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Robert Fife and Adrian Morrow
OTTAWA and WASHINGTON — The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Feb. 09, 2017 11:43AM EST
Last updated Thursday, Feb. 09, 2017 8:21PM EST

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to Washington on Monday to hold talks at the White House with Donald Trump, hoping to develop a personal bond of trust with an unpredictable U.S. President who is pushing an America First trade and global agenda.
This will be the first face-to-face encounter between the two leaders with radically different approaches to trade, immigration and international relations, although they have had two telephone conversations since Mr. Trump became President.
“They look forward to discussing ‎the unique relationship between Canada and the United States of America and how we can continue to work hard for middle-class Canadians and Americans, together,” said Kate Purchase, the Prime Minister’s communications director.
The challenge for an avowed social progressive like Mr. Trudeau is to paper over his differences with the new President and find common ground on economic and national-security issues.
Top of the agenda will be trade relations, particularly the President’s plans to renegotiate the 1994 North American free-trade agreement. Another item on Canada’s radar is a Republican proposal to impose a “border-adjustment tax” on foreign imports, not unlike a surcharge president Richard Nixon briefly imposed in 1971. The talks also will likely focus on Russia, the fight against the Islamic State and Canada’s contribution to NATO.
The President does not yet have his trade team in place because the U.S. Senate has still not confirmed Wilbur Ross as Commerce Secretary, Robert Lighthizer as trade representative and Treasury Secretary-nominee Steven Mnuchin.
“This gives the Prime Minister the opportunity to probe discreetly and try to find out what their intentions are and make the point that our relations are not like others,” said former Canadian ambassador to Washington Derek Burney, who has been an informal adviser to Mr. Trudeau along with former Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney.
Even more important is for Mr. Trudeau to develop the kind of chemistry that Mr. Mulroney had with Ronald Reagan, once considered a hard-right conservative who was unpopular in Canada.
“We were a bit smug about Ronald Reagan yet there was no president where we achieved as much as that guy in a long, long time,” Mr. Burney said.
Mr. Burney expressed confidence that the Prime Minister, known for his charm and charisma, will be able to win over the real estate tycoon and former reality-show star even if they share different ideologies.
“Those guys were both not expected to win and they both won. They are both creatures of social media. So they have a lot in common,” Mr. Burney said. “They don’t have an ideology in common but does anybody really know what Donald Trump’s ideology is? Even Republicans don’t know.”
Mr. Trump is known to have been unhappy after the Prime Minister delivered an effusive statement on the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The Washington Post has also described Mr. Trudeau as “a leader of the liberal global resistance to President Trump” and said his message of “inclusivity and multiculturalism stands in contrast” to that of the U.S. leader.
Amnesty International picked up on that theme in an open letter to Mr. Trudeau on Thursday, urging him to confront the President about human rights – from the ban on Syrian refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries to his support for torture.
“Prime Minister Trudeau cannot equivocate when he sits down for his first face-to-face meet with President Trump. He must make it clear that Canada needs and expects the President to advance human-rights protections at home and abroad; not set it back,” said Béatrice Vaugrante, director-general of Amnesty International Canada.
But Conservative trade critic Gerry Ritz said Mr. Trudeau must be vigilant about not coming across as anti-Trump, even if it may be popular in Canada...
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Trump and Trudeau change the channel from existential threats to women in the workplace: Neil Macdonald
Because women, you know, they're phenomenal. Big league
By Neil Macdonald, CBC News Posted: Feb 13, 2017 9:05 PM ET/ Last Updated: Feb 14, 2017 6:29 AM ET

To be clear: Justin Trudeau, on his way to meet with a president who has hinted at deep, even existential damage to Canada's trading economy and perhaps even its sovereignty on security matters, decided he wanted a showy meeting about the role of women in the workplace.
No matter that even a few days ago, nobody on either side of the visit was saying anything in briefings about women in the workforce. There'd been too much negative coverage about free trade and immigration and border crossing problems. The subject needed changing, big league.
It was a bit rich, given the history of this president, but it was understandable, and it worked.

