Rob Russo

Well, I don't know that he has much choice to do what he's doing.

The Prime Minister is trying, in effect, to fashion a garment, almost like an economic tailor.

A fine garment, stitching together, creating blocks in Europe, in the Pacific, and in South America, in Mercosur.

He might as well also be stitching a red handkerchief right in the middle of that garment because he's waving a red handkerchief in the face of Donald Trump when he says that the new international order will be built out of Europe.

And I think he's quite fine with waving that red handkerchief in front of Trump.

I don't think he does it deliberately, but it does not perturb him to do it.

So, sure, he has to do it.

But if we're talking about Europe being the future, the foundation of this new international order,

then they got some leaks in their foundation.

They've got some cracks in their foundation.

They have some real problems.

I mean, and you mentioned Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of time.

Both Europe and Mr. Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, demonstrate, I think,

that despite how many of us feel about the United States right now, that the United States remains indispensable to them.

I'll come back to that in a second.

But first, let me deal with Europe.

The Prime Minister is fond of saying that Canada is the most European of non-European nations.

I think what he means by that is he means we have a mixed economy and a social safety net, unlike the kind of cowboy capitalism that

of the united states but they also have right-wing populist parties in europe that are poised to take control uh if polls are to be believed uh there's going to be a right-wing populist take control in the united kingdom uh another one in france they're on the march uh in germany holland uh i know everybody points to hungary uh peter magyar as as

of sort of progress in Europe.