The incoming German chancellor, more convinced than ever that the defense and trade relationship with Washington is crumbling, has made plans to execute on his goal of “independence from the U.S.A.”

He’s not the only one.

The new Canadian prime minister said last week that “the old relationship we had with the United States” — the tightest of military and economic partnerships — is now “over.” Poland’s president is musing publicly about getting nuclear weapons. And the new leader of Greenland, host to American air bases since World War II, reacted to the uninvited visit of a high-level American delegation with indignation.

. . .

These are the results so far of President Trump’s threats to abandon NATO allies whose contributions he judges insufficient, his declaration that the European Union was designed “to screw” the United States and his efforts to expand the United States’ land mass. The main reaction is resistance all around. Now, into this maelstrom of threats, alienation and recriminations, President Trump is expected to announce his “Liberation Day” tariffs on Wednesday.

. . .

Mr. Trump is already showing signs of concern that his targets may team up against him.

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    EU, Canada, NZ, Japan, Australia should all move much closer. The UK made their choice to be by themsleves so I’d not bother with them.

    As an Australian I’d love for us to try to join the EU, even though lately theu seem to have moved more pants on head inasne with AfD and the other right wing parties in Austria, France, Sweden etc.

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    Who cares. Let him fuck it up and burn it all down. It’s all corrupt anyways, the faster he does that, the faster half these dumb ass hicks see that he wasn’t the answer and change their next vote, then dems take power, rewrite everything and put kill switches in to make sure this never happens again.

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      Who cares. Let him fuck it up and burn it all down. It’s all corrupt anyways, the faster he does that, the faster half these dumb ass hicks see that he wasn’t the answer and change their next vote just vote GOP anyway. Even if then dems take power, rewrite everything and put kill switches in to make sure this never they change nothing, go back to the status quo, then wonder why it happens again.

      Fixed that for you.

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      That’s giving a little too much credit to the Dems and not enough credit to a guy who genuinely doesn’t care if there’s consequences (so far, none), setting the bar.

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    Ok, we get it. He doesn’t play well with others and throws poop on the playground. Let’s just get him in a special needs program