Well, howdy there, internet people it spell again. So today, we're going to talk about

Trump v. Canada, World Power Edition. An announcement by the Canadian foreign minister has led to a lot

of confusion in the United States, because people are starting to see the

very obvious effects that they once claimed were impossible. Trump has been attempting to

squeeze Cuba and has attempted to cut off oil to the island nation. This, of course, has pushed

up costs on pretty much everything, from transportation to food.

It created blackouts. It's disrupted medical infrastructure.

The Trump administration has made it pretty clear that the goal is regime change.

Experts tend to believe that an embargo alone wouldn't produce the necessary

catalyst. In the last couple of days, the outlet foreign policy ran an article simply titled,

Cuba isn't headed for collapse. The government there has had a lot of experience handling hardship,

and the widely accepted view is that Trump's move was doomed from the start. But now there's

a new wrinkle. The Canadian foreign ministers said, quote, we are preparing a plan to assist.

We are not prepared at this point to provide any further details of an announcement.

Cryptic.

Americans are, of course, confused.

Why isn't Canada backing the U.S. play?

The West often worked in unison when it came to foreign politics. Why isn't Canada backing the U.S. play?

The West often worked in unison when it came to foreign policy because of shared economic interests.

When Trump broke those shared interests, he created a situation where Canadian and European interests started to diverge from U.S. interests.

Canada has a lot of mining and tourism interests in Cuba,

interests that are currently being disrupted.

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