Trump’s “Board of Peace” might sound ridiculous, and perhaps it is. But it’s no more ridiculous than claiming NATO is a board of peace.
That phrase now circulates in respectable company, with a straight face, as though repetition alone could make it true. It cannot. NATO was not born as a peace club, but as a military alliance with a narrow defensive purpose — specifically, to prevent the Soviet Union from rolling tanks across Western Europe.
China is no longer the top security priority for the US, according to the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy.
The document, published once every four years, instead says that the security of the US homeland and Western Hemisphere is the department’s chief concern, adding that Washington has long neglected the “concrete interests” of Americans.
The Pentagon also says it will offer “more limited” support to US allies.
It follows the publication last year of the US National Security Strategy, which said that Europe faced “civilizational collapse” and did not cast Russia as a threat to the US. At the time, Moscow said the document was “largely consistent” with its vision.
Not great news for Europe. For that matter it looks like the free ride is over for everyone.
Given Canada is a virtual ChiCom colony maybe we can expect an invasion.
Paying attention Elbowzos?
You gleefully voted for hollowing out of Canada and will do so again this spring.You’ve strutted your woke arrogance all the way to the poorhouse https://t.co/4WwEOtQm6I
— Dan McTeague (@GasPriceWizard) January 23, 2026
The United States is experiencing a housing crunch, and one of President Donald Trump’s latest moves to address it involves banning large investment firms from purchasing single-family homes.
Canada has also been gripped by a housing affordability crisis in recent years, with soaring rents and home prices. But to what extent are institutional investors driving this trend, and how close is Canada to potentially restricting their ability to purchase homes?
INCREASE IN THE PERCENTAGE OF CANADIANS WHO REPORT BELIEVING THE US/TRUMP IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THREAT TO CANADA RELATIVE TO THE DECREASE IN THOSE WHO REPORT CHINA IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THREAT
Asked what they believe to be the most important international threat to Canada, forty-four percent of Canadians cite the US/Trump.
This more than doubled from the 17 percent of Canadians who reported believing the US/Trump was the most important international threat to Canada in the 2020 wave.
The next threats Canadians cite as most important are China (seven percent) and trade wars (also seven percent). While the percentage of Canadians citing trade wars as the most important international threat to Canada remained consistent relative to the 2020 wave (seven percent), it should be noted that the percentage of Canadians citing China as the most important threat decreased to seven percent in 2025 from twenty-two percent in 2020.
Donald Trump’s growing effort to destabilise Cuba is a natural extension of the US President’s policy to reshape Latin America. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the administration wants to see the collapse of this Caribbean communist regime by the year’s end.
Somalis built America, Rep. Pramila Jayapal claimed.
“You cannot talk about any achievement the City of Boston has had,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu insisted, “without mentioning the Somali community that has lifted our city up.”
Do we live in America or do we live in ‘Somalimerica’?
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick revealed on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime Thursday who the sole booer of his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos was, and why he considered it the “greatest honor.”
Lutnick described the panel he was on at the Summit as “basically a very left set of talks where someone said we need a new form of capitalism, which I think is another way to say communism. And then they let me speak at the end. Then I gave a three-minute talk. And I just talked about my op-ed.”
Link to Lutnick’s FP article – Howard Lutnick: Why the Trump administration is going to Davos
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent needled Canada over the prospect of an independence referendum in Alberta this week, as President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are locked in a clash over Ottawa’s role in the hemisphere.
“Alberta is a natural partner for the U.S.,” he told conservative podcaster Jack Posobiec in an interview Thursday. “They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people. Rumor that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not.”
Scott Bessent discussing ALBERTA 🇨🇦
“Albertans are very independent people. There's a rumor they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not” 👀
Canada *could* be prosperous, but our Liberal policies hold us back. BIG TIME pic.twitter.com/gSvy3vx193
— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) January 23, 2026
A Pew poll released about a year ago noted that just 37 percent of American liberals identify as Christians, versus 82 percent of conservatives and 61 percent of independents.
In 2007, 62 percent of liberals identified as Christian, so the drop, particularly vis-à-vis drops in Christian identification for conservatives and independents, looks Cyclone steep.
For decades, the world treated Greenland as a sentimental footnote in Arctic mythology rather than a linchpin in global security and modern technology. This was strategic negligence with real consequences.
By contrast, President Donald J. Trump saw what Europe could not, or perhaps would not: that Greenland is not a quaint curiosity; in the 21st century, it is an essential security asset and industrial necessity for the West. “Everything comes over Greenland. If the bad guys start shooting, it comes over Greenland,” he said.
From the Arctic flight path of Russian and Chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles to the Arctic shipping lanes increasingly packed with Russian warships, Greenland’s importance has surged.
“Canada is against The Golden Dome being built over Greenland, even though The Golden Dome would protect Canada. Instead, they voted in favor of doing business with China, who will ‘eat them up’ within the first year!” the U.S. president wrote on Truth Social.
Carney travelled to Beijing last week to reignite economic ties with China – Canada’s second largest trading partner after the U.S. He left with a deal reducing tariffs on some Canadian agricultural goods and a quota allowing Chinese EVs to enter the domestic market.
There is an unchangeable “truth” that goes with a Canadian flag draped over a Canadian soldier’s casket and hundreds of patriots standing on a bridge saluting that can’t be erased no matter how powerful the person doing the erasing may be.
Trump was definitely out of line, Canada’s troops were exemplary.
HONG KONG—China has seized upon the disarray left by President Trump within the trans-Atlantic alliance, denouncing his push to acquire Greenland and trying to entice U.S. allies with the promise of reliable trade partnerships.
But as some of Washington’s traditional allies tiptoe closer to Beijing, they appear clear-eyed about the danger of leaving the U.S. embrace only to end up in the hands of another superpower.
“In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice—compete with each other for favor, or to combine to create a third path with impact,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared in a speech Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Canada is “playing with a set of rules that they haven’t really thought through” by moving to reset relations with China ahead of trade deal renegotiations with the United States.
Lutnick made the comments in an interview with Bloomberg in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Lutnick UNLOADS on the arrogance of Carney's speech at WEF.
Lutnick says Canada has the 2nd-best trade deal w/ the US in the world.
Lutnick warns that cozying up to China will have repercussions when renegotiating CUSMA.
— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) January 22, 2026
h/t Mauser
Just like that, U.S. President Donald Trump has shifted his attention from sabre-rattling over Greenland to Canada instead.
The verbal sword that was swung toward Prime Minister Mark Carney was sharp.
WTF?! @fancypants_s https://t.co/w9AEHqXflf
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) January 23, 2026
h/t Patti JO & X — Formerly IB_Joe
