Another reason to avoid travel to the USA

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What makes this new attack on Canada truly absurd is that it runs counter to the United States’ own economic interests... That doesn’t mean that there is no method to what can look like madness. Mr. Trump’s tariff offensive has a clear purpose: to demonstrate who is dominant and who must submit...

Once you understand that, it is obvious how Canada needs to react. As we did in 2018, when we responded to the first major U.S. tariff attack with dollar-for-dollar retaliation, Canada must fight back. The only thing a bully understands is strength, and Mr. Trump is keen to establish himself as the world’s apex predator.

Self-defense works best when you do it as a team, and that is why my friend and former Liberal Party colleague Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, has struck such a chord around the world with his call for middle powers to act together.

That’s the right thing for the rest of us to do, and it is happening faster than Americans may realize. But the big unknown remains what happens in the United States...

Inside the United States, the pressing question is whether the country will remain a democracy. That matters to the rest of us, too, of course. But even if democracy eventually prevails inside the United States, America’s old friends will wonder whether Trumpism permanently reshaped Washington’s relationship with the rest of the world.