted.
Carney Just went full commie.
https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1981723422313828429
Drugs from Canada? Yes Canada is a joke an a great sadness for those Canadians trapped by the Globalist Blob
You have just touched on a corp. media taboo subject.
The Davos empire has decloaked. The colonization is complete. The finer details on empire access and ruling dynasties are in play. Oligarchical nepotism is back in a very big way.
The Secretary and General Staff of the WEF NWO “Stakeholder Capitalism” (deadname marxism, with its wealth re-distributive to China “Degrowth” economic policy and social credit dissent Police policy), surprizingly welcomed national leaders (with their Central Bank entourage) at G20 and G7 meetings in an obvious way that sent the message that the central banks are part and parcel to the WEF ascension; there was no hint of official dissent or even an aggravated comment to the media by those Central Bankers.
Pro-WEF National Leaders in these first world countries where there is no First or Second Amendment (especially Europe) reminded me of Vichy French ready-to-go collaborators. They were pre-positioned in modern terms, for example, ideological aligned members for Police leadership were in place, volunteers for the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS (officers and non-coms both).
True, the WEF is no 4th Reich, but some of their policies, especially denunciations and debanking, ESG financial standover of corporations, cringe-fringe degeneration support and their appetite for malthusian eugenics…
President Trump and MAGA was the hope of the world’s oppressed in 2019 (French farmers, Hong Kong population, Italians for example) and the solution was obviously Covid.
I predict the globalist blob with their banking empire will go all out against populist prosperity that is not under their control.
MAGA will win through eventually, but mark well those wealthy elites across the globe who are the WEF collaborators. The higher up, the harder they fall.
btw, Happy United Nations Day.
Observe that the UN was irrelevant in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen, the drug cartels, and especially it plays no part in the Ukraine conflict.
..but I’m not expecting a “U.N. R.I.P.” eulogy in The Atlantic…
Exactly!!!! Wait until Alberta leaves the Canadian commonwealth!!! There will go most of Canada’s common wealth!!! JMO
Yes. The handwriting has been on the wall for several months.
President Trump has indicted his disenchantment with the USMCA several times during his cabinet meetings and in his banterings with the press. Sorry don’t have a link.
Trade with Russia has two obstacles to overcome, and while that is difficult, it is possible. First, the warmongers do not want peace with Russia, and then Russia wants to resolve root causes. Both heavily involve the deep state. Also mineral rights in Ukraine are heavily weighted towards the east of the country.
Not the easiest conflict to resolve. It will take someone who is good at strategizing.
“On October 23, 2025, President Donald Trump imposed significant new sanctions targeting Russia’s two largest oil companies, Lukoil and Rosneft, marking a sharp shift in U.S. policy after months of restraint. This move, described as “tremendous” by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, aims to cripple Russia’s ability to fund its war in Ukraine by cutting off these energy giants from the global financial system.
The sanctions go beyond previous measures by including secondary sanctions, which threaten penalties against any foreign banks, insurers, or companies that continue doing business with Lukoil and Rosneft. This could deter major buyers like China and India, who have been key purchasers of discounted Russian oil since 2022.”
India is a major distributor of Russian oil to the EU.
These sanctions will completely fail also.
The bad news: I don’t see how this doesn’t drive up oil prices in 2026, when young voters already grown impatient with PDJT vote in the midterms.
The good news: I’m not an economist.
“I don’t see how this doesn’t drive up oil prices in 2026”
usually its because the Sauds eat the diff and lower prices, up output, etc… but i wonder how much longer that will last
President Trump is ramping up oil production and refining to levels never seen before in the United States.
Drilling, fracking, off shore, and every other option that exists under the “all of the above” energy production umbrella is being increased under our President.
2026 and 2027 will be the start of a Golden Era in energy prices.
Thank you President Trump!
How about refineries? I don’t know anything about this topic, I have just heard a lot of talk, over the years, about a need for more US refineries.
Russia has already moved on from that.
Russia has captured many of those mines in the last few months. If memory serves me well, Russia took over the 2nd biggest one or biggest one recently.
The Greatest Strategist Of All Time is President Donald J. Trump.
