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Look, we needed this speech. Listen to Carney yesterday, listen to this, and take the sign down from our window.

It's *OVER*

Park the Starmer/HYUFD normalcy bias nonsense. You can't just go on assuming that the old world is the current world. It is not.

Cancel all US military procurement contracts. Invite US armed forces to go home. Cut off our supposed cooperation on intel and other matters. Better that we do it now under our own terms, or we face down what he chooses to do to us.

Sorry, I know I have banged this drum on and on. But fucking listen to him. And tell me this is fine.

The problem is that all of these are difficult decisions that require sacrifices and we are addicted to easy solutions.

There is no longer an easy solution.

There is. Wilful ignorance. It would be terrible for the long term but fine for now

Look, we needed this speech. Listen to Carney yesterday, listen to this, and take the sign down from our window.

It's *OVER*

Park the Starmer/HYUFD normalcy bias nonsense. You can't just go on assuming that the old world is the current world. It is not.

Cancel all US military procurement contracts. Invite US armed forces to go home. Cut off our supposed cooperation on intel and other matters. Better that we do it now under our own terms, or we face down what he chooses to do to us.

Sorry, I know I have banged this drum on and on. But fucking listen to him. And tell me this is fine.

Trump has just ruled out invasion of Greenland, he wants to buy it, that is a decision for Denmark and Greenland to see if he offers a high enough price they would expect.

Beyond that, Starmer has actually been sensible in getting lower tariffs on UK exports to the US than most other nations have had, even if Sir Keir mucked up on the Chagos Islands

1. Earlier in the speech Trump stated that he could take Greenland in minutes as he took Venezuela
2. If you think his word has merit then you're demented, especially when he contradicts himself repeatedly in the same spoeech
3. We're being threatened with more tariffs
4. Chagos? Are you Andrew Rosindell?

You do know that giving succour to America will be reduced onto the same level as going on Press TV and RT?

Thing is we now know he didn’t take Venezuela. He took Maduro and put his deputy in his place. More like US Cold War shenanigans in its Latam backyard.

Look, we needed this speech. Listen to Carney yesterday, listen to this, and take the sign down from our window.

It's *OVER*

Park the Starmer/HYUFD normalcy bias nonsense. You can't just go on assuming that the old world is the current world. It is not.

Cancel all US military procurement contracts. Invite US armed forces to go home. Cut off our supposed cooperation on intel and other matters. Better that we do it now under our own terms, or we face down what he chooses to do to us.

Sorry, I know I have banged this drum on and on. But fucking listen to him. And tell me this is fine.

So we have a choice of paths. We can either go the Carney route and work with other medium sized powers on things we have in common or we can continue our sycophancy in the hope of frankly embarrassing crumbs from Trump's table, those crumbs being removed capriciously if we are deemed to step out of line.

I mean, this isn't even a choice is it?

Carney is impressive, probably now overtaken Macron as the main leader of liberal, internationalist free traders in the western world, standing up to Putin and Trump.

I am not sure Canadian factory workers will be too happy with Carney's agreement to let lots more Chinese cars flood the Canadian market though, even with a promised reduction in Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola seed. Those workers would probably prefer the 30% tariffs Trump has imposed on Chinese imports.

Leader of the Canadian Opposition and Conservative Party of Canada Poilievre certainly isn't happy with the Liberal PM

https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/2012207932104925471?s=20
https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/2012236406433763620?s=20

My daughter in law is very happy with the opening of China for tourism to BC

My son's girlfriend (Canadian) says that Poilievre has his lowest ratings ever following the speech and that Canadians are genuinely excited to be taking on the US who have betrayed them.

As I have said before the real losers of the new deals with China will be the US whose trade with Canada is collapsing as they disengage from one of the closest economic arrangements between sovereign nations on the planet. The China agreement will cost thousands of Americans their car manufacturing jobs. Its the price of having elected Trump. Again.