White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group

[OnlinePoker]

Source: Financial Times

A top White House official has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network as Donald Trump increases pressure on the country he talks about turning into the 51st US state.

Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes — which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand — according to people familiar with his efforts inside the administration.

Trump has said he wants to annex Canada and has vowed to press ahead with 25 per cent tariffs on imports from the country when a one-month reprieve elapses on March 4.


Read more: https://www.ft.com/content/2dfa3c11-64a7-49f6-83df-939b8d1cfb8e

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There is no doubt that Trump and his team are Russian assets.

[rampartd]

1. if i had to pick one eye to poke out, it wouldn't be canada

what value do we now add to the coalition?

[gab13by13]

2. Exactly,

5 Eyes is already down to 4 Eyes. No way the other 4 countries are going to share intelligence with us.

[hatrack]

6. They're not sharing shit, and they shouldn't . . . .

They're not the nations that vote alongside North Korea, Russia and Belarus.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. None of the other four "eyes" will trust trump or Tulsi

trump and Tulsi will tell Putin everything

[ancianita]

37. Ridiculous, isn't it. The Koch/Musk oligarchy has removed its own damn self from the Five Eyes. As if

the other major Western Eyes can't manage intelligence and counterintelligence without us. It's because of their help that our past DOJ had actually made so many international arrests.

The U.S. oligarchy's intelligence and their own activities will now be targeted by the Four Eyes for the safety of the West against the Axis of Evil.

[rampartd]

38. aside from operational security

what can we add. we've fired all the agents and had their sources revealed. we have nothing to offer except internet conspiracies and enquirer headlines.

[ancianita]

40. Nothing. There is no "we," either. The American people are NOT with this.

[Wingus Dingus]

3. LOL, why would a largely UK-dominated group kick out a UK affiliated member?

Especially for no real reason other than punishment and harrassment? Krasnov and Co. still think they have international clout. It's time for them to have the rudest of awakenings.

[Irish_Dem]

4. The destruction of the democratic alliance is going quite nicely. :(

Trump is the most valuable Russian agent Putin has ever had.

[bleedingulcers]

5. This is pretty ballsy....

If anybody is getting kicked out of Five Eyes, I would think that the US would top the list of candidates...

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. We're in the sad position of Steve Fucking Bannon being the MAGA voice of reason

Form the article:

Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist who helped Trump win in 2016, said Canada needed to realise that Trump was not trolling Trudeau but was serious about wanting to annex the country.

He said Canada lacked the resources to defend itself particularly as China attempts to become an Arctic power. But he said any move to evict Canada from the Five Eyes would be a counter-productive move that would just end up hurting America.

“Canada punches way above their weight. If you look at military history, they’ve been the best ally we’ve had,” Bannon said.

[gab13by13]

9. Bannon is pissed that Musk replaced him.

The feud is good for us.

[GreenWave]

26. Maybe he should start wearing three shirts.

[Scalded Nun]

8. Hey, USA...There is the door. BTW, we do not give a shit if it does hit you on the way out.

[Ocelot II]

10. Isn't it down to Four Eyes already, since I doubt any of the others

want to share anything with Fats Krasnov that's more classified than grandma's secret recipe for meat loaf.

[erronis]

23. My first thought, also. Four Eyes losing a treacherous US.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. This stupid idea is from Peter Navarro

Navarro is a truly stupid person

Link to tweet

[zorbasd]

15. Peter f#cking Navaro!

the stupidest POS jailbird conman to ever come from CA, once a UCI econ professor, if you can believe that atrocity.

[erronis]

24. Drugs, white privilege and probably carefully cultivated.

[travelingthrulife]

18. May as well expel the US. NO ONE will share info with us after Trump.

[Cha]

30. Why don't the UK, Australia, New Zealand, AND

Canada Expel the Fuck head Fascists?

[Skittles]

41. crazy

[IronLionZion]

13. There are some who want to include Israel

if we really want to be in perpetual war.

Knowing Trump, he probably wants to join Russia, North Korea, China, etc.

Russia is closely allied with plenty of countries that Republicans are against but are too stupid to know it. Like Iran, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Houthis in Yemen, and more.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Who thinks that trump has already sold secrets to Putin?

[ratchiweenie]

16. I assume Navarro will want to replace Canada with Russia.

[travelingthrulife]

17. Ahhh...the criminal Navarro rears his ugly head.

[ck4829]

19. That seems counterproductive to the idea of annexing Canada

[wolfie001]

20. Only a moron would do something like that

Petty mf'er. This American is rooting for Canada.

[markie]

21. "There is no doubt....

...that Trump and his team are Russian assets."

[mdbl]

22. UK, Australia and New Zealand and Canada

should tell Navarro and Dump to fuck off exclude them. Can't trust our intelligence system anymore anyway.

[Cha]

31. That was basically my idea, too.

TY

[PortTack]

25. I question if orange buffoon can do that. Doesn't matter, as already pointed out, no one is going to share with the US

[Vinca]

27. I think the only Eye that might find itself excluded is the United States. Why would any country want to share

intelligence with a Russian asset?

[aggiesal]

28. This is going to backfire ...

NATO and allies are going to drop the U.S. from seeing their classified info, even if it pertains to U.S. security, because they're concerned that we will just pass it along to Put-In, which Mierda47 probably would.

[ShazzieB]

29. What does "pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes" mean?

Can one country (the US) unilaterally push out another one (Canada)? Wouldn't others have to agree?

If it has to be a group consensus, which I'm betting is the case, I think the other four would push us out before they'd agree to eject Canada.

I wonder if the real aim is to create a scenario that would give Trump an excuse to pull us out. He's not much on alliances of any kind, as we've seen.

[underpants]

32. If there's one thing the Clustertrump wants it's less information

How completely stupid.

[LudwigPastorius]

33. Considering that any intel Canada passes on to the U.S. probably now goes straight to the FSB,...

they might just pull out to protect themselves.

[2naSalit]

34. It's more likely...

We get shut out than anyone else. We have become the clear and present danger.

[niyad]

35. Exactly what is the procedure for removing one of the Five Eyes?

[slightlv]

36. Give it up trump.... you are NOT going to talk a sovereign country

into becoming our "51st state." And if you're so hepped up on adding to our numbers, there are a more than a few protectorates out there that DO want to join statehood. What? They're the wrong color? Sorry.... /snark

Canada should come right back and propose cutting the United States out of the Five Eyes Program, for being associated with Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, and Hungary. Since THESE are exactly the countries the Five Eyes are concerned about, allowing United States to stay in the organization would be self-defeating to everyone's safety and security. At least, that's the way I see it.

[pfitz59]

39. I'm sure other nations

are already restricting intel sharing with the US. Puts them at risk and has no upside.

[Amaryllis]

42. I heard Peter Navarro on NPR this AM and he has zero ability to read the room.