Geography has given the US unrivaled security. Trump is destroying it | Gil Barndollar and Rajan Menon

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : In threatening war with both Canada and Mexico, Donald Trump is obliterating America's greatest strategic advantage.
53% : By Carney's account, in conversations, Trump has brought up his vision of Canada as the United States' 51st state, something Carney has dismissed outright.
52% : With Trump back in power, the reality is starting to match the rhetoric.
43% : Trump came down that golden escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015 and announced his first presidential bid with a diatribe against Mexican immigrants.
37% : With wars raging in Europe and the Middle East and Trump toying with unprecedented tariffs on many US partners and allies, the fallout from Trump's "America first" policies seem to be primarily in Europe and Asia.
36% : But were Trump to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act at some point, that could change and the military could begin apprehending and detaining Mexican migrants.
35% : Although Trump issued an executive order on the first day of his second term, declaring an emergency on the US-Mexican border, the active duty troops he has deployed there aren't currently engaged in law enforcement, which US law prohibits, only providing logistical support to Customs and Border Protection.
26% : Barely three months into his second term, Donald Trump has damaged, perhaps even irrevocably, relationships with his country's two neighbors and largest trading partners.
25% : But US luck would finally run out if Trump tried to rerun a version of the "war on terror" across the southern border.
16% : In what could be a satire of the post-9/11 ambitions of some American neoconservatives, Trump called the border with Canada "an artificial line" that "makes no sense".
12% : But Canadians' dislike of Trump apparently helped Carney, a political newcomer and the Liberal party's candidate (despite Trump's criticism of Poilievre in a Fox News interview, perhaps because Poilievre, reacting to his falling poll numbers, pivoted to criticizing the American president).

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