I think the EU should consider sanctions on select oligarchs from the US.

I can suggest one such oligarch, Elon Musk

All of the billionaires who were mugging for the camera at the inauguration.

Ties that look a lot like puppet strings.

As Trudeau said at the top of his speech yesterday:

So today the United States launched a trade war against Canada, their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they’re talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator.

Make that make sense.

got to strategically tariff so it hurts US but with minimal impact on Canada.

Yup.

That’s why the initial list of counter-tariffs were specifically chosen to hit the overlap of red states and things we make ourself, or can easily get elsewhere, or can comfortably do without for an extended period of time.

If Trump escalates, so do we.

If we go “all in” on day one, we don’t have any future leverage.

Feel free to get on with that angry mobbing.

I think most people expected those sanctions to end eventually.

But they also expected that to happen after Russia withdrew from occupied territory in Ukraine and ceased hostilities at any of their borders.

Haven’t read

Neither has Trump.

His ghostwriter did his best with the limited information Trump gave him to work with.

Canada’s plan for the initial round of retaliatory tariffs targets things made in Trump voting states and where there is a similar product made in Canada, or that we can get easily elsewhere, or that we can comfortably do without.

Things like recreational vehicles, and alcohol were at the top of the list, because they tick all the boxes.

canadians should continue to buy canadian or the EU, a

We are. And the retailers are responding by giving non-US stuff more shelf space and not re-stocking with US product where there is an alternate available to them.

Including a large portion of the people In the US.

I hope they can figure out how to fix their country’s shit.

'We’ve lost a partner and a friend"

Canada has similar feelings.

But we still support our Ukranian friends, despite the crisis our downstairs neighbor is experiencing.

There’s more guns than people in this country.

We know, you Americans can’t stop talking about it.

But Americans also claim that all those guns are supposed to keep the government from getting corrupt and taking away their rights.

I don’t see the most corrupted government in your country’s history being scared to act because of all those armed citizens.

tell us what to do

It’s your bloody country.

I would hope you should understand it better than we do.

Or if things stay sane enough somehow, the midterm elections changing everything.

Assuming those mid-term elections are permitted to happen…

The government of the USA is horrifying

The lack of pushback is equally concerning.

If a foreign actor had directly attacked the Americans, they would be up in arms ready to “glass parking lot” whatever country had attacked them, but this attack from the inside (though partially pupprteered from abroad) is going almost entirely unchallenged (and barely noticed inside the country thanks to a mostly captured and complicit media).

Before you do that, annex the blue states and we’ll join you?

If you could interfere with the invasion force before they get to the border, that would be great.

It would certainly help with your application for admission to Canada.

A real place celebrated in story and song

how to survive the winter.

The Americans have bases in North Dakota and Alaska. They’ve trained for cold conditions.

Don’t smugly believe that we just have to wait for the weather to stop them.

Much more likely to be one big non-voting territory like Puerto Rico.