It's absolutely insane how USA is trying to treat Canada as if they were some vassal state.
Canada has been the strongest supporter of USA in just about every relevant situation since before WW2, that's 85+ years now.
Where Canada has supported USA even in wars at great cost. Canada has been a trustworthy ally, and a respectful trade partner for 85 years now. It is not Canada that has asked USA for help, it has always been Canada helping USA!
And this is how USA want to treat their closest friend and ally?

USA is a despicable country, there is zero return of favors, there is zero respect for either law or tradition or for the independence of other countries.

Fuck USA!

The demise of the average American's economic power wasn't brought on by any of the outside Allies. It was completely designed and carried out by US CEOs to create and then enrich the billionaire class. It wasn't a 'nasty' Canada or 'helpless' EU that caused the problem. It was a US government backed creation and building of the Oligarchs that has purposely destroyed American people's wealth so a select few could become super rich and therefore politically powerful in the bought and paid for American 'democracy'.

Another painful war of choice the child rapist president of the USA started for no reason…

Enjoy the day you voted for America, we won't soon forget this curse you released on the World

this whole episode is a source of shame and embarrassment for the United States.

Like it or not, those who the US elected into power feel no shame or embarrassment, and are the representatives of the US to the rest of the world.

So while I have no doubt it is a source of shame and embarrassment to many Americans, to the United States it’s just another untreated self-inflicted wound.

"Funny" thing with all that is that what makes the US debt bearable is the dollar being held up by US soft power. Thanks to Trump everyone is slowly (or quickly for some) reducing their dependency on the dollar. Guess what happens next?

Nero fiddling and dancing while Rome burns.

Let it burn to the ground.

Nobody ever thought this was included in American power. This is the result of a pants-shitting sack of pathetic

while I agree with the stated topic of the article, Josh Marshall the author of this article, who also runs talking points memo is a hardcore fan of a certain middle east pseudostate accused of war crimes and ~80 years of racist mass murder of innocents and theft. So I dont beleive a single word he says about any topic. There are cleaner sources to get info from than this sad awful disappointment of a human being and I dont recommend anyone use his site for any purpose. We have to push back in every way we can against these people, including deplatforming them on every topic, not just when they speak of their heartfelt love of war criminal acts and the people that do them. It has to be all the time-- same as we all treat pedophiles.

This acknowledges colonial structure language. The obvious is that you get more colonial servant loyalty by not needlessly publicly humiliating the servant and his people, to be able to ask for important favours that are dutifully executed. Extra dumb to attack countries you have a trade surplus with.

The mistake of the Iran war could easily have been avoided if smarter allies than Trump could have explained to the dotard that it wasn't going to work. The surprise attack did 0, and was a complete embarrassment. But the weak lashing out of no one jumping in to help while telling all their help would be useless, should be a private embarrassment of being told no beforehand.