Trump is not offering peace in Ukraine

[Alexis Jacobi]

The problem with the fentanyl thing is that it is not the finished product that is the issue — it is easy to make almost anywhere (like a small garage) — but the chemicals to make it with.

Really, they present the fentanyl problem as if the cause is out there and it must be confronted with force. The truth is that mass-addiction is the problem. But access to the chemicals, that’s a genuine thing.

I think the things that phyllo listed are likely the “real reasons” for tariffs.

The issue of how the US should deal with Mexican criminal cartels is a fraught one. Should US military ops be conducted in Mexico to wipe out (assassinate) criminal gangs and their facilities?

That is what Mexican president Sheinbaum meant (I think) when she spoke of “Mexican sovereignty”.

I admit that I would sort of like it if such ops were carried out. But cartels are complex networks with tentacles up to high reaches and to wealth-centers.

My understanding is that US military forces are in fact gearing up now for such operations.

[phyllo]

There has been very little fentanyl and very few migrants crossing on the Canadian border. It went down to even lower levels after Canada committed more than a billion dollars in December 2024 to police the border.

It's a pretext.

[Alexis Jacobi]

This Tim Pool opinion video might interest some. Comments on Trump’s recent speech.

[Immanuel Can]

There has been very little fentanyl and very few migrants crossing on the Canadian border.

Actually, there's been a lot. Your TDS is affecting you. There are huge labs in Manitoba and Alberta, that have been pumping out poison and shipping it south. See the results soon, in all the streets of your major cities.

[phyllo]

In 2024, US Customs seized 49 pounds of fentanyl on the Canadian border.

In January 2025, they seized less than half a pound.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/drug ... statistics

I don't know what's affecting you, but the prognosis is not good.

[Dubious]

As usual the ICFOSS (IC full of shit syndrome...)

What role does Canada play in the U.S. fentanyl supply?

Almost none. In its fact sheet, the Trump administration says Canada has a "growing footprint" in narcotics distribution with Mexican cartels active in the country. But law enforcement and drug policy experts agree that Canada plays a minimal role in fentanyl smuggling into the U.S.

During remarks Saturday night, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said smuggling from Canada contributes less than 1% of the fentanyl street supply in the U.S. Data from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supports Trudeau's claim.

In 2024, only about 43 pounds of fentanyl was seized at America's northern border. That compares with roughly 21,100 pounds seized at the southern border.

Before these tariffs were announced, Canadian law enforcement had already moved to target and crack down on fentanyl producers, hoping to curb the overdose crisis occurring in their own country.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/02/nx-s1-52 ... ada-mexico

Even if absolutely no drugs of any kind crossed the Canada/U.S. border, Trump would still impose tariffs. The drug problem was nothing more than a cheap excuse. If that doesn't work, try another one.

[Immanuel Can]

In 2024, US Customs seized 49 pounds of fentanyl on the Canadian border.

How much got in? Enough to kill billions of people. And fentanyl is now the number one killer of young people in the US. A tiny amount, the sort that can fit under a fingernail, is enough to formulate many doses.

You don't understand how toxic this drug is. And it's used "cut" in many, many other drugs.

[phyllo]

Billions of people are not dying.

After years of rising overdose deaths, the United States recorded 87,000 drug overdose deaths from October 2023 to September 2024, a decrease from 114,000 the previous year, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That was the lowest overdose death toll in any 12-month period since June 2020, the CDC said. Overdose deaths surpassed more than 100,000 for the first time in 2021, with the majority linked to synthetic opioid use. The crisis has devastated small communities and urban centers alike.

Vanda Felbab-Brown, who studies international organized crime as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit think tank, cited two major factors that have helped curb fentanyl’s devastating effects in the United States: law enforcement efforts during the Biden administration to combat the fentanyl production pipeline in China and Mexico and the widespread availability of the overdose reversal medication naloxone.

“These are potentially very ephemeral, but they all predate the tariffs,” she said.

