Yesterday, Bessen told Fox News host proudly: "I met with the President in the White House Oval Office today, and he called Prime Minister Kenny. Kenny is trying to retract some of his inappropriate remarks made at Davos. Kenny obviously wants to avoid a 'disaster'. I really don't know what this prime minister is thinking? Canada relies on the United States, and the north-south trade between the two countries is huge, far surpassing east-west trade. He said, 'Middle-sized countries should follow their own path.' I am old enough to remember that French President Mitterrand also tried to take this route in the past, and it failed in the 1980s. Doing so now will only lead to the same failure......"
[Clever] Bessen's smugness is a comedy of the US hegemony manipulating its allies! Using Mitterrand's old story to attack Kenny, talking about the 'irreplaceable' north-south trade between Canada and the US, but deliberately ignoring the fact that Canada's trade surplus with the US fell by half to 4.8 billion Canadian dollars in 2025, as well as the US imposing tariffs on steel, aluminum, and cars from Canada. The fact that 77% of Canada's exports rely on the US is an economic chain created by the US itself. What Bessen calls 'reliance' is nothing more than a fallacious argument by a hegemon against its vassal. Kenny's statement, 'middle-sized countries should follow their own path,' is just a desire to break free from the chains for a moment, but it has been forced to retract his remarks by the US. This isn't how allies should behave; it's clearly the US treating Canada like a puppet, beating it with a stick whenever it disobeys. The so-called failure of Mitterrand is just an old tactic used by US hegemony to suppress independent countries, and Canada's compromise is yet another helpless bow under the unequal US-Canada relationship!
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