Kanada und Mexiko wollen ein trilaterales Abkommen unter CUSMA-Prüfung, sagt der kanadische Minister

I’ll believe LeBlanc on this one. If this is the case, a lot of US leverage will effectively be cooked by the time of the CUSMA/USCMA/MUSCA review. It really seems that the bum rush to achieve a bunch of big-ticket foreign policy goals for the US has stalled itself as countries figured out how to tune out the bluster and stay dialled on what they want out of agreements with the US, whatever value they may hold. This time last year, everyone was rushing to get meetings with US officials who seemed to expect a dragon’s tribute of gold, as countries asked, ‚So… what do you want?‘ and got no coherent response.

It feels like we are watching a reverse version of the Canada on Strike South Park episode except this time it’s just the US going „WE WANT STUFF OR ELSE“ and the rest of the world being the adult in the room about it as a horde of Steven Abootmans flail aimlessly hoping to get stuff.