"Superpower Suicide" — Timothy Snyder on What America Is Doing to Itself

The gist

1. Galloway notes Canada sends 70% of its exports to the US and is America's largest customer, making the current economic conflict strange.
2. Snyder argues Trump officials see the US as a vehicle for a few people's short-term gain, not as a state with interests.
3. Snyder says Carney's sound response is tying Canada to the EU, the UK and Ukraine, building an economy bigger than China, Russia or the US.
4. Snyder coined "superpower suicide" to describe the US undermining education, science and democracy, the things that would make it powerful later.
5. Snyder compares today to 1920s Germany and to the Soviet collapse, which he says Trump's circle sees as a model for breaking things and grabbing resources.