Trump’s foreign policy has a pattern and this week ran it again. You watched him ask the allies he tariffed and insulted to send warships into the Strait of Hormuz. You watched Cuba lose electricity, running on two hours a day before the airport blacked out entirely. You watched Canada’s prime minister hit his one-year mark with grades that depend entirely on what you think the job actually requires.

**Tariffs, Insults, Annexation Threats. Then a Request for Warships.**

You do not tariff and insult and threaten annexation and then expect a coalition to form. Gas is over two dollars a litre for diesel already and the Strait of Hormuz campaign has no visible endpoint. The surprise at the silence is the most revealing part of the story.

**A Blacked-Out Airport, a Year of Carney, and Canada’s Cuba Question**

Cuba is running on two hours of electricity a day and the airport has gone dark. Canada has always had a relationship with Cuba that the US does not, and eight million dollars in aid is not going to settle what comes next. Carney gets an A-plus for keeping his government together and an incomplete for the results that have not arrived yet.

Topics: Trump foreign policy Canada, Cuba electricity crisis, Mark Carney one year, Strait of Hormuz coalition, Canadian gas prices tariffs

Originally aired on2026-03-16