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Trump says Starmer and Macron ‘haven’t done anything’ to end Ukraine war

US President Donald Trump has said French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer “haven’t done anything” to end the war in Ukraine, ahead of their visits to the White House next week.

Trump also said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky had “no cards” in peace negotiations, adding: “I don’t think he’s very important to be in meetings.”

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the UK, France and other allies have been supplying Kyiv with weapons and other aid.

Donald Trump is following through on long-promised policies – our leaders are still unprepared

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. It’s one of the oldest pieces of homespun wisdom in the book, but rarely is it practised. History is littered with examples of failure to prepare. Instead, we are much more likely simply to hope for the best. Sometimes it works out; often it doesn’t.

Nobody can say they weren’t warned. Donald Trump has never made any secret of his sympathies for Vladimir Putin. Settling the war in Ukraine was one of his promises while campaigning to be US president, and he has long warned fellow members of Nato that they need to stop sponging off America and take better care of their own defences.

And yet the spectacle of Trump actually doing what he said he was going to do has still taken European leaders entirely by surprise. They’ve been caught with their trousers down, woefully unprepared for the extreme security challenges that Trump’s actions pose. Having shamelessly milked the post-Cold War “peace dividend”, they find themselves naked before the storm.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

President Trump calls Justin Trudeau a ‘loser’ after Team Canada beats U.S. at 4 Nations final

Donald Trump is firing back at Justin Trudeau after the Prime Minister celebrated Team Canada’s win over the U.S. at the 4 Nations Face-Off final.

Following Canada’s victory Thursday night, Trudeau — who Trump has repeatedly referred to as the “Governor of Canada” — bragged over the squad’s 3-2 overtime triumph over the USA.

“You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trade war: What do Americans think of their former best friends in Canada?

I’ll be fine with a few less Tim Horton’s blighting the land.

STRATFORD, NEW JERSEY — The closest Canadian stronghold to Donald Trump’s Trade-War-A-Lago is a bright, spacious fortress with plenty of free parking in the suburbs of Philadelphia, 230 kilometres northeast of the Oval Office. It is a command centre and commissariat where the True North is revered, the current American president is reviled, annexation will be strenuously resisted, and a Maple Dip costs US$1.81, tax included.

A bit ironic that the article features Tim Horton’s a foreign owned and long faded national icon known more for its substandard 3rd World service than as a symbol of “Canadiana”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

70% of Canadians support retaliatory tariffs on United States: Poll

OTTAWA — Seventy per cent of Canadians are in favour of dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs on the United States, a new poll suggests.

Nearly half of respondents to the Leger poll — 45 per cent — said they were strongly in favour of such tariffs, while 25 per cent said they were somewhat in favour.

U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to impose steep tariffs on imports from Canada and other countries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

No assurance Canada can escape Trump tariffs, despite new border measures, minister says

Public Safety Minister David McGuinty says he has been given no assurances yet that Canada can avoid tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump, despite the federal government’s latest measures to address border security and drug trafficking.

“I haven’t heard that personally, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop. We’re going to continue implementing,” McGuinty said in an interview with CTV’s Power Play on Thursday.

Earlier this month, Canada got reprieve for at least 30 days from Trump’s threat to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian imports — except energy products, which would be subject to a 10 per cent tariff — after making new commitments to secure the shared border. Those tariffs could come into effect as soon as March 4.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Stellantis halts activity at Brampton Assembly in Ontario

In a move likely to induce whiplash for some Canadians in the automotive sector in Southern Ontario, it is being reported that Stellantis is stopping all activity at the Brampton Assembly Plant, effective immediately. Talking heads at Automotive News say the parent company of brands like Ram and Jeep is taking a pause on plans for the facility, a space which was to have been used to produce the next-gen Jeep Compass.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Muslim arrested in Quebec in connection with alleged NYC terror plot against Jews waives right to fight extradition to U.S.

The federal government is increasing the number of refugees it plans to resettle as a result of Sudan’s civil war, with changes that could see 7,000 more people reach Canada through various programs.

But Ottawa says it remains impossible for Quebecers to sponsor relatives from Sudan to resettle in that province.

Instead, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Quebecers can now apply to resettle their relatives as long as they go to another province.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Justin Trudeau declares US ‘can’t take our country’ after Canada’s 4 Nations championship win

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a shot at the US on Thursday night after his country’s hockey team defeated the Americans in the highly anticipated 4 Nations championship game.

“You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game,” the outgoing prime minister declared in a terse statement posted to X after Team Canada beat their North American neighbors 3-2 in overtime.

Despite Trudeau’s public assertion in keeping Canada a sovereign state, he seems to be less confident behind closed doors.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Ottawa designates cartels and street gangs as terrorist groups, fulfilling promise to Trump

The federal government designated seven criminal organizations — including cartels and street gangs involved in trafficking fentanyl — as terrorists on Thursday, delivering on a promise made to U.S. President Donald Trump in hopes of staving off economically devastating tariffs.

Included on the list are the Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and Sinaloa cartels, considered two of Mexico’s largest and most powerful organized crime groups.

“These are ruthless, transnational criminal organizations,” said Public Safety Minister David McGuinty during a news conference on Parliament Hill.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Why Doesn’t San Francisco Want to Deport Drug Dealers?

Get out.

You don’t expect to hear that message in a city known for its “come one, come all” attitude, but San Francisco’s fentanyl crisis is so severe that residents are feeling none too hospitable. The targets of their ire: drug dealers, most of them illegal immigrants from Honduras, who supply toxic substances to the thousands of addicts flooding the city, ushering in danger and chaos.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", USA