I don't blame Canadians for being on edge over the Trump admin's treatment of their country and denial of their sovereignty. None of that will be helped by assuming the US, writ large, is an enemy combatant.

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I cannot emphasize this enough: You have to have the right solutions for the right problems. Military solutions don't work well for non-military problems (in democracies, anyway, they can work for shoring up autocracies). Its important to look at problems with as clear a head as possible.

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With national security and strategy, it means correctly identifying what threats you face and how they interact with your country. Mismatches are how we get Sicario brain thinking the solution to Cartels is airstrikes, rejection of diplomacy that's working, or escalation fears stopping action.

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unsettling door knobs I have seen in Italy:

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The Fortress Canada posters seem to want to make Newsom and Schiff the avatar of the Democratic Party whenever they say something stupid about tariffs.

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