I have stated this before, Russia and Putin should be 1 of our strongest world trading partners, not the weak Canadians or cartel heavy Mexico. Go ahead and watch the EU promise Canada and/or Mexico everything they wish for while Putin will work with us to guarantee open shipping thru Bering Strait and Greenland wants us there in their country for economic and security reasons. Denmark has it’s own problems in Europe to contend with. And there are at least 3 Canadian provinces that desire to become a part of USA in part due to the weakness of Canadian Govt and taking much more from these provinces than delivering an equal amount of funding and security. They have much more in common with USA than the eastern French dominated provinces that are growing more Socialist/Communist/Islamist every day. We should be glad/welcoming that Putin and Russia desire to be with us, and the deep state war mongers can go to hell, is the reasons why so many are sick and tired of endless wars with zero victories for the last 50 years and our economy/taxes are drained for the elitist few and crumbs to the rest of us.
Thanks for tying it all together. It sounded so ridiculous when Trump made his comments about Greenland and the 51st state. He doesn’t say stupid stuff, he just tells us where things are headed.
This is why I can’t quit reading here.
@Sundance
Typo in the header. “Every Important” should be “Very Important”.
Our Very Stable Genius is always “at work.”
Make friends with Russia, we don’t need NATO. EU will need to learn how to compete in the real world without always relying on the U.S. taxpayer to bail them out.
The EU’s GDP is approximately $17.18 trillion, compared to Russia’s $1.78 trillion, making the EU economy about 9.6 times larger.
Compared to the EU, as well as to the United States, Russia is an economic backwater.
Measuring Russia’s non-dollar economy in dollars is nonsense. Purchasing Power Parity gives a much clearer picture of Russia being firmly in the top 5.
Plus there are untapped natural resources available if we work w/them.
But Russia is stable. Russia is not a globalist country. It is a MRGA country. It is a huge country with tremendous mineral wealth.
The EU is dying.
Russia can hold a lot more people. They can be Americans and Russians or they can be Chinese. The choice right now is ours.
Some people, even in MAGA, drink the CIA poison media narratives about Russia too much. They see all of the lies from these same ghouls as pertains to Trump, lawfare, etc, but then believe them about Russia. Smh.
And Russia obviously pays for its own defense. What would the EU GDP be if they had to shoulder ALL of their defense costs, not just the measly % they’re asked to contribute, but always fall short?
I’d take Russia as a trading partner and ally over the limp EU in a red hot minute.
Russia has trillions more in natural resources in its soil than us or the EU. It is a backwater because NATO has isolated it.
“Europe” and “European” doesn’t mean what we used to think it meant. The continent of Europe, at least the western portion now is occupied and run by Arabs and Africans. Europeans today have brown skin, not white. They have been largely erased and replaced. Another D administration in the US will finish the job in America that’s already completed in Europe.
The treatment of whites in Europe will be exactly the same as their treatment in South Africa…when they are too few in number to mount a significant resistance.
I’ve read their plans. I take them at their word. I judge them by their deeds. No conspiracy theory. Conspiracy fact.
Unless we prevail. Highlander rules apply: There can only be one way.
Sound thinking, as it should be.
100% agree!
Yes, that’s great! Still, all economic metrics matter. Consider: 1) https://www.lisep.org/tru and 2) https://www.bls.gov/news.release/forbrn.toc.htm
Inflation is under control in America, but not everywhere.
“As of September 2025, Russia’s year-over-year inflation rate, calculated over the last 12 months ending in September 2025, was 7.99%. This places Russia at the top of the global inflation rankings for the year.”
And now, maybe up, up and away!
“New sanctions are expected to contribute to higher inflation in Russia, primarily through disruptions in trade, financial restrictions, and reduced access to foreign currency reserves. According to Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina, “it is unlikely anyone can predict the exact impact of new sanctions,” but their effects are already influencing inflationary pressures.”
Russian inflation is demand-side. Their economy is hot and unemployment is virtually zero.
The US has not had demand side inflation for a very long time.
True. Plus, most people equate consumer price increases with inflation. That is not so. The CPI reflects inflation, it doesn’t constitute inflation. A distinction, very much, with a difference.
Carney was speaking to the press after President Trump cut Canada off at the knees. Someone said he looked panicky.
I’ll bet he did…and in fact is.
In other news, Kevin looks especially happy today.
Awesome.
Is there a New World Order developing to counter the much ballyhooed evil one designed by global elitist psychopaths? All Empires die eventually. All men return to dust.
I hope this is what we are witnessing….the first indications of the birth of power realignments which have occurred throughout history.
I am feeling a small surge of hope that it is so.
I knew a gal whose hobby was researching Biblical plants. Her sample of the Biblical mustard seed looked like a poppy seed someone smashed to pieces with a hammer. And it’s an annual. Amazing.
