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https://www.canada.ca/en/privy-council/services/publications/canada-fentanyl-czar-interim-report-june-2025.html Looks like Canada has a serious fentanyl problem, killing many citizens. This - according to your own government. Oh well - just keep it in Canada. Thank goodness for secure borders!

I'm perfectly comfortable with Trump's border policies. Unlike you, I trust him.

Great attitude @cwericb -- I knew I liked you. Be fun to revisit this in a few months. Trump is dumb like a fox. The Ayotollah found that out the hard way.

Nope - @changegonnacome is totally right. Trump is very unpopular. Turns out - American's love open borders, horrendous crime, transgender idiots running drag shows for kids and men beating up their daughters in athletics. We even want DC given back to the drug dealers, car jackers and graffiti artists! Yup - I was totally wrong! I admit it!

Who is beating what to death??? LOL Tell me one more time how much you hate Trump while you are at it!

"You only have to look at the snide and sarcastic responses on this board to get a feel for the way the US right wing presently views our country" ^^^ You have a serious persecution complex. Unfortunately, President Trump is driving the USA in the right direction and his popularity is growing rapidly as the results come in. And as Trump rebuilds industry and jobs in the US, it will be very hard to replace his MAGA agenda - however distasteful you find it. You talk about snide and disrespectful remarks about Canada. The pot calls the kettle black once again.

NATO needed to be fixed very badly. NATO is in the process of being fixed due to Trump, unfortunately, in the process, weak leadership gets exposed. Sometimes tough talk is needed to restore the world order. You'll always hate Trump, that is very obvious - which is too bad. I find none of this amusing. You call it bullying, I call it forcing weak leaders to do their job and change. It's ugly, but needed. 100,000 Americans a year die from Fentanyl - we finally got someone with strength to deal with the narco-state of Mexico. We finally got someone to deport hundreds of thousands of criminals. The list of Trump accomplishments is getting very long. Hate on him all you want. Canada will always be protected by the United States. You call it being a bully - I call it America First. Restoring American sovereignty.

I love Canada too, always have. Been there countless times and the people are wonderful. Hopefully, your new leadership will be much better than the hapless pretty boy Trudeau, just as we needed to get rid of the corrupt Biden. It's unfortunate that Canada essentially takes a free ride on NATO, where the United States does not - hopefully Carney will really fix that. It's a terrible look for Canada, but facts are facts - and it's a critically important alliance.

Feel free to show more respect to the current POTUS. He is indeed OUR democratically elected leader - our chosen one. And don't be offended that Canada is on the border of the greatest military in the world. That will keep you safe. Respect goes 2 ways.

Nothing to worry about CW - the US will defend Canada even if you keep stiffing your NATO allies.

Why would you stop lying now, when you have no intention of making Canada's commitments until 2032? That's some ally.

Looks like you have little choice. They are both liars, just like the Canadians that promise to support their NATO allies, but never pay up.

You are clearly are avoiding the elephant in the room: Putin's Alaska speech where he is desperately seeking a reset with the United States. It could not be more clear. Try paying attention for once. Personally, I found Putin's speech shocking. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-of-what-putin-trump-said-in-alaska/

There you go again. It's very very obvious what he meant - repairing the relationship between the United States and Russia. It's so simple, all you had to do was listen to Putin's Alaska speech where he lamented the relationship going off the rails during the Obama/Biden years. He barely mentioned Ukraine in his speech - he talked about restoring a friendly relationship with the United States, only made possible under Trump. Try listening to speech.

You are not dealing in reality @John Hjorth Putin already has Crimea, Donbas, etc -- given that is the case, he's not handing over ANYTHING - now you have to take if from him by force. Time for you to get in the real world - because those territories are his now.

100% - but you can break him economically before you unleash the military - which Europe is not willing to do. Europe has had 3 years to unleash hell on Russia - and nothing but a war of words and insults has been the result.

Ronald Reagan broke the USSR with military spending - broke it wide open. It took years. It can certainly happen again. Donald Trump, along with the Israelis, just broke Iran. Don't think Putin didn't notice. We don't hate Russia - we just need them to behave. Europe needs them to behave - yet, they made them rich. Now that Europe has actually woken up - and may take NATO and Russian aggression seriously - you have a chance to re-establish a relationship of "trust yet verify". You combine the stick with the carrot - and you may actually get somewhere.

You're funny @John Hjorth For a continent (Europe) that has NO problem at all buying Russian Oil & Gas, proping up the Russian Economy for years on end - that's a big statement. The USA ws not the one keeping Russia rich - it was Europe. Don't lose sight of the goal: End the War In the process, you may actually have to re-establish some economic ties with the hated dictator Putin - which you had no problem with before. After all, we are not the ones that built the Nordstream Pipeline with a dictator.

You can't trust Putin, but you do have to deal with him. That is reality. I pray Trump never sends troops to Ukraine, but he may back a security guarantee which will upset his base.

Why is that crazy? It's looking like Russia actually wants to have a repaired relationship with the United States. After Obama, Hillary, Biden, Blinken and the rest of the geniuses cast Russia as the corruptor of US elections, Trump as a puppet to Putin, etc Is it so crazy that Russia might actually like to have a productive relationship with the United States? What could be better for the world than the US and Russia go down that path.

I can't wait for you to lay out your strategic vision for solving this conflict. Now you are starting to sound like the feckless European leaders. IF you think you will solve this conflict by not treating Putin like world leader he is and engaging in meaniful dialogue - you are sadly mistaken. The meeting on August 15th in Alaska was a MAJOR milestone in ending this war.

Exactly. You say things in public, and you say things in private. At all times, you keep the talks going, and do not alienate your counterparties (or embarrass them). But at all costs - you keep the talks going. Biden and Anthony Blinken were complete fools who refused to even talk to Putin. And Putin just shoved it right up their ass - and here you are today trying to clean up the mess.

Ukraine will never be allowed in NATO, since that's a large reason for this war. You can be sure Putin has seen the stick, as Trump has not been shy about threatening secondary sanctions, which would be awful for Russia, but awful for India and China as well - so that is a game of chicken that needs to be used as a last resort, since it is so drastic. And Putin knows that Trump may supply unlimited armaments to both Ukraine and Europe, although that involvement will tick off his MAGA base. The guarantor of peace needs to be the Europeans, not NATO, as there is no way Putin can go back to his oligarchs and say he is the reason for allowing Ukraine into NATO. He might as well commit suicide. To insure his face saving to the Russian people - he may actually get Zelensky to step down as well. We will see about that.

No - you're just being a ridiculous second guesser. You have no idea what is being negotiated behind the scenes or what the strategy is. Like other experts, all you care about is "optics" not "outcome". Trump is dumb like a fox, and actually may get this thing settled - but that will never be good enough for you.

Yeah, negotiating settlements to wars is really hilarious, especially when you have no control over the counterparties.