Everybody won: Trudeau got to be the feminist again, and Trump, the fellow with the grabby hands and the history of bullying and bad-mouthing female employees, got to sit with a photogenic foreign leader and a bunch of women executives and look concerned. Trump's daughter Ivanka, a private businesswoman who officially has no role at the White House, sat beside Trudeau, looking like she had a big official role in the White House.
At the table, Trump himself announced the creation of something called the "Canada-United States Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs," because women, in Trump's words, are "phenomenal," and "I know, Justin, in Canada, it's happening, big league, and it's very important."

Shared values

Publicly, the two men tried to ensure the topic superseded all other things, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump has threatened to rip up, and NATO spending (Trump is demanding Canada double its contribution) and whatever it is Trump is instructing his customs and immigration agents to do this week, and the mortal security threat of Syrian refugees, whom Trump wants to ban from the United States altogether, and whom Canada is welcoming by the tens of thousands, sometimes personally, by a weeping prime minister.
At a news conference later, Trump went pretty quickly to the topic of women in the workforce, after reading out a short homily in which, rather curiously, he declared that Canada and the United States share the same values, as though he wasn't standing beside Justin Trudeau.
He also talked about how the two countries have shed blood together, and love freedom, and value growth and have special bonds, and even agree about the importance of "safe cross border travel….and migration," the last two words croaked out under what must have been extreme persuasion.
Then, turning to a beaming Trudeau, he declared: "We discussed how everything we know is that the full power of women can do better than anybody else. We know that."
Trudeau then replied that we have special bonds, and that we've suffered together, and celebrated together, and have a deep and abiding respect for each other, and fought wars together, etc., etc.
If the lily was gilded, laboriously and lengthily gilded, it was for good reason.
The two men on stage don't really agree on much. Trudeau comes from a Canadian political class that holds Trump in utter contempt, just as most American liberals do, and Trump, unless he's a complete ninny, has to know that.
Trudeau, eventually, did get round to politely reeling off a series of statistics about how deeply integrated the two national economies are, on just about every level, and, by implication, how unravelling that would be lunacy. As the prime minister spoke, Trump wore the expression he always wears when someone else is talking, eyes narrowed, lips pursed, bored by detail, anxious to get back to making America great again.

Finally, came the questions. There were two softball lobs from American reporters selected by Trump, both of whom outraged the White House press corps by sticking to Canada-U.S. relations and ignoring the biggest political story in America right now: the possibly illegal assurances Trump's national security adviser gave Russian officials while Barack Obama was still in power about dropping Obama's sanctions. Trudeau couldn't have known it, but that little drama played out under his nose, with him as a prop.
Two Canadian reporters, though, did their jobs very well. One asked bluntly whether Trump is confident the border with Canada is secure, and the other asked bluntly whether Trump considers Canada a fair trader and whether he has any ruinous changes to NAFTA in mind.
Boom. The two big ones.

No border issue

To the first, Trump said you can never be totally confident, but then started saying that he'd seen incredible, encouraging efforts, before hiving off on a tangent about how he's getting rid of "very, very hardened criminals," which is why he was elected with such a "very large electoral college vote," and why so many Americans are so "very, very, happy" with him.
So the Canadian border is not an issue, and won't be disastrously thickened. You could almost hear Trudeau's officials begin to exhale off camera.
On the second question, Trump said the words Trudeau's ministers and officials had been praying for all week: "I agree with [Trudeau] 100 per cent. We have a very outstanding trade relationship with Canada."
He'll want tweaks to NAFTA where Canada is concerned, nothing more. Mexico, he added, is the real problem.
Off camera, noises of Canadian officials and ministers hyperventilating in relief. In Canada, business leaders falling off chairs, fainting with delight.
The big deliverable, delivered: Trump doesn't want to screw us.

