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Trump’s plan for ‘hemispheric control’: Steve Bannon on why tariffs may only be the start - National | Globalnews.ca

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Steve Bannon , a former top aide to U.S. President Donald Trump , says he knows exactly what’s going on.

He says the Arctic is going to be the “new game of the 21st century ” and a military weakness.

Melting polar ice caps are making the far north more accessible to countries like Russia and China .

Canada has to do more to protect its vulnerable northern frontier.

Bannon is a convicted felon awaiting trial on charges that he duped donors to build a wall along the southern U.S. border.

He oversaw the Breitbart News website — a voice for the alt-right movement ranging from white supremacists , neo- Nazis and anti-Semites — before joining the 2016 Trump campaign.

It remains unclear whether tariffs are a tool of economic force being exerted over Canada to bend to Trump 's Arctic empire-building exercise.

The U.S. president's social media posts give a glimpse into his list of wants beyond what he’s saying out loud.

On Sunday , he said billions were being spent to “subsidize Canada ” and that “ Canada should become our cherished 51st state” But this scattershot approach is anything but improvised, says a former influential foreign policy adviser.

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