Small note. Europe did not drop the sanctions on Iran.
France decided the USA was surrendering too hard and kept the sanctions in place.
So Irans customers would have been limited to whoever it was before, largely China.
If Carney really wanted to turn the screws to the Yanks, just put in export tariffs tomorrow. On just oil.
The USA needs every drop of oil right now with them drawing from the SPR, if Canadian oil had a export tariff (paid by the importer, so one case where foriegners actually pay the tariff)...
France, while unstable, cannot be compared on a PM to PM basis. PMs in France are more or less government whips.
If France was on its 4th President since Meloni got elected that would noteworthy.
Instead the UK is on its 6th PM since Macron was elected
Watching meloni get most everything she wants while morphing into a completely establishment politician has been the greatest display of how the UK bottled it.
They needed a trade deal to replace that of the EU. They thought America would give them one, but Obama wasn't about to do that, and he didn't have time.
Trump is famously anti trade.
Biden was preoccupied with Covid.
And Trump 2 is even more famously anti trade.
The best they could do is...
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