Oh, and the role of women in the workforce, of course. That's crucial. We can't forget about that. Because women, you know, they're phenomenal. Big league.
Джерело : cbc.ca
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TThe Art of the Deal: Can Trump Reach Agreement on Ukraine with Putin?
Douglas Macgregor
February 21, 2017

President Donald Trump, an American nationalist committed to the restoration of America’s economic prosperity, particularly the strength of its middle class and the rule of law and peace abroad, is now pitted against President Vladimir Putin, the Russian nationalist, on key national-security matters in Europe. It’s unclear what the final result will be, but as Trump argued in April 2016, it’s definitely time for a new American strategy.
For the Trump administration to reshape relations with Moscow, it’s important to realize that Vladimir Putin, like his country, has a foot in two camps—the Bolshevik and the Tsarist camps. George Kennan’s advice to President Truman in 1947 is still instructive: “It is a sine qua non of successful dealing with Russia,” he wrote, that “demands on Russian policy should be put forward in such a manner as to leave the way open for a compliance not too detrimental to Russian prestige.”
Putin is calculating, well educated and self-aware. Putin was not surprised that his seizure of Crimea provoked a military confrontation with the West. And despite damaging sanctions and almost universal hostility to Moscow’s act, Putin guided Russia through the economic storm with surprising success.
These points notwithstanding, to approach Putin with another rendition of Obama’s demands for a Russian retreat from Crimea would be dead on arrival. Crimea was never an integral part of Ukraine—at least not until 1954, when Nikita Khrushchev presented Crimea as a gift to his buddies in the Ukrainian Communist Party (allegedly in a drunken stupor). Most important, Putin’s reconquest of Crimea, his reform and modernization of the Russian Armed Forces, and reinvigoration of Russia’s moribund economy have been characterized by Patriarch Kirill, Moscow’s Orthodox Christian leader, as a “miracle of God.” All Russians may not agree with the patriarch, but most are supportive of Putin.
It is true that Putin wants to return Ukraine to Moscow’s control. Doing so would place Russian military power directly on the Polish border in a position to intimidate the West, a geostrategic posture the tsars also favored. The question is: can Putin be convinced that this outcome is not attainable? The answer is . . . maybe.
Putin knows that there are at least thirty million Ukrainians who will fight against the Russian army if it invades Ukraine proper. Worse, the fierce bloodletting in the Donbas has simply added to the numbers of young Ukrainians violently opposed to Moscow’s rule. Murdering six to twelve million Ukrainians (depending on whose numbers you prefer), as the Bolsheviks did in the 1920s and 1930s, is off the table. In fact, Putin would much prefer to capture the Ukrainian manpower pool, with the goal of augmenting the diminishing numbers of Slavs available for service in the Russian Armed Forces.
Putin is also sensitive to the attitudes inside his own population. It’s one thing for Russians to kill Muslim minorities in the Caucasus, a recurring Russian strategy for three hundred years. However, it’s another to kill Christian Slavs in Ukraine. It’s not popular.
In sum, Putin may not like the idea of abandoning his campaign to restore imperial Russian control of Ukraine proper, but, depending on what President Trump offers, he may well be able to persuade Putin that it makes sense to do so. One avenue worth exploring is a future for Ukraine modeled on the 1955 Austrian State Treaty...
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цікава стаття від російського журналіста Олега Панфілова.

тобто розпустили вже слюні - ну все, тепер все саме собою склеїться, все всім простять... і Крим віддадуть, і Донбас, і в Сирії Асада лишать, і чим більша в тебе площа - тим ти крутіший...
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С какой стати Путин решил, что Трамп ему должен сочувствовать или хотя бы жалеть? Как он себе это представлял? Если российские спецслужбы все-таки собирали "компромат" на Трампа, то с трудом представляется, что это может быть и каким образом его собирались распространять. Если только попугать, намекнуть, то шантаж может обернуться для Путина не просто забвением, в котором он уже практически находится, но и более жесткими мерами. Трудно найти американца, который поверит чужому компромату, тем более – российскому.
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