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America First? More like America Alone.

Canada/US trade relations:

Canadian Prime Minister Carney on Tuesday steered clear of criticizing Trump personally, acutely aware that the two countries share a tightly integrated economy, with more than $725 billion in trade between them.

But as the standoff drags on, trade is shifting away from the U.S. The Trump administration’s tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, cars and other products — as well as Canada’s retaliatory levies — led to a decrease in U.S.-Canada trade in March. Canadian exports to the U.S. dipped 6.6 percent, while imports fell 2.9 percent.

Meanwhile, its exports to other countries surged 24.8 percent, canceling out the deficit with the U.S.

Looks like Canada has found other partners to export their goods to.
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Carla · 61-69, F
What shape are other authoritarian controlled, nationalist countries in? How do their citizens fare?
We are being destroyed from the inside. Trump and his entire cult are just only a cancer. If it isn't excised soon, it will be too late. Feels like we've already lost a lung...
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@Carla
What shape are other authoritarian controlled, nationalist countries in?

North Korea is doing really well, Russia's economy has never been better and The People's Republic of China is a paradise of happiness. I know all this because their media tells me and anyone who says otherwise will be jailed or otherwise persecuted by the patriotic justice system.
Carla · 61-69, F
@FreddieUK i think Hungary is also blossoming. You know, coming out of that democracy darkness.
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@Carla I've just been listening to an item about that 'Utopia' on a BBC programme discussing their media. It's such a shame that within a generation of loosing the shackles of the old Soviet Union they want to go back to shackle themselves to more authoritarianism.
Carla · 61-69, F
@FreddieUK mind control is a powerful thing.
Most people are forever seeking comfort. People are also lazy.
When promises are made to wanting people, it is way easy to trust, regardless the implications.
And those leaders to whom they they place their trust, will profit as they suffer for their own good.
If memory serves, it generally requires violence to upset such leaders once it gets too far.
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@Carla Sad but true.
@Carla The past is not different from the present under trump. And no awareness ever changes the lies Americans believe.
Carla · 61-69, F
@Roundandroundwego some americans
@Carla the conservatives who run everything and both political parties don't include people who care, and the population works for its living and serves the ownership. The population has no need for a third party.