UPDATED: August 18, 2026 at 8.11 PM PST. Trump pauses imposition of 50% tariffs for three days
Trump postpones 50% tariff he threatened for some Canadian goods | CNN Business
Greencrow comments: Too bad…more jerking around from the Trump Fraudster. Canada should just cut him loose and let him twist in the wind!
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Good Tuesday afternoon beloved sentients.The wheels are coming off the American Imperial bus and it’s cringeworthy–but also in a sad way satisfying to watch. It couldn’t happen to a more worthy Empire…led as it is by a demented, narcissistic dictator who’s main social tools are the insult, the threat and the terroriZing “deadline”.
It’s biZarre to watch these sociopathic tools being used across the world on Iran–and at the same time on ourselves in Canada–with the same outcome. Utter failure.
First, we will look at Iran where Trump just this morning unilaterally and ludicrously declared the Strait of Hormuz “US territory”. Please see the links below and I will continue commentary thereafter:
“Hopium” is an important component of The Escalation Trap–getting the feckless Americans to think that victory is “just around the corner”.
The Escalation Trap explained by the author of the book about it
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Below, Trump tells another of his insulting and over the top lies…Americans keep sucking them up so…why not?!
The United States now pays over a Trillion a year US$ in service fees alone to maintain their plunder-based economy under the burden of endless wars.
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EU – Canada
Meanwhile, Canada has now formally joined the European Economic Community [EU] We’ve flown the US coop–or been chased out of the coop–however you want to view it.
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Greencrow continues: The feckless Americans obviously forgot that, prior to WWII, Canada was economically hardwired to the UK, the British Commonwealth and Europe.
During WWII, Canada operated the largest merchant marine fleet of ships in the world and supplied Europe with all sorts of resources to fight WWII. This is a fact I learned in Canadian history courses in university. Now, I see with a google search this fact is being denied. Well ain’t that interesting….
It was only after the War that Canada was tricked [IMO] into disbanding our merchant marine and subjecting our military to US dominance. This was based on a misplaced trust of the US. Very foolish because we knew even then who ran the US ever since 1913 when the Rothchild banks took over the American financial system.
Now, beginning with the January 2025 declaration of War on Canada–which officially began over the Mara Lago dinner when Trump told then Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau that the US was going to make Canada the 51st State…Canada has, with the help of our European allies, been building a defense mechanism to preserve our sovereignty.
One of the main pillars of this national defense strategy is diversifying our trade partners and signing deals with foreign nations that actually uphold legal agreements. Another is breaking down inter provincial trade barriers and starting mega projects to increase and develop our energy self-suffiency. See the big announcement made by Prime Minister Carney just yesterday involving the provinces of Newfoundland/Labrador and Quebec.
Map of latest super energy project announced by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
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Greencrow continues: Folks There is nothing so dangerous on this planet as a cornered rat. This was eloquently described by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his biography–which I read a decade or so ago.
Putin described his childhood living in a St. Petersburg tenement building filled with rats. He whiled away his days chasing the rats through the apartment corridors with a sharp stick. He was always very careful once he had a rat cornered–as then they became the most dangerous–lunging out and attacking with their teeth. The same is true of the US. It has itself cornered–thanks to its Satanic handlers.
As Sorcha Faal says in the excellent report/analysis below…not only is the US cornered–with no way out either with Iran or with Canada–America is fighting a losing war in a world that no longer exists:
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America Fights Losing War In World That No Longer Exists
“…the Wall Street Journal released its article “Iran Is Defying U.S. Pressure by Becoming a ‘Survival Economy’” factually documenting that Iran is no where close to an economic collapse—then it released its article “Iran’s Secret Plan To Escalate The War”, wherein chief Iranian negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf described the current stalemate as “the calm before the storm”, and Iran negotiating team member Mohammad Hassan Sangtarash warned: “There is a widespread view in Iran that the main war has not yet begun…The Iranian nation still has much unfinished business with Trump, and Iran is prepared for the great confrontation”.
Along with President Trump blockading the Strait of Hormuz to stop goods from entering or leaving Iran, this report continues, his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed to force Iran’s capitulation with sanctions, that Ambassador Mike Waltz branded “Operation Economic Fury”—Pakistan has already countered all of these American moves by opening six massive land corridors allowing goods to and from Iran to bypass the blockaded Strait of Hormuz—and world-renowned retired CIA senior analyst Larry Johnson, in his intelligence report “The Walls Have Doors Now: Why Bessent’s “Unprecedented” Sanctions On Iran — Operation Economic Fury — Will Fail”, assessed today:
Bessent’s plan to force Iran’s surrender through unprecedented sanctions is built for a world that ended sometime between 2018 and 2026.
The instrument that worked in 2015 worked because isolation was total and because the money still ran through American pipes.
Today neither condition holds, and neither can be restored by American action alone, because the decisive variables — the willingness of Russia, China, and Pakistan to keep the physical doors open, and the migration of Iran’s oil revenue into CIPS-cleared yuan — lie outside Washington’s control.
“Maximum pressure” can inflict maximum pain; the currency collapse proves that. What it can no longer reliably produce is surrender, because a state that imports through Pakistani roads, finances through a BRICS bank, sells its oil for yuan beyond the dollar’s reach, and fights under a shield that Moscow and Beijing help repair has room to endure that the Iran of 2015 did not.
The likely outcome is therefore not capitulation but a more thoroughly Eastern-aligned Iran that hurts but does not break — and that emerges bound more tightly than ever to the very powers whose cooperation the United States would need to squeeze it.
The deepest irony of Operation Economic Fury is that the harder Washington presses on the sealed side of the box, the faster Iran walks out through the open one.
Bessent may yet unveil measures the world has never seen. He cannot unveil a world in which Iran has nowhere left to go, and no currency left to trade in but the dollar — because that world no longer exists.
As for the cost of America fighting a losing war in a world that no longer exists, this report concludes, it beyond shockingly revealed today: “The U.S. fiscal deficit jumped to $432.3 billion in July, its highest monthly total since March 2021, pushing the year-to-date shortfall to nearly $1.8 trillion…Interest paid to finance the nearly $40 trillion national debt has cost the government about $1.2 trillion this year”….”
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Greencrow concludes: So, the US is now doubly cornered–in the self-started War on Iran and the self-started tariff War on Canada. Both Iran and Canada hold the cards. Iran holds the Strait of Hormuz and Canada holds all the critical resources that the US needs but wanted to steal out from under Canada.
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BREAKING NEWS: Canada leaves Washington meeting without a deal as Lutnick joins Greer for nearly two hours of tariff talks
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How did the US get itself so cornered?
The tragic truth is that the US was led to its current disastrous double imbroglio by the “Hidden Network” that it allowed to control it ever since 1913. Many, including many Americans, have tried in vain to warn the people of the US…but to no avail. Here’s one such prophet…who was murdered [like so many others] for his efforts to save the US from itself. Cooper was aware of the hidden hand that controlled the US and also controls ALL international institutions–which is why the UN and the ICJ have been missing in action during the past few years of Trumpian crises.
The Late, Great Bill Cooper – one of those who inspired my career as a truthseeker
Sentients, tomorrow is a pivotal day for Canada…Trump might just wake up in the middle of the night tonight and post a RANT threatening to “bomb the shit” out of Canada …just as he threatened the former US ally Oman just this morning.
Stay tuned.
Greencrow as the crow flies 