We need to plant them, John. Everywhere we can and harvest those precious seeds to hold on to as tightly as we can 🙏🏻
Amen, sister!
Had a locket as a child with a mustard seed in it!
I remember those, Marilyn.
I wear a small enamel Cross which has a painted fish and a basket of loaves on it. It’s from my childhood and reminds me constantly that our loving Father is a Holy Waymaker and Worker of miracles.
Amen!
Betsy, of all of President Trump’s administration, Kevin is my favorite interview. The guy is tough as nails, but it’s impossible to attack him because he is just so stinkin’ pleasant. Always smiling and non antagonistic.
😂 😂 😂
And mine…
Easy going, unflappable, discreet, completely trustworthy, knows his stuff, a safe pair of hands amongst many which aren’t, on the same page as his boss and is all in on America.
I’m looking for a weak point, and I just can’t see one.
Fed Prez?
I’m thinking he just might be the strongest contender 👍🏻
Yes, he sure is a smiley face.
Trump is the Hecatoncheires (Mythological creatures with 100 arms) President. He has so many arms in so many pies that it is truly legendary.
“Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.”
George Washington – Letter to Governor Dinwiddie | Wednesday, May 29, 1754
Ingratitude is what those who have TDS all have in common!!! Ingratitude towards the greatest, hardest working President in my lifetime President Donald Trump!!! Godspeed President Trump our Peacemaker!!! JMO
Thank you Sundance!
🦅🇺🇸✝️
It’s pretty exciting if Trump can pull it off.
I certainly would not underestimate PDJT, note what he has already, and will continue to accomplish toward MAGA. He is one of a kind, IMO.
And some peeps here were in a “seasick” panic over the tariffs. LOL
I pray no DEI hires or illegal aliens are involved in building those ships!!!
Highly skilled craftsmen, precision welders, electricians, computer technicians, all sorts of engineers are required to build these new ships, not some skin color/sex orientation/religious DEI gimmie gimmie gimmie basement dwellers.
I can attest to that after my career in this industry.
Hahah. Just checked it on the Exchange (BOLL) – there’s no activity.
It was announced some time back that Bollinger was one of two companies to build the Finnish Arctic Security Cutters, so I assume that has been priced into the stock since then.
Austell Shipbuilding in Mobile, Ala has announced multi-billion dollar expansion for new contracts for shipping and space craft modules, adding 4000 more employees over the next 10 years, plus Airbus aircraft just broke ground for their last assembly plant for their A320 airliner, the most mass produced in the world today. Our economy is strong, you just have to look for it. Russia is the same, just because some economist state that it is in dire straits, why is it that the people there are almost 100% in favor of Putin leading them? Most in our mass media are bought and paid for to write what is dictated to them.
Sundance, Thank you for sharing this tweet. Moreover, thank you, Sir, for all the hard work you do towards educating those of us here at CTH. You’re truly a Gem!
So when Canada goes belly up economically, I wonder if the people of Canada vote to become part of China or if they choose Canada as the 51st State?
Alberta would make a great 51st state.
3 western provinces are doing what they can to become a part of our great nation, if not more.
Canadians don’t have a vote any longer. It is “Liberals” all the way. Canada is well on its way to be a failed Narco State or vassal of the CCP.
By the way Putin’s special envoy arrived in DC today and will be in Florida this weekend.
I wonder who he is visiting with?
Probably not Mickey Mouse.
Depends on which Mickey. If it’s the one Sundance occasionally uses……perhaps.
Love it. PDJT announces to the world the meeting’s off – but the back door remains open.
Mar-a-Lago is such the perfect place.
Unbelievable !!!
… and …
Magnificent !!!
Keeps the wretched, diabolical, warmongering, ridiculously named “Coalition of the Willing[ly Suicidal]” off balance.
As my beloved mother in law was fond of saying…
“You don’t have to tell everything you know.” 😎
I really like that saying a whole lot! Words of wisdom.
😉
I plan to practice that on Sunday’s lunch with my girlfriend. Her pain does most of the talking lately. It is so sad.
I would love to see a major trade with Russia it would benefit both sides immensely. If what you have been doing isn’t working anymore it’s time to do something different.
Yep and without all the climate change, DEI, and other nonsense.
Single American states, like California and Texas, have a larger GDP than Russia. Economically, Russia is a midge.
What do we need from Russia? Energy? We’ve got plenty of our own.
