'FIVE EYES' ALLIANCE UNDER THREAT

Perhaps the most concerning latest episode of the chaotic Trump Reality TV Show is the emerging talk that some of his henchmen are calling on Trump to expel Canada from the Five-Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance as part of his pressure play against his nearest neighbour.

The Five-Eyes alliance is the most important top-level intelligence partnership in the world - between the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It arose from the collaboration between American and British codebreakers in WWII and grew to include Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the Cold War in 1956.

The rumours gain weight coming after Trump actually withdrew intelligence access to Ukraine following his recent dummy spit at President Zelensky.

The Financial Times fingered Trump’s senior counsellor on trade and manufacturing, Peter Navarro, as advocating Canada’s eviction from Five Eyes.

Navarro served prison time for refusing to testify when called before the congressional commission investigating the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol. But last December Trump rehabilitated him by naming him as a senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing.

Navarro has subsequently tried to backtrack on the issue but the fact that the suggestion has even seen the light of day should send shockwaves through the western intelligence community.

Surely Trump cannot be serious in his musings that Canada should be America’s 51st state?

With allies like Trump’s America, who needs enemies?