It’s a geopolitical love triangle performed entirely in denial
A continental system built for 1994 shuffles through 2026 like an undead bureaucracy
North America once ran on a simple, almost pastoral logic: the US wanted cheap imports, Canada wanted stable access, Mexico wanted manufacturing growth, and China wasn’t yet the global factory. It was a tidy little arrangement, the kind of thing you could sketch on a napkin at a trilateral luncheon without anyone breaking into a sweat.
That world is not changing or evolving, and is not under stress. It is gone — like a Sumerian moon calendar buried under three empires and a sandstorm.
