Wikipedia President Donald Trump triggers chaos among America’s closest allies by starting a full-blown trade war with Canada, Mexico, China, and the European Union. Trump uses Machiavellian and Nixon’s madman techniques to destabilise the world order. This will likely cause a recession by mid-2025 in North America and around the world. At the same time, the Trump administration favours the Putin regime while trying to coerce Ukraine to sign a peace deal with Russia. Trump wants to divide and rule nations within NATO. Moreover, President Trump tries to trigger economic and political crises around the world. Still, Trump’s actions could be part of a well-planned agenda to rally Americans to his personal agenda. Trump could manufacture a political and economic crisis to gain more power, restrict people’s freedom, and rally people to his own personal causes. All together, Trump gets along very well with Russia; since then, Trump has been trying to damage the national economies of NATO members and cut funding to Ukraine. Afterwards, Russian government officials told the media that Washington’s policies were allied with Russia’s. Privately, Trump and Putin might want to work together to get some territorial expansion. Trump wants to rule over Canada, Greenland, and Panama, while Putin wants to rule over Eastern Europe. Thus, Trump creates winning conditions to achieve his political agenda by hurting NATO members’ economies through tariff imposition. Trump cuts funding and intelligence to Ukraine to support Putin’s war. As well, Trump considers America is being exploited by its allies, and he wants America to no longer have trade deficits with its trade partners. In a time of global crises manufactured by Trump, the U.S. President expects to be perceived by Americans as a great leader putting America’s interests first. He wants to fix what are, in his view, some of the past mistakes, expanding the American territory, and isolating the U.S. from its closest allies to enhance his powers as a U.S. president.
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For the first time in Canadian modern history, the U.S. President has been threatening to annex Canada by economic force. President Trump dreams of Canada becoming the cherished 51st state. He told it several times to the media and to the Canadian Prime Minister. Professor Aaron Ettinger, a Carleton University political professor, argues that Canadians must take these threats very seriously. In sum, Trump specifies that he will annex Canada through economic force, but not by a military invasion. Trump’s plan is unclear, and we can expect that Trump intends to coerce Canada so hard through tariffs and economic turmoil that Canadians will beg to join the Union of the United States. Canadian and U.S. law would allow Canada to join the U.S., but it is very unlikely that Canadians voluntarily decide to give up their sovereignty to become the 51st state. Canada wants to find new trade partners to stop being economically vulnerable to the U.S. Besides, Ottawa intends to remove all interprovincial trade barriers, and it wants to encourage businesses to export to new markets. Moreover, this is unlikely that Canada will merge with the U.S. because the U.S. Congress is unlikely to support it. Besides, Trump will never get the consent of Canada to join the U.S.
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President Trump destabilised the North American economy by putting 25% tariffs on all Canadian and Mexican imports, except 10% on energy imports. Trump’s announcement of 25% tariffs, starting on February 4th, 2025, on America’s most loyal economic partners made the stock markets plunge when the news was heard. For instance, the Dow Jones Industrial Index dropped on Wall Street, and the Canadian dollar lost some value following the news. The U.S., Canada, and Mexico have a long history of trade, and the three economies are fully integrated together. U.S. President Reagan told Americans in a 1982 radio address that “free trade serves the cause of economic progress, and it serves the cause of world peace.” Thus, President Reagan strongly believed in the benefits of removing trade barriers between nations for the cause of world peace and economic development. Years after this statement, Reagan and Bush removed most of the trade barriers between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, which made one of the world's largest trade blocs, accounting for 30% of the global economy with a $31 billion normal GDP. Nowadays, President Trump wants to end this great friendly economic cooperation between the three North American nations. Trump intends to end Reagan and Bush’s legacy of an economic world made of free trade deals. The new president dreams of replacing the federal income tax with tariffs. In short, Trump sees tariffs as a modern way to raise government incomes without directly taxing the population. Nevertheless, Trump claims that the reason why he put tariffs on Canada is because of the fentanyl crisis, despite the fact that only 0.2% of fentanyl is smuggled into the U.S. Still, the true reason why Trump put tariffs on Canada is still unknown, and this is either to replace the federal income or to use economic force to annex Canada into the Union of the United States of America. In the short term, Trump will make Canada and Mexico pay tariffs to subsidise federal income tax cuts as promised during his election campaign. However, Canada has developed a robust economic response to the Trump trade war through similar tariffs.
