Victor Davis Hanson: We're Witnessing
A Re-Examination Of The Entire North American
Paradigm Of 3 Once Close Nations

VDH is correct on all points, and President Trump should act quickly on all of them. I've wondered from the beginning why he didn't put a temporary stop to all "remittances" to Mexico as a first, easy, step. The fact that China is profiting hugely from Mexicans assembling their projects is especially disturbing. DJT should administer some immediate "whoop-***" to that situation.

Bad as Mexico is for fentanyl at the moment, Canada is now being scaled-up for an exponential increase in supplies. Canadian investigative reporter Sam Cook has the goods on how China *legally* imports the precursors into Vancouver (first lax law PDJT wants fixed), then there's an idiot premier in BC who looks the other way when new factories produce pills in large volumes (RCMP recently conducted a raid where they seized 95 million pills, but arrested *nobody*, so the narco "business operations" continues), then those pills are washing over all of Canada and through the porous border due to lax border security. Finally, Canada's money laundering laws are so lax that drug sale money can be easily deposited into Canadian banks. Canadians have fretted of late about a US invasion to annex Canada. I can tell them all categorically that they can relax about that. There's no way PDJT would be dumb enough to annex the entire country and add a state with a voting cohort comparable to California in size and worse for its nutty lefty voting habits. However, that doesn't eliminate the possibility of an incursion to do something about the narco operations in BC. If the provincial and federal government continue to do nothing, an incursion to torch those facilities may not be out of the question... after which we would withdraw so that Canadians can preserve the appearance of precious sovereignty... when the reality is that they're already the 23rd province of China.

VDH is also a California farmer. One of my first recollections of him was over 20 years ago when he was complaining about the crumbling of the Central Valley in the form of code-violating shantytowns full of illegal Mexicans that had sprung up everywhere.

#2 For those who don't know, there are 168,000 Chinese people living in Vancouver. A population that large can do serious damage to the U.S. Overall, 45% of the residents of Vancouver are Asian. How did this happen?

Brain freeze again on the Canadian investigative reporter in #2. It's Sam Cooper, not Sam Cook. #4: Obviously, a lot of Chinese in recent decades have been able to convert yuan to hard currency and found emigration to Canada to be most easy. Having a large Asian population isn't the problem and shouldn't be a surprise along the Pacific coast of North America -- 10% of Oregon is Asian and a lot of that is Vietnamese boat people who came here with nothing. Their loyalty to their adopted country is without question. The same can't be said for the Chinese in Vancouver. And the presence of "Chinese police stations" in Canada assures continued CCP oppression. The most revealing element of Cooper's work is the very cozy relationship among members of a company run by Chinese nationals -- which is suspected of being heavily involved in the narco business -- and The Liberal Party of Canada and Justin Trudeau in particular. The entire Liberal Party must be suspected as compromised by CCP money; if Canada reelects them in their next federal election, it will be the equivalent of Canada succumbing to a reverse Opium War.

You will not see rational explanations like this in the dishonest "mainstream media"... they want everyone to believe that PDJT is staring trade wars with our besties just because he is insane...and no good will ever come from it....................oh and I forgot...plus he's a racist!!

There's an old axiom, "If you have to buy your friends, they are not true friends." We have been buying Canada and Mexico for years, along with many others.

Canada is no longer the Canada that people visualize when they think of "Canada". It is very rapidly becoming "asianized". And its government has become authoritarian socialist if not quite yet communist. Their handling of the trucker protest, with its seizure of bank accounts, was like a mini-Tiananmen Square incident. China may very well have hit upon using it as a destination "repopulation center". It's eerily similar to the Russian repopulation of the Crimean area of Ukraine which gave Putin an ostensible reason to "invade in order to protect its Russian population there." Someday, China might make the same case for its Canadian population. So I'm no longer viewing Trump's comments about taking over Canada as a silly or joking matter. He just may be seeing a future necessity well before anyone else does, including the clueless Canadians who keep tolerating both their own soft invasion AND their increasingly fascist socialist government.

Canada and Mexico are supposed to be allies, but they certainly are acting like that. We don't need enemies on our borders. The USA will end up under siege just like Israel. Hopefully Trump can straighten them out. Trump definitely recognizes the problems with Canada and Mexico. That's why we hear so much rhetoric from him. He is getting their attention. Btw, the bigger threat is from Canada, not Mexico, but both are huge threats.

With I could edit my posts... Canada and Mexico are supposed to be allies, but they certainly *aren't* acting like that.

Those two countries aren't exactly our buddies when their tariffs are higher than ours. Now they are crying because Trump wants to level the playing field. We are broke and have to get serious about getting out of debt.

Once we were willing to carry Canada, and they did a LOT of military work on their own. At the end of WW2 Canada had the world's third largest navy, and they had their own whole landing beach sector at the Normandy landings. They fought very well in WW2. Today, they are sitting back and have nearly zero navy, nearly zero army and say "Let Uncle Sam do it" while letting Chinese fentanyle flow across the border unhindered along with illegals of every kind. Mexico has ALWAYS been an unmitigated third world disaster zone, and a smuggler's paradise.