IDK what you imagine should be done instead of what the Canadian government is already doing?
Despite the aggressive tariffs on Canada by USA, and a lot of disruption caused by USA, the Canadian government has managed to create an environment that has allowed impressive growth for the economy considering the circumstances.
Absolutely, Canada has now even made defense agreements with EU joining the EU SAFE program, and very early on trade agreements were expanded.
They have been very active rerouting export goods hit by US tariffs away from USA to other destinations, helped by the government paving the way for these new trade routes.
I can see from other comments that some Canadians don’t think the government has done enough, but I doubt they are aware of the speed the Canadian government has acted with, these things are very difficult to do quickly.
Look for instance on the trade agreement between south America and EU, it has taken 25 years to make!!
Canada has already made several international trade agreements beneficial to Canada in less than a year.
The fact that they are also looking into buying fighter jets from Swedish SAAB a non US country is also a very big deal. Which I as an EU citizen really hope goes through, because it seems like such a good deal on cooperation on sharing technology and make better planes on both sides. With SAAB and Canada partnering, instead of Canada just becoming a customer.
The net result of it all is that despite US sanctions against Canada, the Canadian economy has grown more than the US economy in 2025!
EDIT PS:
Technically the US GDP growth is slightly higher than Canada, but that is driven by the AI bubble, the real economy of USA when not counting AI is slowing down, as can clearly be seen on lack of job creation that falls far behind the increase in population.
There is no way less than 100 pm can make sense.
In the future light may be a possibility, and light is merely a photon, and you can have photons basically follow the same paths in each direction simultaneously without colliding.
So without in any way being an expert, I would think that if light can somehow be controlled precisely enough, that would be a possibility to go way below what any atom can. Even if the paths need to be directed by atoms.
But AFAIK there is not a practical working model for that yet, although research on it has been going on for decades.
AFAIK the smallest usable atom is about 150 picometer carbon, and the smallest amount of atoms theoretically possible to make a transistor is 3, so there is (probably) no way to go below 450 picometer. There is probably also no way to actually achieve 450 picometer which is the same as 0.45 nanometer.
So the idea that they are currently going below 2nm is of course untrue, but IDK what the real measure is?
What they are doing at the leading chip manufacturing factories is amazing, so amazing it’s kind of insane. But it’s not actually 2nm.
Just for info, one silicon/silicium atom is 0.2 nm.
We use a Linux media computer for all our watching, the TV is used as nothing more than a simple monitor. So if our TV does that, jokes on them, because all the metrics they can get is when we turn it on and off and that we watch through HDMI at the TV max resolution. 🤣🤣🤣
I stopped watching traditional TV 25 years ago, 2nd best decision I ever made, after marrying my wife. 😀
I hope Iran will make a 2nd attempt at democracy, and that they will succeed this time.
Your focus is to narrow. What about all his accomplices, the other ICE agents that were there and didn’t immediately arrest him?
Maybe if we try more tax cuts for the rich?
There are so many problems in this article.
But the expansion - driven by steady consumer spending and a growth in exports
With a 4.3% increase in GDP and growing exports, the consumer spending should not be steady but increasing.
just 49,000 roles per month in 2025, down from an estimated gain of 168,000 a month the year before.
OK that sounds pretty bad for a job market of around 171 million workers. That’s only 1/3‰ And only 600,000 new jobs for the year with an estimated population growth of 1.6 million!
Employers added 50,000 jobs in the final month of 2025
Now this is REALLY bad!! December is normally the highest job creation month of the year due to the holidays.
December being only average, and only a third of the average the previous year, and job creation being only a third the population growth indicates an actually declining economy of workers per capita!
Despite this we know the GDP rose 4.3%, but that is very much inflated by AI which may be a bubble and has signs of trickling out, as major companies have difficulties monetizing AI.
But the unemployment rate dipped to 4.4%.
Unfortunately we also know that many people are currently leaving the job market as people give up on finding a job, so instead they try to create a better work/life balance:
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/08/economy/us-jobs-report-preview-december
I’ve mentioned this before, but I expect job numbers for January and February to be horrible. And the idea that the Trump is good, will probably be shown to be clearly false.
It is the case, they are just not generally saying it out loud.
Germany is participating in all EU programs to curb dependence on USA, and are as active as everybody else in EU.
There’s a lot of holding back regarding saying what they mean, because it’s better for this ugly divorce to happen gradually, and prevent it from getting uglier than it has to be, because EU is not ready to cut ties with USA yet.
But Europe is preparing to not having to take shit from USA anymore. And these preparations are made easier by Trump undermining USA’s economy and political influence globally.
AFAIK after WW2 the US economy was almost a third of the global economy, and now it is only about a fifth. The economic dominance of USA is declining, and with it, the political dominance will decline too, and with declining economy, their military will also decline.
We just have to stop propping the US economy up with continued investments in it. And by we I mean all other countries and especially democracies.
Sounds like both seriously lacked the necessary health care.
So “necessary” because living in a shit country.
And walk with that in your pocket or purse?
Yeah amazing idea.
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Yes, absolutely uncompromisingly ruthless.
I don’t think they will, I have also written many posts that reflect that, I use the same numbers to say two thirds either voted for Trump, or were OK with him winning.
If they weren’t OK with it they would have voted.
So I think a very large portion of the population is actually OK with all the shit that is going on, or they don’t care.
I also think the risk of American democracy ending with Trump is very high.
How high IDK, maybe 20-30% or maybe higher. Certainly not below 20% And that’s an insanely high number for a country that has had democracy since 1789, although it was a very limited democracy, and it is still a deeply flawed democracy.
But still many Americans have trusted the checks and balances, but Trump has shown several times that they don’t work.
And the American population hasn’t shown nearly enough will to do anything to prevent it. And now we are at a point that even if they do, they may be playing directly into Trumps hands.
it doesn’t help that Zionist propaganda is literally conflating the two.
Absolutely.
I’m really doubting the existence of independent unbiased sources that measure the actual effect.
I’m not sure the actual effect of what? Antisemitism? Because I think that polled pr4etty regularly.
This one is about Israel:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/03/most-people-across-24-surveyed-countries-have-negative-views-of-israel-and-netanyahu/
This is from UK:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-finds-that-one-in-five-british-people-now-holds-antisemitic-views/
I bet that UK piece is reasonably representative of EU too. And the study claims that antisemitism has doubled since 2021!!
That could absolutely be the smarter way to do it. But I think it would have to be rigged HARD, and that could be a problem, because that could make it to obvious.
Where a declaration of Martial Law could seem more plausible to the average American. Just create a lie big enough as they say.
you’re conflating their dubious federal powers of immigration enforcement
Not at all, I’m looking at the overall behavior of Trump, and hes disregard for the law. The kidnapping of Maduro was also illegal, both by international and American law. Even if USA doesn’t give a shit about international law, he was required to ask permission from congress.
You can’t let them do the same to the clearly written, fundamental legal structure of the country.
What?? But he is already doing that left and right!!! He already attempted a coup! Completely against the constitution. Something he should be in jail for, and undetectable for any public office for the rest of his life. Why are you arguing so hard against obvious evidence?
He has also used his presidential powers to go after people that were against him! And interfered in investigations where he has clear personal interests.
Trump breaks the law constantly, he is a pattern criminal. Why would you think that with the power to make USA a totalitarian nation he wouldn’t do so?
And who do you imagine will stop him, if he has the control of the entire federal system?
Clever, but I don’t see why it should be limited to North Atlantic countries.
If for instance Australia and South Korea want to join, that should be an option.