Kokinda saying Canada and the US are at war? Well, Mark Carny just said it today when he pulled out of the trade negotiations with the US.
Carney's a clown — a sad not funny clown.
Comment: "Keystone XL pipeline deal is a bust AGAIN, due to Carney, dairy cartel in Quebec, and upcoming by-elections in the east. Alberta will have to go it alone with the Keystone XL pipeline."
More "big energy" remember what I was saying about that?
Trump said that the initial stages of this economic reset would be a bumpy ride. He warned the US populace. Even so, while we could debate, the last sentence is referencing a situation that a trade agreement would fix.
And Trump made it bumpy because ups and downs mean buy low - sell high for him and those tuned into the market manipulation.
But Carny seems not to want a trade agreement. He dragged his feet for 8 months while the US negotiated with Mexico for a year and a half and is now close to a deal. Instead Carny drags his feet, starts up negotiations and then today smashes it all to smithereens, saying Canada is 'at war' with the US. One of the sticking points? The US does not want Canadian censorship to apply to US entities.
It's a Trump-Carney circus.
You didn't address the issues brought - that Canada is smuggling product into the US in cahoots with China, and 'slave' labor. Several of your responses do not address the issues being brought but rather indulge in Whataboutism. No dialog is possible.
It's an issue on both sides of the border with different products and way bigger fish than us. Try to get out of this adversarial binary political paradigm. Americans and Canadians are essentially one big mix of North American cultures. We can get along just fine if we decide to — but we have to bring it back to a grass roots level where "we the people" appreciate that possibility — and reject all the division sown by the politicians.
Look up the definition of gaslighting - where is Kokinda engaging in gaslighting per the definition?
Her whole rant fits the definition because of the way it attempts to spin US/Canada relations in a divisive manner that suits her political viewpoint. But it's not just her — it's all the other pundits and sympathizers sewing division along with her.
AI Overview
U.S. political figures and media influencers have increasingly deployed gaslighting rhetoric—framing provocative economic and sovereignty threats as "jokes" or defensive necessities while blaming Canada for resisting—deepening cross-border friction. This posture relies on distortion and DARVO (Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender) dynamics to destabilize shared bilateral norms.
Major Themes of Divisive and Gaslighting Rhetoric
- The "51st State" and Annexation Framing: U.S. political figures and commentators frequently float rhetoric about absorbing Canada or using economic force to render its sovereignty obsolete, subsequently dismissing public Canadian outrage by claiming it was "just a joke" or negotiating style rather than an explicit threat to national existence.
- Delegitimizing Canadian Media Independence: Right-wing U.S. media and state department messaging have pushed narratives claiming that Canada's press corps lacks basic freedom and merely self-censors to conform to Ottawa’s funding models. This reverses reality by painting a robust, regulated democratic press as state-controlled propaganda.
- Weaponizing Border and Environmental Scapegoating: U.S. political commentary has frequently blamed Canada for U.S. domestic issues—such as framing Canadian wildfire smoke or border enforcement lapses as intentional economic or security burdens—justifying punitive tariff actions while gaslighting the public that the targeted neighbor "made us do it".
- Amplifying Regional Separatism: U.S.-centric digital and alternative media ecosystems have actively platformed and inflated narratives regarding Alberta separatism, treating fringe domestic dissolution ideas as mainstream geopolitical inevitabilities to encourage internal Canadian fracturing.
Who exactly would be the players in a kinetic WW3? Not the United States. Europe wants a war with Russia and is doing the best it can to trigger it via Ukraine - but the US is no longer playing ball. Europe cannot rely on the US military - so who is going to fight this WW3 you are positing?
The major military powers and those aligned with them.
It's a global economic reset. Painful at the beginning.
That's the propaganda. Or did you forget the "Great Reset", "Build Back Better" BS?
Trump's war with the "Invisible Enemy" was the same agenda, but with his "Make America Great Again" packaging.
The US is no longer sending funding all around the world. Countries have to recalibrate. BTW this reset was inevitable because the US was being bled dry. The crash was coming, Trump just took hold of the inevitable to reshape the trajectory to everyone's benefit, not just the saving of America. Trump is a patriot. He's playing the long game.
The United States recently pledged
$206 million in late July/August 2026 for an international peacekeeping and stabilization force in Gaza, alongside a broader
$10 billion pledge announced earlier in February 2026 for the
Board of Peace initiative aimed at regional reconstruction.
Kokinda is smart as a whip - she's been in the game, even advising an administration or two, for over 50 years. She knows where-of she speaks.
Well if you like her, keep watching her. Just don't count on me to keep debunking her — politics isn't really my thing. I had to deal with the politics of COVID because that was going way too far. Most of this is just the same-old same-old elites playing with economies to make themselves and their buddies rich.
Your article mentions "centralized, expert-led planning" - you know what that is? Marxism. Communism. Is that your penchant? Are you a Globalist?
Am I a globalist? Sort of. I'm a John Lennon idealist.
Unfortunately, the current globalist elite have twisted that vision into something inverted, dark, and oppressive.
Carney Declares Canada “At War” With Trump... Now 90,000 Jobs Are At Risk
Published August 22, 2026: [Video Run Time 34:59] Elie Cantin-Nantel Channel
Now see how it works both ways to sow division on both sides . . .
Washington, D.C. — A
new analysis from the Center for American Progress finds that the Trump administration’s sweeping tariff agenda has failed to revive American manufacturing and has instead coincided with widespread blue-collar job losses, falling factory investment, and rising costs for American households.
Since President Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs in April 2025, the United States has lost 89,000 manufacturing jobs.
"Mark Carney says Canada is now effectively at war with the United States.
Hyperbole
"After more than a year of negotiations, Carney has walked away from trade talks with the Trump administration and announced that Canada will retaliate with 50% counter-tariffs. Carney says Canada had no choice because the United States simply wouldn't agree to a fair deal. But is there more going on behind the scenes?
"In this emergency episode, I sit down with Georganne Burke, a Canadian-American political strategist and Senior Vice President at The Pathway Group. Burke has spent years working in Canadian conservative politics and has also worked on the Trump campaign in the United States.
"Weeks ago, she warned that Canada was in trouble regarding its relationship with the United States. Now, with negotiations collapsing and a full-scale trade war looming, her warning is even more alarming."
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0:00 Intro
2:54 Interview
34:31 Outro
Just political banter.
I've already made my position clear — I'd like to see a less divisive approach by politicians.
Didn't someone once piont out "
To govern more securely some princes have kept the towns subject to them divided by factions."?
In other words — division keeps the elites in power — so should we really expect that they'd foster anything else?
Let's spread a little love and humor instead . . .
Take a gander at the US/Canada trade surplus and deficits - and which country has the better deal: "In 2026 Canada and the United States exchanged 791.7 billion dollars in goods. Services trade added 216.4 billion dollars. These volumes equal 68.4 percent of Canadian gross domestic product while a 151.2 billion dollar US deficit."