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Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:
> by Eric Margolis
> 
> Canadians are among the world’s calmest, most polite, and gracious 
> people. They are also, in my experience, peaceful, honest and modest. 
> You never see them angry – except for now.
> 
> Donald Trump, with his absurd megalomaniac claims to Greenland, Canada, 
> Panama and now Gaza, has managed to do what no one else has done. He has 
> made the United States hated across Canada, even in usually pro-American 
> Alberta.

Lol
My friend just said he is not king donald the first
He is king donald the worst

> 
> Trump has looked at foreign affairs in the same way he viewed leasing 
> store locations, as a simple straightforward business function, like 
> renting property in New York City. Fury over his Mussolini-like claims 
> to Canadian land will eventually abate but the damage has been done.
> 
> What the newly reminted president fails to understand is that what holds 
> together the American empire is trade and access to the giant US market. 
> Japan and Germany were rebuilt after World War II thanks to America’s 
> wise, generous trade policies after the end of WWII.
> 
> I well recall when superb Japanese electronics and superior German cars 
> appeared in US and then European markets. Everyone benefitted by this 
> new trade. Postwar Japan and Germany were rebuilt thanks to their access 
> to America’s market. Complaints about trade imbalances and German or 
> Japanese surpluses were brushed aside as essential to building strong 
> allies that would become a bulwark against Soviet expansionism.
> 
> In fact, joining America’s ‘greater co-prosperity sphere’ was seen as a 
> huge benefit across war-battered Europe and Asia. Trade imbalances with 
> new allies were seen in Washington just as they were regarded by 
> Imperial Britain in the 19th Century, ‘a cost of empire.’ Access to the 
> vast American market is seen today as the glue that holds the empire 
> together.
> 
> Canadians would love to pay lower US taxes, and benefit from America’s 
> much better health system. Large numbers of Canadians are already 
> residents in sunny Florida. Miami even has a French-language newspaper 
> for Quebecois refugees from Canada’s fierce winter.
> 
> Canadians love Florida, but they love dear old Canada even more. Maybe 
> Trump the Master Builder would be willing to trade Florida to Canada for 
> oil-rich Alberta?
> 
> Seriously, most Americans don’t understand how fragile Canada is as a 
> nation. Canada’s territory is vast, even larger than the US, though much 
> of its lies in extreme cold. West Coast Canadians with strong links to 
> Asia don’t have much in common with French-speaking Quebeckers or 
> Maritime fisherfolk. One of the word’s largest boreal forests extends 
> from Canada’s east up to the beautiful Pacific northwest.
> 
> Canada has always been a collection of inward-looking regions. Its 40.1 
> million people often have little in common. East coasters resent the 
> west; the west looks down on Eastern Canada. In the leading province, 
> Ontario, the third most spoken languages are Hindi and Cantonese. 
> Strange religious sects dot the West.
> 
> Throughout its history, Canada has been overshadowed and sometimes 
> menaced by a much more powerful United States. Its easy-going, liberal 
> ways have outraged right-wing Republicans. One remembers former US 
> President Lyndon Johnson picking up a Canadian prime minister and 
> calling him rude names. Belgium often suffers the same bullying 
> treatment from France who rudely dismiss the Belgians as ‘les petits 
> Belges.’
> 
> Trump’s threats against Canada have outraged one of America’s most 
> important military and trade allies. And for what purpose? To make Trump 
> feel powerful and virile.
> 
> Remember when Chancellor Adolf Hitler proclaimed ‘anschluss’ (reunion) 
> with neighboring Austria? Many Austrians were delighted at the time, 
> unlike today’s not happy Canadians.
> 
> Copyright Eric S. Margolis 2025
> 
> This post is in: Canada, USA
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