Response to Facebook posts by friends.
<>Military parades are an annual show of hawkish superpower spunk. No big deal. The big deal? China's military budget: $249 billion (#2 globally). U.S.? An uncontested $850 billion! Yet China is the U.S.’ #2 or $3 top trade partner; could be #1 again after an expected trade pact 2 by Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
Current top trade buddies Canada and Mexico? Mark Carney is being dramatic about stuff while Claudia Sheinbaum may shudder per President Trump's pursuit of drug cartels etcetera. (Narcopolitics is a superpower ogre out there. But Mexico's leadership must work with Don in obliterating the padrones to make sense of Washington's current plan.)
Meanwhile, the U.S., Canada and Mexico have been haggling and hawing over tariffs for years so “Trump tariffs” are not really their issue (refer to NAFTA).
<>President Trump has so far deported or arrested close to 150,000 illegal migrants. Take note the record number of border crossings by the undocumented from 2021 to 2024, after Joe Biden ended the Merida Initiative in 2021. Deportations are no-brainer.
Yet it was Barack Obama, in his first term, who deported the most number of migrants: 400,000+ average. That is the U.S. record of deportations (after Operation Wetback in 1954). But no Left-wing howl this loud in Obama years. 🏛🗽🏛
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