The “oldest ally” line is doing a lot of work to hide a pretty basic double standard.
The US hit Canada with 25 to 35 percent tariffs, citing fentanyl as the reason, despite Canada accounting for a sliver of a percent of fentanyl seized at the border. That’s not how you treat an ally. That’s how you treat a target.
Canada responded with targeted, dollar-for-dollar countermeasures, then pulled most of them back by September 2025 in good faith while talks continued. That’s not some rogue act of aggression. That’s exactly what sovereign countries with leverage are supposed to do when a trading partner starts swinging tariffs at them for a manufactured pretext.
As for “only Canada and China retaliated,” that’s true, and it’s not the own the US thinks it is. Most other countries didn’t retaliate because they didn’t have the leverage to. The EU was fully prepared to hit back on over 100 billion in US exports and only backed off after cutting a deal that included 600 billion in US investment commitments. Japan, the UK, South Korea, they all negotiated from a position where retaliation wasn’t realistic. Canada and China retaliated because they could.
Being an ally was never supposed to mean you sit there and take unilateral tariffs with no response. NORAD partner. Largest bilateral trading relationship in the world. Integrated auto supply chains. None of that stopped the US from treating Canada like a national security threat under Section 232. You don’t get to invoke a decades old friendship as a shield while breaking the terms of that friendship yourself.
UCP: Get rid of books with all the bad stuff we don’t want kids to see.
Teachers: Have you read any books in school libraries that have this?
UCP: We don’t read books
Teachers: Okay, well what kind of bad stuff? 1/6
Totally.
Real man, who defends his country, doesn’t whither or flee like 100 percent Trump would. Will punch anyone in the face for his Nation.
Vs “I dip Zyn and go to masculin camp with my alpha bros and eat fruit snacks and wear a beard because alpha but Trump is my first love and i want to hold him and cuddle. So alpha”
Notable moment in the Oval Office where Trump says “Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine” and “they’re getting their money back” when Macron interrupted to say, “No, in fact, to be frank, we paid. We paid 60% of the total effort.”
Three years of resistance. Three years of gratitude. Three years of absolute heroism of Ukrainians. I am proud of Ukraine! I thank everyone who defends and supports it. Everyone who works for Ukraine. And may the memory of all those who gave their lives for our state and people be eternal. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
#SupportUkraine
In Kyiv this afternoon, I laid out Canada's pledge to help Ukraine secure lasting peace and defend its sovereignty:
→ 25 more LAV III infantry fighting vehicles.
→ Two Canadian-made armoured combat support vehicles — which Ukrainian forces will be trained on in Germany.
→ Four F-16 flight simulators.
→ The first instalment of Canada's loan to Ukraine that will draw from frozen Russian assets.
→ New energy security support in the wake of consistent, reckless attacks by Russia on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
→ Millions of additional rounds of ammunition, protective equipment, and first aid kits.
Russia’s actions are a direct attack against the rules-based international order.
The response from democracies must be clear: peace through strength.
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