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2026-09-17 Great White North

Canada Proposed As First Associate Member of the EU - Political Theater and the Beginning of the End of the USMCA

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2026-09-17 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [298 views ] Top

1 Trump calls Canada's potential EU associate membership 'laughable,' warns Europe of 'very heavy tariffs'

Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-17 00:25|| 2026-09-17 00:25|| Front Page Top

https://t.co/pdiTLWwhv4
— Jacinthe-Eve Arel 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇫🇷 (@JacintheEveArel) September 16, 2026

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-09-17 01:51|| 2026-09-17 01:51|| Front Page Top

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Given EU's Open Borders problems will likely be adopted Canada. Plus joining the EU, will allow the EU to temporarily bypass certain trade restrictions. Trade issues the US has with the EU & CCP by using Canada as a backdoor.

That's gonna be one heck of US Border Wall to put up and enforce.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-09-17 06:51|| 2026-09-17 06:51|| Front Page Top

4 Canada applies to join UK-led military coalition

Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-17 07:58|| 2026-09-17 07:58|| Front Page Top

5 A fine example of Blair's Law - "the ongoing process by which the world's multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force."

Posted by SteveS 2026-09-17 08:57|| 2026-09-17 08:57|| Front Page Top

6 Canada has already adopted the EUs open border policy.

Posted by chris 2026-09-17 09:31|| 2026-09-17 09:31|| Front Page Top

7 Because EU political alignments have been such a historical success story.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-09-17 10:00|| 2026-09-17 10:00|| Front Page Top

8 Elbows Up For Sale.

Posted by swksvolFF 2026-09-17 10:29|| 2026-09-17 10:29|| Front Page Top

9 Time to dust off Oplan Red, annex Oplan Crimson.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-09-17 11:10|| 2026-09-17 11:10|| Front Page Top

Posted by NoMoreBS 2026-09-17 16:19|| 2026-09-17 16:19|| Front Page Top

11 ref 9 above - suddenly not quite a mere thought exercise for staff officers somewhere in the NORTHCOM Headquarters as they dust off the NOFORN stamp and add NOCAN as a new acronym?

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red

Posted by NoMoreBS 2026-09-17 16:29|| 2026-09-17 16:29|| Front Page Top

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