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U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Trump will "probably" announce a tariff reduction deal with Canada and Mexico, tying it to their efforts to curb fentanyl trafficking.

However, Canada’s Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly denied any discussions, stating her office hadn’t been contacted about the plan.

Canada and Mexico imposed retaliatory tariffs after the U.S. enacted 25% levies.

Prime Minister Trudeau condemned Trump’s tariffs as "very dumb" and accused him of attempting to "collapse the Canadian economy" to enable annexation, vowing, "We will never be the 51st state.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope they don’t. Please see straight through this giant toddler and show him that actions have consequences. Do not negotiate.

Teach him a lesson that the US is refusing to teach him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

That's a mighty dangerous game. Two things will happen if this will happen:

  1. Your economy will collapse. Some crucial US goods and services are the only game in town.
  2. US will turn away from it's old western allies towards the autocratic countries of the world.
[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago

The US is clearly already turning away from allies, and running right into the arms of Russia

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

it's already doing that, in order to meet them in the middle we'd have to believe they were doing it in good faith which they aren't

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Seems a dumb move to surround yourself with enemies at your borders and turn to an ally who is across the ocean, over what exactly?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

a desire to inflict his psychosis on the world? chaos in a system offers the best opportunity to "win bigley" with the commensurate loss borne by the non-billionaire class.

crazy on a ship of fools.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Economy won't collapse. New customers, and sources can be found. US already turned into an autocratic countries under Trump.

so it is non issue.