🇺🇸"Wow, I believe that it's the first time in decades that the US officially renounces hegemony and acknowledges multipolarity. There's no overstating just how massive a shift this is.

In fact, given that this time around we're facing "poles" that are categorically non-Western, it's probably the first time in centuries that the West officially acknowledges we're in a world which it doesn't lead anymore."

📎 Arnaud Bertrand

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China graduates five times more STEM students annually compared to the United States.

📝 Jack Posobiec: "So China invests in their own populace instead of importing foreign labor?"

https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1885701521699958899

🇺🇸 Secretary of State Marco Rubio:

‘It’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power, that was an anomaly, that was a product of the end of the Cold War. But eventually you’re going to return back to having a multipolar world…we face that now with China, and to some extent Russia.’

Marco Rubio may still be a foreign policy hawk, but this is the first admission ever from the top brass of a US administration that the US cannot and will not be the dominant unipolar power forever.

At the very least, accepting this new reality and understanding that other great powers will act in their own best interest and not bow and accept Washington’s orders can lead to a more peaceful and stable world.

📎 Afshin Rattansi

🇺🇸 Trump implemented a 25% tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada (10% on Canadian energy), and a 10% additional tariff on China.

@CIG_telegram

🇨🇦🇺🇸 Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, warns: "The Americans need our uranium."

📎 tablesalt

🇨🇦🇺🇸 Canada's PM Trudeau: [Tariffs] will raise costs - for you [Americas]. Including food, gas. They will impede your access to vital goods [...] They violate the free trade agreement."

📎 unusual_whales

🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸 Canada, Mexico strike back with retaliatory tariffs on American goods hours after Trump’s executive action

For its part, Canada plans to put a 25% tariff on $155 billion worth of US goods, including beer, wine and bourbon, fruits and fruit juices, vegetables, perfume, clothing and shoes.”

When asked about Trump’s threat to issue even harsher tariffs if Canada retaliates to the new US tariffs, Trudeau said that would not stop him from making his countermove and that all the leaders of the Canadian provinces agreed.

Earlier Saturday, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo ordered retaliatory tariffs on the US and blasted Trump’s suggestion that the Mexican government harbors alliances with criminal organizations and cartel members.

Sheinbaum said she had told her economy minister “to implement Plan B” which she said “includes tariff and non-tariff measures” though it was not clear what those measures were exactly.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/us-news/mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-canada-justin-trudeau-trump-tariff/

🇨🇦❌🇺🇸 | Loud booing of the United States national anthem at NHL game in Canada, after President Donald Trump announces tariffs on Canada

🇵🇦🇺🇸 Panama’s former President Ernesto Pérez Balladares fears America will invade Panama to take the canal.

“I think there will be many, many casualties on our side and international condemnation of the US.”

📎 AF Post

🇺🇸📚 The Department of Education just promoted homeschooling on their blog.

https://blog.ed.gov/2025/01/homeschooling-the-lifeline-we-didnt-know-we-needed/

🇺🇸🇸🇴The US Department of Defense has released footage taken by an MQ-9 Reaper drone of yesterday's strikes by F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets on ISIS terrorist group targets in Somalia.

The operation involved aircraft from the US Navy's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.

🇨🇦🇺🇸 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that Canada will respond to the 25% tariffs placed on Canadian goods by Trump, by issuing 25% retaliatory tariffs on $155 Billion in American goods entering Canada.

📎 OSINTdefender

🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇳 We Now Have:

1. US placing 25% tariffs on Canada

2. US placing 25% tariffs on Mexico

3. US placing 10% tariffs on China

4. Canada placing 25% tariffs on US

5. Mexico preparing retaliatory tariffs against the US

But here’s the real question:

How does China respond? They have been eerily quiet.

📎 The Kobeissi Letter

🇺🇸 Octavian Seeker on X:

"Cannot stress how important it would be for history of Trump actually expands the borders of America with force, it shatters what little illusions people had about how the world works at this point and ends permanently the "Post WW2 era" and we can finally move on."

📎 Octavian Seeker