Drew Wilson recommended Canada and Europe team up back in February. Trump’s latest threats show that’s what he fears.
Back in early February, when all of these threats started cropping up against my country, I wrote an open letter urging both my Prime Minister and Premier to form a pact with others like Europe to form a NATO-like alliance. In short, a tariff against one is a tariff against all and act accordingly. This with the reasoning that Canada alone can’t win a trade war with America directly, but the combined economic power of Canada and others would completely change the situation with America’s psychotic president.
As we more recently reported, Trump is pushing his 25% automobile tariffs which is due April 3. In response, Trump’s efforts have crashed the stock market. The tariffs, of course, go beyond Canada’s automobile industry and also impacts Europe. Naturally, like he always does, he didn’t think any of his actions through in any way. Trump had a massive freakout after realizing what one of our reactions would be to all of this: forming an alliance with Europe to hit back against the fascist president. So, in a panicked post, Trump apparently threatened more tariffs if others started breaking the rule of “no backsies”. From Reuters:
March 27 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that larger tariffs could be placed on the European Union and Canada if they both work together “to do economic harm to the USA.”
“If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had,” he said in a post on Truth Social.
On Wednesday, Trump unveiled a 25% tariff on imported vehicles, expanding a global trade war and prompting criticism and threats of retaliation from affected U.S. allies.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described the move as “bad for businesses, worse for consumers,” while Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney labeled the tariffs a “direct attack” on Canadian workers and said retaliatory measures were being considered.
If even Trump realizes how bad it would be for him if Europe and Canada teams up to take on the American dumbass, then it clearly must be an excellent idea. I don’t know how much more incentive Canada needs to start forming alliances as I had previously advised. After all, Canada really needs to get off the kick of trying to go it alone as an act of toughness when Canada needs to think strategically here. We know the economic reality of the situation and need to act on that economic reality.
At this point, Canada needs to form that NATO-like alliance. Canadian and European leaders need to find that spine of theirs and punch back. The last thing either need to do right now is roll over to the dementia patient president. This is especially true today when the stock markets, which has previously provided a deterrent to the presidents idiotic tariff moves, are seemingly no longer a deterrent for Trump committing economic suicide. As a result, those tariffs that has long promised as as good as in. It’s not a matter of “if”, but “when”.
The question Europe and Canada need to ask themselves is this: Do you stand up to the attacker or let him bully you into submission? You’re not going to simply sit on this because Trump is going to be hitting you no matter what, forcing you to submit your answer in either direction. We can only hope that the answer is that it is the former or we’re not going to have much of a country left by the Trump is done.
