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The top White House official suggested the expulsion of Canada from the five -eyed intelligence network, as Donald Trump increases the pressure on the ground talking about turning into 51.
Peter Navarro, one of the closest advisers to the US president, is pushing himself to the US to remove Canada with five eyes – which includes both the UK, Australia and New Zealand – according to people who are familiar with his efforts within the administration.
Trump said he wanted to attach to Canada and advocated that he would press 25 percent of tariff on imports from the ground when a 4-month return stretched on March 4.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who will step down from March 9, has recently been caught in an open microphone warning that Trump’s ambition to absorb the US northern neighbor was a “real thing”.
Navarro did not respond to the commenting requests. The White House did not answer the commentary request. Trudeau’s office refused to comment.
Trump stunned us allies when he made Canada the first big target for tariffs, along with Mexico, claiming that Ottawa did not do enough to prevent migrants and drugs to enter the US.
People who were familiar with the situation said that Navarro, who has an easy access to an oval office because of his close relationship with Trump, claims that now they should increase the pressure on Canada by evicting the Earth from five eyes.
It is unclear whether the idea has gained attraction with Trump, but it is discussed among its officials.
Five eyes for decades are the most important network for exchange intelligence in the world. The United States and his allies share extremely sensitive signals and human intelligence, except for coordination in surgery. IN Satellite Station with Pines under the leadership of CIA In Central Australia, which is the most important place to collect intelligence about China, is just one example of intimate intelligence.
Dennis Wilder, a former CIA officer who was the editor-in-chief of the daily intelligence briefing of the US president, said he was five eyes “by far the most successful arrangement for exchange of intelligence in world history.” He noted that the partnership appeared when the American and British codex worked together to break German secret communications during World War II, and spread to other allies in 1956.
“Any disorder in these decades would be to meet the fans of our opponents in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang,” Wilder said.
While Canada and New Zealand provide the least intelligence in the group, the expulsion of any member would cause criticism from other allies, and also from intelligence officers in Washington and beyond.
One intelligence official of five eyes said that the eviction of Canada from the net of the old decade would be very dangerous.
“Sitting where I sit and look at a series of threats that come to us, we need all the partners we can get,” the intelligence official said.
Steve Bannon, a former strategist of the White House who helped Trump to win in 2016, said Canada should have realized that Trump did not Troli Trudeau, but seriously wanted to annex the country.
He said Canada had no resources to defend, especially since China tries to become an Arctic force. But he said that every move to get Canada from five eyes would be a counterproductive move that would eventually hurt America.
“Canada strikes above their weight. If you look at military history, they were the best ally we had,” Bannon said.
Navarro served as a trade advisor at the White House in the first Trump administration. Last year, he served several months in prison for refusing to testimony to the Congress Commission, which invested an attack on January 6, 2021 on the US capitol. His trade views have long been synchronized with Trump, who sometimes calls him “my Peter”, and in December he has appointed him as senior trade and production advisers.
The Canadian security intelligence service addressed the comment.
Additional Ilya Greneff reporting in Toronto
