🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸 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/

#BREAKING:

🇺🇸❌🇵🇦❗️| US Secretary of State Rubio presented an ultimatum to the President of Panama regarding the Panama canal:

"Absent immediate changes regarding Chinese influence, the US will take measures necessary to protect its rights under the Treaty"

#BREAKING

🇵🇦❌🇨🇳❗️ | Panamaian President Mulino announces the immediate break of relations between Panamaian* Government and China's Silk Road Project, saying it will not be renewed by his government!

🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇳 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.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

🇺🇸🧵 "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

🇸🇻🇺🇸 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

🇺🇸 Blackwater founder Erik Prince has suggested that Trump issue “letters of marque” to American PMCs so that they can attack targets outside the United States.

In an interview with Breitbart News, he said that these “privateers” could be used to combat drug cartels in Mexico and Latin America.

The last letter of marque in the United States was issued after Pearl Harbor in 1942 – to a blimp operator who began hunting Japanese submarines. Introducing something similar today by presidential action that would grant a private organization a “license to hunt.”

This would help stop the flow of drugs and human trafficking across the U.S. border.

The cartels make a lot of money, which allows them to buy very good equipment, highly qualified specialists, and modern weapons. They outgun Mexican law enforcement agencies.

📎 Lord Bebo

🇺🇸🇻🇪 300,000 Venezuelans Lose Protected Immigration Status: Trump Official Says Program Is 'Contrary To The National Interest'

The NYT, citing a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) order that has not yet been made public, indicates that Venezuelans who received TPS in 2023 will be unprotected within 60 days after the government publishes the document.

The current TPS, which allows more than 600,000 Venezuelans to work and reside legally in the United States, expires on September 10, 2025.

https://www.elnacional.com/mundo/the-new-york-times-trump-revocara-tps-para-300-000-venezolanos/

🇺🇸💸 "Can someone ask The Don to start taxing remittances at 99%"

📎 Taylor Day

🇺🇸🇲🇽 "The loss in 'remittances' to their home countries will be immense. $63 Billion to Mexico alone."

📎 Wayne Stebbe

🇺🇸🇵🇦 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on X:

"I met with Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino and Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha Vásquez to make clear that the United States cannot, and will not, allow the Chinese Communist Party to continue with its effective and growing control over the Panama Canal area. We also discussed efforts to end the hemisphere’s mass migration crisis and ensure fair competition for U.S. firms."

📎 SecRubio