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America and Canada were until recently the world’s leading ‘BFFs’ — they share the longest border on the planet, have fully integrated armed forces, and routinely voted for the other as their ‘favorite’ foreigners.
That goodwill has evaporated within weeks, as President Donald Trump slaps tariffs on its northern neighbor, threatens to annex a ’51st state,’ and as Canada scrambles to find new defense buddies.
As the $762 billion US-Canada trade relationship hits a crisis point, security chiefs on both sides of the border are asking whether their decades-old military alliance, perhaps the tightest tie-up to date, has a future.
The rupture comes as international competition heats up in the nearby Arctic, with its coveted minerals and shipping lanes, and where Russia builds bases and America eyes another land grab in Greenland.
Analysts told the Daily Mail that US-Canada ties would not collapse overnight, but that military cooperation was already …