Question: Why did the United States of America's Dictatorship terminate intelligence sharing with and (inadequate) security assistance to Ukraine prior to proposing a 30-day ceasefire?
Breaking news, Politico:
The United States will immediately lift the pause in intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine, according to a joint statement issued after a meeting of the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
In return, Ukraine agreed to accept a U.S. proposal for the immediate introduction of a temporary 30-day cease-fire that can be extended by mutual agreement, subject to acceptance and simultaneous implementation by Russia.
Answer: Because the "D" holder of the USAD underwent another of his toddler tantrams in response to Ukraine's President Zelensky questioning, with immense patience, the aforementioned D's intelligence. Said tantram then cost dozens of Ukrainian lives, given the absence of intelligence gathering on Russia's upcoming missile strikes.
Proof of proposition:
[D] escalated his burgeoning trade war with Canada, declaring that he’ll double the steel and aluminum tariffs set to take effect tomorrow to 50 percent.
[He] said the higher levies were payback for the Ontario premier’s own retaliatory move yesterday to add a 25 percent surcharge to electricity exports to three U.S. states.
It would seem to even semi-alert minds that America's autocrat has failed to grasp the logical progress of needlessly imposed tariffs — especially those applied to America's closest friends.
More to the thematic point of this post, the doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs comes only from the unfathomable immaturity of D, possessor of the world's thinnest skin. The resulting damage to America's economy — Canada's too, of course — is of no concern whatsoever to a child, this child, of severely limited intelligence and voided impulse control.
Ontario's premier, Doug Ford — God love him — did however err in saying "If we go into a recession, it’s self-made by one person. It’s called President Trump’s recession."
The United States once had presidents. Some were great, some were ineffably awful. But no longer does a president sit in the White House. We instead have an infantile imbecile of a self-declared, congressionally approved dictatorship.
I wish foreign leaders and journalists would get that straight. It's neither complicated nor controversial.
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Postscript & update: "Hours after President Trump" — there they go again — "said he would impose extra heavy tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, the White House reversed course because of a concession from across the border. Both sides backed down after Ontario’s premier, Doug Ford, suspended a surcharge on the province’s electricity exports to Michigan, Minnesota and New York." (NYT)
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