WOMEN. Real women. Conservative, family focused women. Not the blue haired, pierced-septum, liberal sleaze-bag, screeching, TDS raving “females” currently residing in our Republic.
Just my perspective.
…steps off soapbox…
I was able to woo a real woman, and married her over 33 years ago. But I can surely understand where you’re coming from. Good luck to you in future endeavors to land a real one! Believe it or not, there are still real women out there right here in the U.S.A.
Zzzz…
How ‘bout dis:
The EU is being taken over by a 7th- century death cult. It will take Herculean efforts to stop them. If it’s not already too late.
Russia today is not the Soviet Union.
Plus, it has been America’s habit in the past to buy other country’s petroleum products.
Don’t let your head explode when PDJT signs a trade deal with Russia.
Read some of Sundance’s reports from when he was in RU not long ago.
What should we invest in? I missed silver because I did not know who to do it with (did not want physical).
If you are not getting physical, then, there is little reason to “invest” in silver. Most other stocks do better as investments. Silver is money not fiat currency.
Then why are the EU pussies so scared of what Putin/Russia can do to them? Please import more Islamists and Africans and watch what happens inside EU without Putin lifting a hand. The people are getting restless as to what the EU leaders are doing to them.
Yep. Build a bridge and a tunnel.
yes, think of the jobs THAT would create!
appreciate this article answering the very question i posed yesterday –
the icebreakers bring one of PT’s long range strategic plans into very clear focus.
now all i have to do is wonder ELSE he might be working on….😁
It’s interesting that despite beta Trudeau “welcoming” all those illegals, Canada has recently tightened immigration restrictions. Notably, illegals who want to argue their asylum or deportation orders in court must pay for their own attorneys. Imagine if that were the case in the USA. Canada, globalist shill that she is, at least doesn’t waste resources on dreck such as “Maryland Man”:
https://www.canadaupdates.com/blog/penalty-for-illegal-immigrants-in-canada/
So Canada is tightening their side of the border, but our side is still open. Southern crossings are way down, but northern crossings not to the same degree. Of note:
“The northern border is the largest land border in the world, spanning more than 5,500 miles of wilderness and largely unguarded territory outside of official border-crossing points.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/13/us-news/illegal-crossings-at-us-canada-border-drop-but-enforcement-shrinks-opportunity-for-terrorists/
While we pivot away from Chinese crap assembled in Canada (big loss), let’s make sure to shore up our Northern border.
Instead of wasting resources on NATO, and foreign border squabbles, for a change.
Hope Trump doesn’t waste the good will he’s built up with Putin, vis a vis puppet Ukraine. Russia would be an EQUAL trading partner, and a mutually beneficial ally. Have we ever had that before?
how wacist of them canucks
Oh Canada has had a super inflated view of themselves for 30+ years.
At least we don’t have to see that fire-plug, Chrystia Freeland anymore…
She and other Ukrainians continue to make mischief in the background.
Freeland is over in Ukraine as we speak. Up to no good for the people of Ukraine, Canada, and the US.
Her motherland.
Wow. Carney made her a special envoy to Ukraine. Probably to arrange the skim for her and him.
we should not be surprised when she pops up in some big new leadership position. these scumbags tend to fail upward.
Built the “Friendship Bridge”!
I don’t have a source for this, but back around 1991-1992, Russia wanted to join NATO and integrate with the west. We told them no. I remember a journalist asking one of our generals if he supported that, and he replied to the effect of if we allowed that, we wouldn’t have any enemies and that was bad. Since then I have felt that our relationship with Russia has been theater in order to justify military spending.
I think President Trump would like to reset our relationship back to that moment when we took the wrong path, and take the other fork in the road.
That was Gorbachev asking Shrub the First.
At the end of the decade Yeltsin asked Clinton. Same answer.
NATO is an integral part of the World Order, and without the Soviet Union or Russia as its enemy, it doesn’t need to exist. Power structures and financial arrangements would be completely upended.
They all like the status quo.
Shrub the First…
One time head of the CIA 😎
Maybe the Russia to Alaska tunnel is more than a pipe-dream
Huh, I totally did not make that connection on my own. But now that you point it out, it really makes perfect sense. Replace Canadian product with Russian product and facilitate the new venture with specialized ships.
And, even though it hasn’t been that seriously discussed in the mainstream…maybe we do actually consider building that tunnel under the Bering strait?
Very interesting post.
I will be voting for Trump in 2028.
