TOI correspondent from Washington: Donald Trump’s MAGA-infused US is rupturing a long-standing Anglophone alliance.
There are growing indications that the Trump administration is ready to dump its English-speaking friends if they do not support MAGA principles of limiting immigration, from vice president JD Vance describing Britain as the world’s first” really Islamic state” to Peter Navarro apparently proposing expulsion of the largely democratic Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network.
The US’ northern neighbor was shocked to learn that a major Trump secretary has suggested removing Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence community, one of the closest and most effective tech empire that also includes the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, hours after Trump officially trolled Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau by refering to him as” Governor Trudeau” in his efforts to make it the 51st American condition.
According to reports, Trump advisor Peter Navarro made the suggestion as part of a campaign to pressure Canada into a US-based fusion. It is no secret that Washington has been on a rampage against Canada, accusing it of milking the US for decades, but Navarro later refuted the Financial Times report and called it “nonsense.”
The Five Eyes intel group has been a focal point of close ties between the US and Canada for more than a century, and the two countries coordinated their actions to corner India over the alleged trans-continental operations against Sikh radicals in America. The five Anglo-American countries have a sizable amount of intelligence to share, making Pine Gap, the CIA-led satellite station in central Australia, the subject of a fictional Netflix series.
However, the alliance with Trump’s return to the White House is not all that great, with his MAGA base becoming increasingly suspicious of the demographic shifts occurring in Canada, the UK, and Australia under Liberal/Labour dispensations. Trump and his associates are now openly campaigning for regime change in these nations to install more nativist governments that adhere to MAGA and its guiding principles of reducing immigration.
JD Vance, a stunning critic of Britain, suggested that the UK, not Pakistan, deserved the title of the first Islamist nation with nuclear weapons, just before Trump’s choice to be his running mate. Some nativists now refer to its capital city of London as” Londonistan.” Before a state visit in 2019, Trump himself called London’s Mayor a” stone cold loser.” Australia has also lost its place in the US spotlight after Labour Party President Anthony Albanese disparaged the MAGA supremo, and New Zealand has grown too resentful of the Trump government’s return.
