TOP US ALLY says BYE BYE over Trump insanity

One of our top allies is abandoning us even more than they already have over the last six months because they see Trump's insanity and they are saying this doesn't make any sense.Sadly, this is this is a this is truly sad.It's Canada.We have another one of these situations that maybe it sounds like diplomatic language if you don't pay very close attention.But when you listen to what's being said, it's a pretty big deal.One of America's top allies, Canada.

is now saying it's time to move away from the United States.Mark Carney, the prime minister, said something that should really get our attention.This should horrify us.He said that what used to be strengths, close ties to the United States have now become weaknesses.Take a look.

Foundations of the international order, the order which Canada helped to build and from which we have long benefited.That order is crumbling.And many of our former strengths, built on our close ties to the United States, have become our weaknesses.The U .S.has changed.

That's their right.And we are responding.That is our imperative.We are responding with speed and ambition, focusing on what we can control, which is to build our strength at home and diversify our partnerships abroad.Abroad, we've secured more than 20 economic and security partnerships across four continents in less than a year.We're reengaging with global giants like India, China and Brazil, and we're deepening our partnerships with our closest allies, including the European Union, the Nordic countries and Australia.

As a result, we're attracting the strongest investment in the G7 and we're on track to double our non U .S.

exports within a decade.Oh, now, if you just glance at the tone.because Mark Carney is very polite and I don't want to stare at the stereotype Canadians as polite, although they've always been very polite to me and I will be back in Canada within just a couple of weeks and they're going to be polite again.They always are.Um, this is pretty serious.It turns out that having an untrustworthy president as a partner tells you we've got to diversify.

And when he says we've doubled non U .S.imports, that means we are increasingly getting more and more stuff from someone else.This relationship with Canada has been a foundation of Western alliances for decades.And Mark Carney now says it's kind of a liability.This is the U .

S.has changed.Now, this is, of course, their right to change their forward going economic decisions.And he is also correct that the partnerships with the United States when Trump is president aren't super reliable.They're not super consistent.They're not.

They're like an on again, off again, girlfriend where you never know.Is she interested today or isn't she?Is she going to be nice today or is she going to be mean?I don't know.Maybe it's not a good analogy.But the point is that the United States has changed.

And so he says, well, let's do more with the European Union.Let's do more with the Nordic countries.Let's do more with Australia.Steadier negotiating partners, steady, steadier trade partners.And so this is a major recalibration of these sorts of alliances.And it's not a complicated reason.

I've said it before, as it applies to Iran and with other parts of the world.If you are a foreign government and you want to plan long term policy, long term trade, long term intelligence sharing, you need predictable partners.You need to know if we get into an agreement, it's going to hold.It's not going to be 10 percent tariff today and 50 percenttomorrow.And then we're done next week and then we're back on in three months.

That doesn't make sense.You can't plan that way.Commitments have to mean something.Otherwise, the policy swings wildly every few months or years.And under Trump, there is zero predictability.The U .

S., from their perspective, is not a stable anchor.It is more like a wet noodle flapping in the wind.And so countries don't just go, well, we don't like that.They adapt.China has adapted.

When Trump put the tariffs on China, when we were liberated, liberated as liberators and our soybean exports to China went to zero, China said, all right, well, we still want soybeans.Let's figure out someone else to get them from Brazil and other countries.And they did.And so now Trump is begging them to restart one or 2 percent of the total soybean exports.They are bragging.The Trump administration is, hey, we got soybean exports from zero to something.

Yeah, but that something is 98 percent lower than it was before you screwed everything up.And so Canada and others are hedging.They're building alternative alliances.They're reducing their dependence on the United States.I don't like that.This is bad.

You know, if if you want to go, well, David, why do you care?I don't thinkwould also be horrified by any kind of change to the global order that hurts the average American business.America first was going to make the U .S.stronger.

It's making us weaker.And we were going to be more independent and more respected.Instead, we are less independent and we are less respected.Allies trust us less.They rely on us less.They start building systems where we aren't included.

So we may be more isolated, but we are not more independent.And it is embarrassing.There is a long term cost.It's not a comment or a speech that changes this.It's it's over a period of time.And the most tragic thing is, at some point, Trump's going to go and hopefully the next president is less whacked out, even if it's a Republican, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat.

Hopefully they're less wacky.But it's going to take years to solve these things if we start right when Trump leaves.And so, you know, an executive order is easier to undo these changes in the perceived reliability of the United States that relegate us to low status.You know, we we are not exactly status maxing here.If you understand what I'm saying, we are increasingly low status in the global order.And it is because we are not reliable.

I wish it weren't this way.But I understand why other countries see us that way under Donald Trump.