The problem with strategic rare earth minerals is that China has locked up nearly all of the world’s post-extraction refining and processing capacity. Because here in the US we won’t accept the environmental and worker safety risks which go with post extraction refining and processing, Mexico is logical place to locate the new smelters and the new mineral processing facilities needed to replace those now located in China.
I’d rather the U.S. invested in a joint venture of rare earths refining in Russia.
It would serve to undermine Chinese domination of that market and serve the mutual interests of both to achieve distance from Chinese supply chains of such crucial materials necessary for advanced technologies.
In regards to Canada an old saying comes to mind…….. Everybody makes mistakes but they are certainly abusing that privilege.
As a historian I learned years ago that USA has been drawn into numerous wars that had little benefit to average American citizen. We have been brainwashed to believe we must defend Israel, we must go to Afghanistan, bomb Iran, etc., etc. Only elites in corporate boardrooms benefit from the forever wars. If you pay attention the War Pigs are getting easier to see in plain sight (Richard Blumenthal in CT, Linsey Graham in SC, Mark Levine, etc.). It is time to stop the nonsense and get back to basis of taking care of our families, friends and loved ones. These War Pigs see us all as cannon fodder and/ or collateral damage. Great Britain has been ruling us ever since our Civil War which they ginned up.
Economists are like meteorologists – no matter how often they get their predictions wrong they keep their jobs. Yet the US Federal Reserve expects us to believe they know better than the rest of us and should allow them to impose the interest rates they feel will be good for the country. Would Americans not be better off if the Federal Reserve were abolished?
When I was in Business school studying Finance it also housed the Economics school. There was a lot of consternation that Economics was allowed to be a part of the Business school. Too much of it is social science, soft science, psuedoscience, very subjective, non-replicable. And Business school is supposed to be teaching real science, mathematics and such, objective, replicable.
We made jokes about Economics in Finance class, belittled it. By my senior year the Business school dropped Economics as a degree field. They arranged for its transfer to the Liberal Arts college, under Social Sciences. B-School gave it the boot.
I’ve always remembered that. For good reason.
PDJT and Bessett are both in favor.
Holy Guacamole!
This could be really big.
It could neuter NATO and yank Russia away from China all at once.
China wants quite a bit of eastern Russia, it is not a natural ally of Russia.
It pays to understand that often what President Trump says to MSM does not reflect his actual policy. Hopefully he will open a favorable relationship with Russia….even at the expense of our relationship with the EU and NATO.
EU and NATO gives the USA nothing in return for what we do for them, in as much as they now have to buy all the weapons they need from us instead of USA supplying them, along w/troops to help protect NATO countries. I look for PDJT to begin pulling our troops/equipment and closing our military bases in EU and elsewhere during the years after midterms are over.
For some reason, every time I think of Canada, Ceelo Green pops into my head
That song keeps bouncing around from focusing on his ex and her next victim.
I suppose both deserve a rousing chorus.
Just like China, Canada and NATO.
The Europeans want a war with Russia, and then it will be “Daddy Daddy Daddy come save us” as they come running to the US to get them out of the mess they make, again. Canada is just a spoiled entitled neighbor who thinks she’s better than you. I raise the middle finger salute to the both of them.
I was pointed to this version by a deaf acquaintance of this song many moons ago, even tho this is an apparently repost 12 years ago, I been here for 15 & I knew about this before I left Indy.
I still use sign language I learned from this on special occasions.
Wow, so expressive! Thanks for sharing.
So Canada now becomes Mexico and Mexico becomes Canada.
I get it.
AI queries are hard pressed to state that an increase in icebreakers could increase trade with Russia putting aside political issues. I’ve read the explanations and AI lies.
AI is pure Garbage In Garbage Out.
AI keeps including its own errors in its operations, thus rapidly increasing the data corruption in its feedback loop.
I don’t see how rerouting our supply chains through Russia is economically feasible.
Falling prices in certain imported goods don’t prove tariffs are harmless. Apparel, electronics, and furniture have been in long-term structural deflation for years due to offshoring and e-commerce pressure.
When does serious discussion about Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan leaving start?
btw with these icebreakers you are talking about these three provinces are no longer landlocked then by way of the Hudson Bay and then out to the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans .
Manitoba is the only province of the three that has a Hudson Bay coastline.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/24/trump-canada-doug-ford-reagan-trade-tariffs.html
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said his province will pause ads featuring former President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs so trade talks between Canada and the United States can resume.
