Canada
and Europe, to the U.S.: “How dare you do to us what we did to you long ago!
What gives you the right to do to us what we're doing to you now?!”
Canada
and several European nations (as well as other nations, such as China) have
long placed tariffs on American goods, and/or subsidized their businesses and
industries placing them at a distinct advantage over their American
counterparts.
Yet
they, almost without exception, go ballistic when the U.S. reciprocates. This
seems exceedingly odd, hypocritical-- and outright ungrateful-- as the United
States essentially rebuilt much of Europe after the World Wars in which tens of
thousands of American lives were lost fighting on behalf of European nations. And
since the U.S. has long provided Canada and the Western European nations their only
viable protection from Fascist and Communist countries for decades-- and paid
for that, too, so they didn’t have to, and could vastly expand their welfare
states on Uncle Sam’s dime. Had America not done this, Europeans may well all
be speaking German or Russian, take your pick, and Canada would be Soviet or
Chinese. (The Canadian government seems to be exhibiting a bizarre but clear
favoritism for Communist China at the moment, so maybe it wouldn’t have minded
being just another SSR.)
The
mainstream media (the enemy of the people) always reports on these tariffs with
headlines such as “Canada and China Retaliate
Against Trump’s Tariffs,” as if Trump just simply decided to economically
assault these nations willy-nilly, out-of-the-blue, for no reason whatsoever.
It’s bullshit.
These
are not opinions, but facts, hard as they may be for Canucks and Europeans to
hear. That several previous American administrations did not voice them in no
way diminishes their veracity.
The
fact that they are being voiced now should be a wakeup call for America’s
friends and potential adversaries alike.
America
is back. Choose your side carefully.
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