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MLI Senior Fellow @jbmllr joined @JamesMLindsay on the @CFR_org podcast to discuss Canada's effort to diminish its vulnerability to U.S. economic threats and just how much middle powers like Canada can successfully hedge in a world of great power competition.
“When [Trump] demands that allies pay more, contribute more, and align more closely with American strategic priorities, he is not abandoning alliances. He is insisting they function as alliances rather than as charity.
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"This is not paranoia dressed as policy. It is observation."
What if Trump is painfully right?: Stephen Nagy for Inside Policy | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Trump’s methods offend, but his diagnosis of freeloading allies and a failing international order may be uncomfortably closer to reality.
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