The blowhard Pritchett of the North.
All of the geopolitical maneuvering involving the US, China, Russia reminds me of Orwell’s 1984. Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. Constant shifting alliances of 2 v. 1. It all just smacks of that.
We were always at war with Eurasia, we were always at peace with Eastasia…
The art of seduction.
I don’t believe or trust any inflation statistics no matter which side of the aisle the numbers come from. That said, as long as Hassett/BLS are using the same methodology to calculate their numbers as were used by previous administrations, the relative differences/trends have some value.
I LOVE that all these seemingly unrelated pieces are starting to fall into place. The Canucks are pooping their snowsuits and PDJT47 is showing the world what “America First” really means.
The continued sky high prices of grocery’s needs to be dealt with in some way . Trump appears to not even be aware of it but consumers everywhere are very unhappy about it.
Grocery prices are completely absurd .
With gas prices dropping, I’m hoping to see some relief soon.
One reason Groceries are still sky high is because the $Dollar is devalued by our continued spend and Print. The food doesn’t cost more, Your $$Dollar is worth less….Therefor takes more $$ to obtain food. Think of the cumulative Inflation ($Dollar devaluation) during the Biden years. That’s not going away. It is baked into all future prices.
The nugget is black gold. Only a small portion of the North Slope has been available for drilling, the rest set aside. Maybe that will change.
It will be interesting to see how SCOTUS threads the needle on Tariffs. It is now obvious that everything about the Tariffs is good for the USA. Inflation is low, international leverage is there and money is coming in at unseen levels. That Tariff money can NOT be given up. No one wants to give up Tariff revenue and at this point it would sink the USA to do so. I don’t think the Presidential Tariffs quite pass muster legally but that wasn’t an issue with Obamacare. It is really going to burn some of the justices to have to rule that the Tariffs are legal. I see no other recourse for SCOTUS.
IMO, Russia/USA will partner to provide small modular reactors (SMR), and will provide the fuel, and will remove the waste – a whole new industry. SMR can provide both electricity and high-temperature process heat for energy-intensive industries such as desalination, oil and gas extraction, petrochemical processing, etc.
In regions with smaller electrical grids, like sub-Saharan Africa and the polar north, SMRs are the only nuclear technology compatible with existing power grids, as they can be integrated without overloading the system.
SMRs are also suitable for remote and off-grid locations, such as remote mining operations, isolated communities, and military installations.
Because of leftist-imagined climate change, and their imaginary melting polar ice, Trump will also insist on buying Greenland at a ‘damaged goods’ rate. If it’s melting, who would want it, right?
Combine new US icebreakers with SMR in the polar north, and the Trump/Putin partnership will transform the world…. except for the EU. The EU can go suck.
Sounds feasible and maybe these SMR’s can reduce the load on our existing electrical grid that AI data centers will cause.
The biggest problem with tariffs is the American pubic seems to view them as bad and that’s not good for future elections imo. Even though the opposite is true the viewpoint on them is not good.
Maybe when they see more money in their pocket they’ll change their minds.
Maybe this puts it into perspective (source: Google AI)…
Canada’s nominal GDP is approximately $2.39 trillion as of 2025, ranking it as the ninth-largest economy in the world, while Russia’s nominal GDP is around $2.02 trillion as of 2023. Therefore, Canada’s nominal GDP is currently larger than Russia’s. Russia has the fourth-largest economy by GDP (PPP), which is a measurement that can differ from nominal GDP due to factors like exchange rates.
Russia seems to have the same (?) natural resources as our neighbor to the north. It doesn’t seem to be such a stretch, geographically and now perhaps politically, to envision Russia as our new neighbor to our north.
Trump is so right: Let’s go forward with Mexico and the rest of the world with the new and the next. The Prigs of Ottawa are a hopeless lot.
There’s no saving the Canadian West from the bougie prigs that comprise the Crown government. Why continue to be mere provincial subjects under the thumb of people like that?
Let see how they work that one out. Perhaps the Ottawa Royals by Proxy will swap the City of London for the Masters of Beijing? Or has it already happened?
How about some Canadian DOGE? It’s long past time for actual transparency.
I could read my bible and Putin would leave me alone.
I could preach the Bible and Putin would leave me alone.
I could preach against the sin of homosexuality and transvestitism and Putin would applaud.
Not so much in Canada. They would arrest me and call it hate speech.
Conclusion: I trust Putin far more than Canada, France, Australia, Germany and the UK.