Ross O'Connor
@oconnor
Foreign and national security Advisor to 22nd Prime Minister of Canada. Director of Policy for two Foreign Ministers. NatSecurity, nuclear, energy, and climate.
Wrong. It's a war and your boss wants to chokehold Canada into submission on Trade issues because he thinks he can. He's been wrong about a lot of things and he's wrong about this.
Let him make his bluffs. He continues to bark at the moon and no one believes him.
When you treat your neighbor like a dirty diaper... they tend to react poorly. The Trump administration loves to gaslight Canadians into believing that they should embrace this poor behaviour as something that's good for them.
Trust me, If there was an important meeting at the White House, this guy would be the last to hear about it.
Foreign policy of GHW Bush: Frees Kuwait from military occupation. They are very grateful. Foreign policy of Trump: Starts a stupid war in the Gulf that chokes off Kuwait's only source of revenue. They are very angry.
Apart from holding the the world economy hostage, impose massive costs on the world energy systems, hold all the energy infrastructure in the Gulf at risk indefinitely, you're right, they have no cards.
America is back? It just got outplayed by a savvy opponent using rope a dope tactics against Trump's wild stupid haymakers. The America I know doesn't make these stupid decisions.
This was month ago. Mind you, he did not mention whose surrender was needed for a deal.
U.S. State Department: "We are issuing a WORLDWIDE ADVISORY because everyone hates us and wants to kill us and we have no idea why"
The war has weakened Iran but when it ends, Iran will continue to have the nuclear material and knowhow, and the regime will still be in place. Iran can still destroy critical energy infrastructure in the gulf and block the Hormuz strait. All Trump did is the mother of all lawn mowings.
Foreign investment inflow into Canada hits the highest level since 2007, per Bloomberg. Suck it Trump.