Not to attribute strategy to madness, but I think this is the overall approach - to keep dangling the threat of tariffs over the heads of Canada and Mexico as long as he can to keep everyone on edge. But some wonky US economic data may be on our side. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/02/26/trump-pushes-25-per-cent-tariffs-on-canada-and-mexico-to-april-2/
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The objective is to isolate 🇺🇸. He does that by disregarding treaties, threatening tariffs. It's economic warfare vs 🇺🇸.
Bonus is stressing out 🇨🇦.
Undermining other relationships.
Dedollarization.
Neutralize army.
Split NATO
etc
Good luck with your tourism!
Every once in a while someone's going to remind him that Canada still exists and he's going to yell "wolf! wolf!", and maybe at some point he'll go through with tariffs.
This is seriously deranged.
Along with consumers as well
(Not necessarily tariffs, just something to make his threats of tariffs cost him some way.)