Yup, this sums me up too. Something went wildly wrong for the Democrats here.
In any case- Americans made their choice and he won. Republicans took the senate as well; the house isn’t called yet. His cabinet will I’m sure, be interesting. A lot of people made some fairly desperate long bets on Trump and will see that loyalty rewarded, probably to the detriment of some functionings of government.
Once the facts are fixed, all you can do is work with them as they are. Canada’s going to face very challenging policy questions. We and the rest of our western allies are going to be dealing with a very, very different America- one we can put much less faith in, unfortunately. This will have implications for our national security and sovereignty that will take time to unfold.
Ukraine is utterly fucked. Biden has two months to take such bold executive action as he can, but in this respect, the winner of the election is Putin. We can expect an emboldened Russia. Poland and the Baltics have cause to fear in the mid term.
Taiwan also has to ask itself if the conventional guarantor of its security and sovereignty can be relied on anymore. There’s a case to be made for no, it cannot.
The single biggest real thing to watch for up here will be if Trump follows through on his promise of across the board trade tariffs.that could be economically bumpy for us. We will probably also have problems at the border with significant influxes of people leaving America hoping for asylum here.
Other people smarter and more awake than I will, before too long, have many other implications for us to consider.
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