In addition, law enforcement has continued to confiscate fentanyl at the border. About 21,900 pounds of the drug were seized in the 2024 fiscal year. That’s down from over 27,000 in fiscal year 2023 but up from the 14,700 in 2022, according to Customs and Border Protection.

Nearly all of that fentanyl was taken at the U.S. southern border. In the current fiscal year, just 10 pounds have been recovered along the Canadian border to date, compared with 5,400 along the Mexican border, CBP data shows.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tr ... rcna194752

I recognize the futility of posting this.

Trump has weaponized the drug crisis and he's using it to advance his agenda.

There is nothing that Canada can do at the border. There is no way to satisfy Trump about drugs. Because this isn't about drugs.

[Immanuel Can]

Trump has weaponized the drug crisis and he's using it to advance his agenda.

And you think that "agenda" is....what?

[Atla]

From my perspective when I read what you write I have the impression you explain nothing, you don’t develop your ideas. The simple question about location — an answer could have no effect on you — goes unanswered.

Let’s just say: you don’t have much to say.

What would I get from explaining myself to someone dead inside?

Here you have actually said something! Te aplaudo!

Because the topic then, according to you, is precisely what that deadness is. Who is dead? Dead in what sense? Why? How did this come about?

You have defined a platform. Now you have to present your case.

No, you're dead inside (some kind of inherent emotional detachment issue, no wonder you look up to the sociopath IC and the NPD Trump.)
Why do you always need everything explained to you? Don't you understand anything I write? You're the one who never actually says anything. I made many assessments in the last few weeks on the international situation, show one that turned out to be inaccurate.

[Atla]

The trade war issue is one likely above my pay-grade. Is it possible that it might function to bring businesses back into the US? Since a great deal of US suffering has been caused by corporations and manufacturing moving their operations to China (and Mexico, Vietnam, etc.)

It can have multiple functions.

Induce American companies to manufacture in the US.

Induce American companies to harvest US resources.

Force Canadian companies to relocate to the US.

Force Canada to drop some of its protectionist policies.

Weaken Canada so that it can be annexed.

Weaken Canada so American companies can invest in Canada at bargain basement prices.

I think Trump wants Canada's natural resources, so he wants to annex them. Same with Greenland. Soon Trump may find that Greenland is ran by Chinese nazis or something and needs to be rescued.

[Dubious]

Trump has weaponized the drug crisis and he's using it to advance his agenda.

And you think that "agenda" is....what?

...to be King Donald and destroy the Constitution, disallowing all opposition. In summary, to be like his hero, Putin having the same relation to the U.S. as the former has to Russia. One whose word is law, not so much written law because he can't or can barely read! That much is already obvious except to idiots.

[FlashDangerpants]

Trump has weaponized the drug crisis and he's using it to advance his agenda.

And you think that "agenda" is....what?

To get told every day by as many people as possible that he's the best. That's the only thing he's ever been consistently interested in except pussy.

[Alexis Jacobi]

No, you're dead inside (some kind of inherent emotional detachment issue, no wonder you look up to the sociopath IC and the NPD Trump.)

Why do you always need everything explained to you? Don't you understand anything I write?

You're the one who never actually says anything. I made many assessments in the last few weeks on the international situation, show one that turned out to be inaccurate.

Not detachment, rather “intellectual distance”. So many ‘narratives’ are composed of partial truths. Getting to a complete truth is difficult and time consuming.

Whenever certain people want to appear to win a point they 1) compare you to IC or 2) shame you for agreement with him or, in my case, respect for his wide reading in areas those here do not read and should read.

So here’s the thing: I try to see IC fairly, and not hysterically like so many.

Why do I want to “have things explained”? Odd question. We are here to make cases for perspectives. Except you: you are here because you are “bored out of your mind” (I think that is how you put it.

The narrative spin that we receive, depending on what source we get it from, cannot give us proper pictures.

Must I explain this to you!?

[phyllo]

Trump has weaponized the drug crisis and he's using it to advance his agenda.

And you think that "agenda" is....what?

I already posted what what I think he is doing with respect to Canada. And I know you read it.