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“… You’d think that would break a division. Instead, by August, the commander of the First Canadian Army, General Crerar, had to issue a formal order telling his men to stop taking revenge on German prisoners. You don’t write that order for troops who need encouragement… there’s no doubt that we did this, and they did. The difference was that the SS did it cold, hours after the battle, with a pistol. Canadians did it hot, in the fight, and then kept coming. The Hitlerjugend was the most fanatical formation Hitler had in the West, and the Canadians ground it into the mud between Caen and Falaise anyway.

That’s who Trump just decided to tariff. A country that answered the worst Hitler could send with a division that had to be ordered to show mercy, and then liberated Holland on the way home, feeding starving Dutch kids out of their own rations. The Dutch still send us tulips every spring. Both things are true. Both things are us.”