🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸 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

🇲🇽🇲🇽❌🇺🇸🇺🇸 | Anti-deportations protesters, Mexican migrants & Mexican nationalists burn an American flag while waving foreign flags during a protest against the Trump deportations in Oxnard, California

🇺🇸🇲🇽 NEW: Large protest in National City, CA with hundreds of people waving Mexican flags turns violent as some start vandalizing property.

The protesters appear to love Mexico enough to wave the flags but not enough to live there considering they are 15 min from the border.

The protesters, who blocked traffic, were lashing out against Trump's deportation operation against illegal aliens.

Police were forced to break up the protest after deeming it "unlawful."

📎 Collin Rugg

🇺🇸🇲🇽 Idaho Falls, Idaho

American flags vs Mexican flags

📎 The Daily Sneed

🇺🇸🧵 "It's becoming clearer and clearer that we're looking at a seismic shift in the US's relationship with the world, between:

1) The US dismantling its foreign interference apparatuses (like USAID)

2) Marco Rubio stating that we're now in a multipolar world with "multi-great powers in different parts of the planet" (https://state.gov/secretary-marco-rubio-with-megyn-kelly-of-the-megyn-kelly-show/) and that "the postwar global order is not just obsolete; it is now a weapon being used against us" (https://foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/6df93f4b-a83c-89ac-0fac-9b586715afd8/011525_Rubio_Testimony.pdf)

3) The tariffs on supposed "allies" like Mexico, Canada or the EU"

https://fxtwitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1886082749779607997

🇺🇸🇲🇽 Elon Musk on X:

"Only US military forces can defeat the cartels"

📎 Elon Musk

🇺🇸U.S. Marines have arrived at Guantanamo Bay to support the Department of Defense and Homeland Security in expanding the Migrant Operations Center—advancing President Trump’s mission to protect Americans and secure our nation.

📎 The White House

🇸🇻🇺🇸 President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, on X:

"Most governments don’t want USAID funds flowing into their countries because they understand where much of that money actually ends up.

While marketed as support for development, democracy, and human rights, the majority of these funds are funneled into opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas, and destabilizing movements.

At best, maybe 10% of the money reaches real projects that help people in need (there are such cases), but the rest is used to fuel dissent, finance protests, and undermine administrations that refuse to align with the globalist agenda.

Cutting this so-called aid isn’t just beneficial for the United States; it’s also a big win for the rest of the world."

📝 Philip Pilkington: "Bukele is right: USAID money does not further American interests. It just breeds enormous resentment against the United States. The program has been hijacked by wacko liberal fanatics and ideologists pushing their decadent beliefs on others."

📎 https://x.com/philippilk/status/1886064399120531903

🇪🇺🇺🇸 Brussels vows ‘firm’ response to threatened Trump tariffs as EU braces for trade war

BRUSSELS — The European Union is warning U.S. President Donald Trump the bloc will retaliate if he imposes tariffs on EU goods.

The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, said it “regrets” Trump’s decision to impose blanket tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on Saturday. The U.S. president has vowed to take similar measures against the EU.

“Our trade and investment relationship with the U.S. is the biggest in the world. There is a lot at stake,” a Commission spokesperson said on Sunday. “Tariffs create unnecessary economic disruption and drive inflation. They are hurtful to all sides.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-vows-firm-response-potential-donald-trump-tariffs-eu-braces-trade-war/

🇺🇸 Vice President JD Vance:

"Mexico sends ton of fentanyl into our country. Canada has seen a massive increase in fentanyl trafficking across its border. There are three ways of stopping this. The first is ask nicely, which we’ve done. It’s gone nowhere.

Now we’re on to the consequences phase.

Spare me the sob story about how Canada is our “best friend.” I love Canada and have many Canadian friends. But is the government meeting their NATO target for military spending? Are they stopping the flow of drugs into our country?

I’m sick of being taken advantage of."

📎 JD Vance