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Pentagon walks away from Canada-U.S. defence board

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The US seems to keep taking their ball and going home. There is a risk to this as there’s multiple sources of defense weaponry that could be used. The world economy can keep working to route around the us marketplace. Short term pain, long term gain.

This is what "America First" gets us.

"America First" should really be read as "America Last", because none of the idiots in this regime have the first clue how anything actually works beyond putting on a show (they're all TV people, and seem to be chosen for that aspect) while taking whatever they can of ours to stuff their own pockets.

Yeah, it's a an ongoing processes of being gobsmacked that things could be run like this, and more so, that a significant portion of our fellow citizens be totally ok with it.

US is shifting foreign policy to increasingly treat alliances as conditional and transactional.

Canada can no longer assume historical goodwill or that shared institutions will automatically anchor the relationship.

It's up to Canada to strengthen its own defense capacity.

We are in a post-, post-WW2 environment. Time to realize that. As well, fifth gen warfare (information warfare), gray zone warfare etc are now the name of the game across the world, not just US. Economic, military and diplomatic issues are inevitably intertwined. Forget about what you knew. Canada has to think more holistically about how its economic and security policies intersect

This is sanewashing an irrational and incompetent policy on the part of the US. New amount of "holistic thinking" can paper over what Trump has done.

Calling it irrational doesn’t change the reality of the strategic shift underway

Trump is like a button-mashing unskilled gamer. Calling his results a strategic shift is like calling jerks and spasms a shift in style of ballet.

Some of it will get washed away as soon as one or both houses of Congress shifts, and the rest should be seen as an opportunity to strengthen democracy and its institutions.

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