With an eye on China’s expanding footprint, Trump aims to recalibrate US strategy across three crucial global choke points
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The Biden administration plans to impose more sanctions on Russia over its war on Ukraine, taking aim at its oil revenues with action against tankers carrying Russian crude, three sources with knowledge of the matter said.
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How long before Trump's USCG pushes Storis east towards Resolute?
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I don't take Trump's 51st State / Annexation rhetoric seriously. What I do take seriously is his emphasis on ensuring the primacy of the American economy and his willingness to take action, economic action, to ensure that America holds off challenges from China and its acolytes (Russia, Iran and North Korea).
To do that he has to stir up his "allies" because he doesn't have the budget to do everything he needs to do himself. He needs the OECD (NATO, EU, APEC) to become less dependent on the US and more able to look after themselves. The Aussies, Japanese and Koreans have got the message. The Europeans are getting the message. Canada's government has been deaf, dumb and blind to the message.
Canadians don't really believe that the US would let the outside world disrupt their peaceful idyll in the north. Consequently they see no need to waste money on bullets.
The only threat that Canadians really fear is the US. But that has been the realm of fantasists like Richard Rohmer..... Until Donald Trump,
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Trump doesn't want Canada or Greenland. He wants their resources. He wants their geo-strategic positions. He wants to deny both of them to China. And he doesn't want to pay for them.
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My take. Trump wants Canada's resources. He knows he will have to pay for them. He is already paying for them and Canada is making a profit at his expense. If he has to start buying Cobalt, Lithium and Uranium from Canada, along with the oil and gas then Canada is going to make more money from him. That means that he is going to have less money to defend North America and general and the US in particular. But it also means that Canada is going to have more money that it could be using to take the defense burden off of the US.
One area that Canada could assist is by associating with Greenland/Denmark and Iceland, reinvigorating those 1940-50 era defence pacts and, conceivably with JEF.
I don't think Trump minds been seen as a bully if it encourages people to do what he wants them to do.
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The Abraham Accords pushed the Sunnis and the Jews into an accommodation opposed to the Shias.
Perhaps some sort of Arctic Accord is the play for this term.
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PS Great advice for Canadians as well.
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