Once all that water has been impounded behind the dams, it is subject to NAFTA treatment (including in the rewritten USMCA agreement) as a tradable “good” or commodity. Chrystia Freeland and the negotiators for the USMCA did not secure an explicit exemption for water under the goods, services, and investment provisions of the deal.
One of the major factors that propelled the US to its overwhelming economic supremacy after WWII was the final destruction of the British Empire. WWI caused Britain to lose about 40% of its former Empire, and WWII completed this task...
Lagarde was found "guilty" without the enforcement of a one year prison sentence. She was accused of "negligence" rather than "complicity" in a multimillion euro fraud. She was rewarded rather than penalized.
If the Donald Trump problem were only a domestic U.S. problem, hope would be that the US legal system would be able to manage it. However, the man not only professes to be above American laws, he also talks and acts as if there were no international law.