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Www.wikipedia.org The United States and Canada have always had very good economic, defence, and cultural relations. They have fought two world wars together. Their heads of government have always worked together to improve the wellness of their respective citizens. Nowadays, the U.S.-Canada relations have never been so grim because Trump wants to greatly hurt the Canadian economy for no clear reason. As a result, the Trump administration seems to want to put an end to the traditional friendly relation between Canada and the U.S. Historically, Canada and the U.S. have had very close economic ties for more than 100 years. For instance, Canada and the U.S. trade close to $1 trillion in goods and services every year. President Trump thinks that Canada is unfair with American businesses because the Great North nation has a trade surplus with the U.S. For that reason, President Trump wants to put 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports in early February 2025. Consequently, these tariffs will have dire economic consequences on the Canadian economy. Moreover, Trump considers that putting tariffs on foreign imports is essential to fulfil his election promises made during his campaign because he needs to find new sources of income while decreasing income taxes. Trump might want to replace the federal income tax with tariffs. Moreover, Trump hopes to annex Canada through economic force by discouraging Canadians through an economic recession triggered by high tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports.
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The President of the United States of America has the power to pardon anyone for their federal crimes. Therefore, we can expect that the outgoing president will pardon several people right before the end of his term in office. Nowadays, presidential pardons are used as a political tool. For instance, President Biden pardoned his son for his federal crimes. In addition, President Biden intends to grant pre-emptive pardons to Trump’s political enemies. The list of people being granted pre-emptive pardons by the President could include former Representative Liz Cheney, a vocal anti-Trump critic, Senator Adam Schiff, the lead Trump impeachment manager, Dr Anthony Fauci, a COVID 19 advisor and Vice President Kamala Harris. Nevertheless, these blanket pardons for top critics of Trump could be seen as unfairly using presidential powers for political purposes.
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The 2024 presidential election was all about a return to normalcy in a post Covid Era; Americans wanted to forget about Covid, inflation, economic uncertainty, and vaccine mandates. President Donald Trump campaigned on the economy, immigration, and the war in Ukraine. Americans were fed up with pouring billions of dollars into the Ukrainian-Russian War without any end to the war in sight. Moreover, Americans were told that they needed to fight climate change at the expense of the U.S. fossil fuel industry. Americans reject this idea of investing everything they have in the green energy sector alone. They want to diversify their energy sector to enjoy more competitive prices. Trump promised to lower energy costs by increasing the oil supply in the economy. Moreover, Trump vowed to end the Ukrainian-Russian war within 24 hours through a negotiated deal. This promise might seem unachievable, but Americans no longer want to spend in the Ukrainian-Russian War. In 1980, Republican candidate Ronald Reagan told Americans: ¨ Are you better off today than you were four years ago?¨ On election day, Americans answered this question by electing Ronald Reagan and by ending the Carter era. Trump’s election is a historical repeat of the 1980 Presidential Election, when a majority of voters answered that question by voting for change in 2024; they rejected the inflationary era, the vaccine mandates, vokeism, the Russia-Ukraine War, big government, and they wanted a return to normalcy.
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Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has often threatened Western nations that he is willing to use the Russian nuclear arsenal in Ukraine. Putin clearly said that the Russian territory cannot be violated by NATO because the conflict could turn into nuclear warfare. Besides, several political science experts think that if Russia is going to lose the war, Putin could use nuclear tactical weapons on the battlefield to force Ukraine to surrender.
