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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by heresie-dabord on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:11AM (#49399404)
Trump and MAGA have destroyed the good relationships and trust that the US had built throughout the world. Canada's Prime Minister wrote [1]:

"We have recognised from the beginning that America has changed, and that we will not return to our old relationship. Our government understood, before many, that America is altering all its trade relationships. Putting tariffs on its closest allies and charging for access to its vast market."

[1] _ https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement...

Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by Ziomislaw on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:19AM (#49399480)
I would not call it good relationship, US just stopped pretending, that is all. They were always a global threat. I am happy US delusions finally forced everyone to stop pretending too, because the cost of it got too large. Splendid.
Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by estearum on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:28AM (#49399573)
Being a global threat but "pretending" so well to be a good faith actor that people treat you and engage with you as a good faith actor, is literally the same as just being a good faith actor.

The US was a good faith actor, especially relative to its power. Now it is not. It is not good for the world's most powerful military and economy to stop "pretending" to be a good faith actor, and it is not something you should find any joy in.

Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by notahacker on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:51AM (#49399738)
Above all the US was a predictable actor. Sure, its terms of trade were designed to favour US companies and maybe it wasn't fair that you had to be an exceptional diplomat to stay on amicable terms with them if you were at least notionally a radical socialist whilst the brutal dictatorship next door got a free pass on its excesses because it had defeated the radical socialists or was open to US investment and fully committed to keeping the oil flowing, but you knew what they wanted from you.

I mean, in a way Trump's tendency to back out of everything, good or bad and base his entire foreign policy relationship with your country based on who he last spoke to is predictable, but predictable in a way the only winning move with US relationships is not to play

I'll throw in China, which might want whats best for Chinese influence even more than it wants to sell you cheap consumer goods, but it's also very, very predictable in what it wants from any sort of international agreement with you and these days has an abundance of capital and the ability to sell you most things the US can sell you for less...

Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by speed_spread on Saturday August 22, 2026 @10:20AM (#49400019)
Ah yes, Disney's Frozen philosophy. "Let's stop pretending having to much power is a curse."
Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by dominotw on Saturday August 22, 2026 @06:07PM (#49404336)
sorry i am too out of the loop what is trumps beef with canada in the first place.
Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by _whiteCaps_ on Saturday August 22, 2026 @07:10PM (#49404757)
I honestly believe that it's because he saw people making fun of him in the picture where Melania is admiring Justin Trudeau:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/26/melania-trum...

Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by vkou on Sunday August 23, 2026 @03:27AM (#49406749)
It's the same beef ha Russia has with Ukraine. Despots are incensed when someone next to them gives an example of how to live well without them.