Another masterpiece! Thank you comrade, excellent material to meditate on, as always.

Now I have to research Glasnost and Perestroika. I do not have the fortitude to add Yeltsin (spit) or Gorbi (triple spit) to my reading list just yet.

Edit: I understand there was an insurrectionary effort against Yeltsin that was squashed, I wonder if there’s USSR parallels there with Trump’s increased measures and rhetoric against “organized crime”.

He’s trying to break Canada and Mexico before going after the rest of the world with tariffs while also locking down common investment in the American security complex.

If global powers united for tariffs on the US to prevent further crackdown then he just gets another failed Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot–Hawley_Tariff_Act)

You can read and infer his strategy from Stephen Marin’s paper on remaking the global trade system here:https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf

Canadian special forces have also been involved in the U.S.-led Flintlock training exercises in Africa for more than 10 years.

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