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President Donald J. Trump won the 2016 presidential election by building up a strong base of voters that has supported him for four years. He wanted to put America first because he felt that America’s interests were not at the forefront by the previous U.S. administrations. He inspired several Conservatives by pushing for more Conservative policies in America. He built up a very Conservative cabinet that pleased Republicans who wished to have greater deregulation, less taxes, and to put America first. The Trump presidency was the continuation of the Reagan Revolution, it was the time to make conservatism a core value of America. Nevertheless, Trump’s leadership was tested by his management of the 2020. President Trump’s legacy could lie in the success of his administration’s Operation Warp Speed Trump. As a result, the Trump administration’s vaccine development initiative could end the 2020 pandemic. Therefore, the President’s greatest contribution was the implementation of a government operation that could immunize the World against a dangerous pathogen. In sum, President Trump could be seen by historians as a very unconventional President, but also as the one who made a vaccine possible to stop the novel coronavirus.
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The Scottish National Party leads a majority government in Scotland supported by the Green Party under a confidence and supply agreement. Both parties want to reverse the U.K. decision to leave the European Union by promoting the separation of Scotland from the U.K. Still, 62% of the Scottish people wanted to remain in the European Union. In 2014, the SNP promised a ¨once in a generation¨ referendum which meant there could not be any other independence referendum before 40 years; however, the SNP broke this promise by planning a second referendum in October 2023. Consequently, the British government refused to allow a second referendum and the Scottish First Minister, Nicola Surgeon, asked the U.K. Supreme Court to overrule the refusal of holding a second referendum by the Truss government. The Truss government does not intend to break down the 300-year-old union between Scotland and the rest of the U.K. British Prime Minister Liz Truss would not push back the nation into a divisible over the national unity. The matter has been referred to the Supreme Court, the highest court can either allow or reject a second referendum and a decision is expected to be made in autumn 2022 or in early 2023. Nevertheless, most constitutional experts argue that Scotland cannot legally hold a referendum without the legislative approval of the Westminster Parliament; thus, any refusal from the Supreme Court to grant Scotland a referendum might only help the separatist flame to keep burning within the separatist movement. However, the British unionists should try to transform the U.K. into a federation which will give regions more powers while Westminster keeps powers relating to national and international matters. A federation could get some separatists back into the union movement which promotes national unity.
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Even though the purpose of NATO has always been to safeguard the Allies’ freedom and security by political and military means, Russia has always felt uneasy with this alliance. This is probably because Russia cannot fully exercise its influence over Europe. President Vladimir Putin took advantage of this common misbelief in Russia that NATO is a threat to Russia. Even if, everyone knows that NATO simply is a collective security agreement between European and North American nations. Putin used this fear of NATO to increase his power over the Russian Federation by waging an illegal war against the sovereign nation of Ukraine. Neither NATO members nor Ukraine has ever been a threat to the Putin regime. For instance, the Reagan administration maintained good relations with the Gorbachev administration and several European nations were good economic partners for Russian businesses. In the early years of the Putin Presidency, Putin wanted to repair his country’s relationship with Western powers by going as far as asking to join NATO in the early years of his presidency. Nevertheless, the pandemic affected the mind of Putin; for instance, in early 2022, the Putin administration declared an illegal war on Ukraine using the pretext that NATO broke a promise to never expand its membership to former Soviet republics. On the other hand, the Soviet Union and Russia asked twice to join NATO, but they got a negative answer from the organization; if NATO would have accepted the Soviet Union or Russian membership in the 1950s or early 2000s, the Russian-Ukrainian War might never have happened. These days, Putin seems to want a buffer zone between NATO and Russia. In contrast, NATO should try to find a way to peacefully end the Ukrainian War by finding a common ground between Ukraine, Russia, and Western powers. The Russian-Ukrainian War has cost the lives of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians. Sadly, no one knows when this unjustified armed conflict will end.
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