> is he completely oblivious that yes. our politicians are a special kind of stupid. its been the national passtime up here for the last four years to squeal "orange man bad" and now that trump is taking office they are freaking out. he doesnt know whether to shit or go blind.  and whats even worse, they played the whole thing terribly if they even intend to attempt any kind of retaliation. see my post on the element of suprise. but moreover, regardless of how they intend to respond, the best response might have been no response at all.  so how would that play out? well canadian politicians would say "well we thought we had a free trade agreement" "i geuss not", but we are nice canadians, so we arent goign to charge any tarriffs, we dont want to tax our own goods or cause inflation in canada, its too bad donald is a big meany. .... and then trump just looks like a goof for tarifing canada. it makes canada look like nice guys and trump look like an asshole. and ofcourse since he tarriffed canadas oil it will cause the price fo gas to rise in america, pushign inflation, soemthing trump doesnt want. so eventually he would have to lift the tarriffs anyway. but no. they are not that smart. they been huffing thier own farts so long they think its smells like roses. now they will posture and bloviate, and turn this one sided attack into a war, and donald will be able to say "see the canadians are fucking assholes , they are causing inflation". then its a trade war instead of orange man bad. fell right into his trap.  see the thing is, we cant win a trade war. and while it may be noble to fight a battle you cannot win, its never your best option, it should only be a last resort. now is not the time for the last ride of the rohirim, this is not helms deep, we are not theoden and we are not surrounded and outnumbered ten to one by the urak-hai.  now is the time to outsmart the americans, and for that, we need to buy time.
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