Like, I wonder why trump thought all these billion dollars global corporations kept bending the knee to China in the first place…

I don't expect his thinking got as far as that question.

People don't want to admit it judging by the downvotes, but there is nothing in the article that justifies the headline, and your point seems correct. If they were to pass the increased costs of importing steel and aluminum to the buyers of these military vehicles, the increase in price would hardly be noticeable. You can admit this without it meaning "I like Donald Trump."

how hard Trump’s allies have been working to expand the MAGA brand across the globe,

You can't really call it MAGA when it's outside the USA. It's just generic fascism.

It's amazing that only one person is known to be missing after that. That's some good disaster preparation.

"I've made 200 deals."

Donald Trump, April 25th 2025

Then people pointed out that's more deals than there are countries, then he started whining about how no one would make a deal with him. And now I think he made one deal with the UK, which he'll probably go back on next week.

Stories of young women being taken to Al Fayed's office circulated in the company at the time. But it was only after the billionaire's death in 2023 at the age of 94 that the full scale of his abuse of women came to light. He is alleged to have sexually assaulted hundreds of women.

The UK is good at this. Somehow it's impossible to investigate what everyone knows about a powerful person until just after they die, when the evidence suddenly turns up.

In the policies section of the page you link, there are a number of positions that are typically associated with "progressive" politics.

Certainly there's a lot of strategic voting going on. But you don't see the Liberal (centrist) seat count increasing as the NDP goes down: the gains are all with the Conservatives. If it were a matter of progressives deciding to just consolidate with Liberals, you'd expect to see the Liberal seat count go up as the smaller parties went down. To me this suggests either that some people are flipping directly from left to right or that there is a general rightwards drift, with right-wing Liberals going over to Conservatives and left-wing strategic voters filling in some of the gap they leave for the Liberals. In either case it's concerning that when the Conservatives fielded their most far-right leader so far, their share of the seats went up.

Yes, we narrowly avoided going down the Trump route this time, but I don't find this picture particularly encouraging (NDP, Green and BQ are the three most progressive parties):

Source: National Post

It's not straightforward to understand that, since this is a chart of seats not votes, and you can get weird effects with first-past-the-post and strategic voting, but it certainly looks like the electorate is moving rightwards at the expense of progressives.