Episode Details

Last week the White House imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, invoking a 1930 law no president had ever used, and the Toronto Stock Exchange promptly had its best day in a month — and Jay argues the shrug is the story, not the tariff. In this episode, Jay traces that reaction back 2,500 years to a Greek alliance where every city had to choose between building its own warships or sending silver and letting Athens build the fleet, shows why almost all of them chose silver and what it cost them, and follows the same four-stage cycle through Europe's Russian gas trap to the studies now under way in European capitals asking whether their own weapons would work without America's permission. This is a look at what happens to a country that stops knowing how to build its own ships, and how to tell over the next year which allies are actually building and which ones are only announcing.

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00:00 — A 50% Tariff, and the Market Shrugged

00:53 — The Meetings Nobody Was Supposed to See

01:19 — The Pattern Behind the Headline

01:40 — 478 BC: A Choice Between Ships and Silver

03:01 — Thucydides: They Forgot How to Fight

03:26 — Naxos Tries to Leave

04:17 — From Defense Budget to Decoration Budget

05:03 — The Cycle, Stage One: Efficiency

05:28 — Stage Two: Dependency

05:52 — Stage Three: Weaponization

06:34 — Stage Four: The Exit Has an Expiry Date

07:20 — Europe's Meeting Rooms

07:48 — The Midnight Session in Brussels

08:44 — What That Agenda Item Admits

09:08 — Why "Trump Did This" Misses It

10:02 — Europe Already Ran This Cycle: Russian Gas

11:01 — Forty Percent of Europe's Pipeline Gas

12:00 — The Bill Comes Due

12:24 — Escaped the Trap, or Changed Suppliers?

13:28 — Do Europe's Weapons Work Without Permission?

14:15 — Carney's Audit and the Davos Speech

15:39 — The Peace Dividend Comes Due

16:33 — What Building Actually Looks Like

17:04 — Europe's Own 290 Satellites

17:34 — Why Leverage Depreciates

18:45 — Back to the 50% Tariff

19:41 — What the Exemptions Admit

20:54 — Canada's Own Dependency

21:49 — Can We Still Afford to Build Ships?

22:34 — Announcements Are Not Steel in the Ground

23:49 — What This Means for Commodities

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