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Trump's World War: Starting Now

By Phil Butler

Via Zero Hedge

I've written through enough upheaval to know when the ground has actually shifted beneath us. Today’s chaos isn't the usual turbulence we've learned to absorb—the predictable cycles of crisis and recovery, or the familiar rhythms of things getting worse before they get better. Something structural has given way. We all feel it, even if we can't quite name it, even if we're still performing the motions of normalcy while the framework quietly collapses around us. I didn't think I'd be writing this kind of story either. But here we are, staring at presidents and prime ministers who have created a gap that wasn't supposed to open.

So let's dispense with the throat-clearing and the false reassurances. What follows isn't speculation about whether things might get strange; they already are. The question now is what has actually happened and what it means that we're all standing here watching the most incorrect leadership ever force an unimaginable reality into being, unfolding in real time. And with everyone in the world unable to look away, unable to pretend we don't see it.

The Rebranding of War

Seen from lunar distance, Earth in March 2026 looks deceptively calm, a blue marble turning in silence. But the view is deceptive. Beneath the thin atmosphere, two successive American administrations have steered the planet toward a threshold where nuclear rhetoric, proxy wars, and eroded international norms are no longer fringe risks. Looking at the transition from Trump I to Biden, and then back to Trump, we see no clean break in policy. We find an escalation rapidly accelerating into something unstoppable. Biden’s administration normalized long-term proxy support in Ukraine, maintained maximum pressure on Iran, and expanded drone and special-operations footprints in the Middle East and Africa. Trump 2.0 inherited that scaffolding and added louder rhetoric, faster rebranding, and explicit rejection of restraint. To deny this confirms a real collective insanity.

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Canada Chooses Rolls-Royce Powered Swedish War Plane:

Our headline is what Google's Youtube just published.

But here's what Google's Gemini is saying:

As of March 2026, Canada has not committed to purchasing Saab Gripen fighter jets. While there is significant political debate and a renewed "dual fleet" proposal from Saab, Canada’s official commitment remains with the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.

Here is the current breakdown of where the situation stands:

1. The Official Status (The F-35 Deal) The Canadian government finalized an agreement in 2023 to purchase 88 F-35A stealth fighters to replace the aging CF-18 fleet.

Current Progress: Canada has already begun payments for the first 16 aircraft and recently started payments for long-lead components for an additional 14 jets.

Arrival: The first Canadian F-35s are expected to be delivered to a training base in Arizona later in 2026, with the first jets arriving on Canadian soil by 2028.

So who's lyin',Google's Youtube or Google's Gemini? Probably best not believe what either of them say, at least until it's been denied.

The Madness of Donald the God

Speaking of the White House correspondents, President Trump stated:

“[They] Now Admit That I am Truly One of the Greatest Presidents in the History of Our Country, the G.O.A.T.”

It's called megalomania.

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Congress Stomps Trump Tariffs on Canadian Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Dairy Other Agricultural Products, Autoparts, etc.

As we've observed before, the great majority of Americans are among the most reasonable, fair-minded people one could hope to have as meighbors. The Congress of the United States has just confirmed this by rejecting Trump's attempt to stifle imports from Canadaa by the imposition of tariffs on Canadian goods freely sought by American buyers.

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NEXT: Canada's Response to Trump's Looney Demand That Canada Pay America's Multi-Trillion Dollar Trade Deficit

Canada's Response to Trump's Looney Demand That Canada Pay America's Multi-Trillion Dollar Trade Deficit

Trump belongs in the nut house, not the White House. That, at least, is the charitable view.

As for his claim against Canada for $2.8 trillion, he's just bullshitting to stir up his dimwit base.

But if the US cannot pay its bills, then it's time for Canada to shut off the daily Southward flow of four million barrels of oil, plus four million cubic feet of natural gas, and the juice from Quebec Hydro that keeps the lights on in New York and the Mid-West.

Not that we want to hurt the American people, who individually, are among the most generous, decent, honoroble people one could wish to have as one's neighbors. But we do think they made a terrible mistake in electing Donald Trump President.

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Trump's One-Finger Salute to Canada

Trump refers to Mark Carney, Head of the Government of Canada, as Governor Carney, which is Trump's insolent way of saying that Canada should be America's 51st state, not withstanding that Canada is larger than all of the 48 contiguous US states on Canada's southern border, and has a greater population than the ten least populous American states. 

Still, the US has the troops, the planes the tanks and the artillery to take out the Canadian armed forces in a day. That day will likely be soon. 

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Trump to Canada

 Hey Gov. Carney Canuck: No deal with those devious Chinks. Your existence depends on American sufferance. Remember Venezuela? Wanna join Maduro in the Brooklyn Detention Center, aka an American Hell-hole?

Start trading with China and you'll be wanting cash not trash for all the stuff we get from you, potash, whatever the Hell that is, some oil which we don't actually need now we got Venezuela, plus electricity for which you have no possible altermative market.

