'Dangerous politics': Trump suspends joint defence board with Canada

[Another Jackalope]

7. According to Dean Blundell. the board is essentially moribund.

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/america-pauses-a-joint-canadaus-defence

Here’s the part the headlines bury. The PJBD is supposed to meet at least once a year. The last published readout of a meeting was November 2024 — meaning the board hasn’t actually convened since Trump came back to the White House in January 2025.

So Colby is “pausing” a body that wasn’t running. He’s revoking participation in a forum he wasn’t participating in. He’s threatening to stop doing a thing he already wasn’t doing to a country that already “paused” the ENTIRE Military relationship with the Trump Regime

This is the diplomatic equivalent of breaking up with someone you’ve been ghosting for 17 months.

And what does the PJBD actually do? It’s an advisory body. It makes recommendations. It doesn’t command troops, doesn’t run NORAD, doesn’t move money, doesn’t fly a single aircraft. It’s a room where senior officials discuss continental defence and draft policy memos.