{"id":47198,"date":"2026-08-27T15:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47198"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:40:03","slug":"the-moose-that-roared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47198","title":{"rendered":"The Moose That Roared"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/the-moose-that-roared?publication_id=277517&amp;post_id=212474680&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=16ex0z\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https3A2F2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com2Fpublic2Fimages2Ff22fdcde-05b7-4363-ac5f-1af57cb3a7a8_1429x953.jpeg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:204px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why Trump will lose his war with Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/the-moose-that-roared\">The Moose That Roared<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The point is not that Canada has \u201cescalation dominance\u201d\u00a0\u2014 the ability to retaliate to every U.S. action with an even more damaging counterreaction \u2014\u00a0in a trade conflict with the United States. Rather, the point is that an\u00a0all-out trade war\u00a0would create a lot of pain in the U.S. in addition to inflicting severe damage to the Canadian economy. <strong><em>And all indications are that the Canadians will be much more willing to bear the pain of a trade war than Americans will<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 especially given that the great majority of Americans are already dissatisfied with Trump\u2019s economic management.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this.  we can do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Trump will lose his war with Canada Source: The Moose That&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,2075,57],"class_list":["post-47198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-tarrifs","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47202,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47198\/revisions\/47202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}