So forget the cheap Chinese cars, electronics, oranges, whatever. Know your place, unless your in a hurry for a border adjustment. 

President of the America's A.-H. (American-Hero) Donald J. Drumpft.

Trump threatens 'Governor Carney' with 100% tariffs over China trade deal

Trump: American Caligula*

 Trump's Letter to Norwegian Prime Minister:

Hey, 

Gimme da Nobel Fuckin' Piss Prize or I'll kill ya all.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. 

Yours truly, 
Donald Trump

Emperor of the United States of America
Emperor of Venezuela
Emperor-to-be of Greenland, Canada, Norway, etc., etc.

PS
No Nobel Prize, so I'm taking Greenland now. Then it's that dope, wha's 'is name, Mark Trudeau. No more Canada, no more Canadian Prime Minister, LOL.

Meantime, we're having fun bombing the shit outa Iran.

*The reign of Gaius Caligula

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You Gov:

Most Americans remain opposed to seizing Greenland with military force

BBC:
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Americans should act now to check the Psychopath-in-Chief or they'll become the most hated people on Earth, hated more than  the French, more than the Chinese, more even than the Russians: just bullshitting humbugs, liars and thieves engaged in the geopolitical equivalent of child abuse.

Trump Wants Greenland

It's called megalomania -- a psychological condition marked by an obsessive, inflated sense of self-importance, power, and grandeur, often involving delusions that one is uniquely gifted or powerful, and linked to conditions like narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and schizophrenia, manifesting as a passion for grand schemes, wealth, and control, beyond reality.

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Meantime:

HOMECOMING: Former Canadian Minister Chrystia Freeland, Granddaughter of Ukrainian Nazi, To Become Zelensky’s Adviser Source

Carney Blows $2.5 Billion to Join the Piglets

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney proves even more inanely feckless than his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. Trudeau gave the Ukrainian warmonger Zelensky $1 billion in exchange for a bag of cocaine, Carney has just handed the coke-headed Ukrainian Kleptocrat Zelensky two and a half billion -- that's sixty dollars for every man woman and child in Canada.

Oh. but Zelensky is the brave Ukrainian leader fighting to regain territory stolen by Putin's evil Russia.

What territory, exactly?

Um, well for a start, the autonomous Republic of Crimea, obviously, with its 91% ethnic Russian population, which voted 95 percent in the 2014 referendum for integration into the Russian Federation, with an 83 percent voter turnout (89% in Sevastopoi, where 97% voted for integration with Russia, a statistic confirmed by an independent survey by the Pew Trust).

The validity of that referendum wassubsequently confirmed by the Pew Research Center of the United States (a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts), which, in 2014, conducted a comprehensive survey regarding the status of Crimea and Sevastopol following the March 2014 referendum. The key findings of that investigation were that: 91% of Crimeans (including those in Sevastopol) believed the referendum was free and fair, and 88% of Crimeans stated that the government in Kyiv should recognize the results of the vote. Then there's the Donbas, the industrialized region of Ukraine with its coal mines and steel industry, its Uranium deposits and its population of six million ethnic Russians. You know, the people that former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko wanted to nuke. The people of Donbas had already

Time to Boot the Piglets

Vladimir Putin calls European leaders ‘piglets’ seeking revenge

Speaking at a defence ministry meeting in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin called European leaders ‘piglets’ trying to take revenge on Russia, accusing them of joining forces with the previous US administration in the hope of profiting from Russia’s collapse.

The people of Europe aparently share Putin's contempt for their leaders:

UK’s Keir Starmer has an approval of 23% and falling; Germany’s Merz also flounders at 23% approval, and France’s Emmanuel Macron has unbelievable 11%.

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You May Not Like Trump, But ...

 If you don't like Trump -- and how could any Canadian like a US President who has openly called for the Annexation of their country -- you need to take note of what he does. Three recent actions are particularly important. 

First, he has instituted a tariff to discourage offshoring of US manufacturing to cheap labor locations such as China, India and Vietnam.  This not only serves the interest  of America's industrial workforce that would otherwise be reduced to unemployment and unrelieved poverty, but preserves the industrial base without which no great power can continue to exist. 

Second, he has called out South Africa for its genocidal policy of turning a blind eye to the murder of white South African farmers and theft of their land. 

Third, he has called for an end to the Ukraine war, with Russia to retain the Ukrainian territory it has already occupied plus the unoccupied portions of Donestsk and Luhansk oblasts to be transferred to Russia but to remain unmilitarized as a Ukraine/Russia buffer zone. This means the retention by Russia of Ukrainian territory occupied mainly by ethnic Russians who the Swastika-tatooed Kievites sought to kill or drive out of the country following the 2014 Maidan.

Can anyone seriously call this anything but a rational and desirable program to (a) make America, if not great again, at least a great manufacturing nation again, (b) combat racism in Africa, and (c) end the Ukraine conflict that has killed almost two million mostly young, Ukrainian and Russian men?

Who opposes these actions? Let's hear from them now on what basis they oppose Trump's program.