Toupin, D.: The Manufactured Grievance: Fabricated Economic Claims, Nuclear Compact Erosion, and the Strategic Logic of Alliance Destruction

Between 2017 and 2026, the United States government under Donald Trump orchestrated and advanced a systematic campaign of factually-false economic and security claims against its NATO allies, with America's closest ally and largest foreign market—Canada—as a primary target. This paper argues that this campaign is not a product of analytical error or political bluster but that the evidence is mounting for it being the intentional execution of a coherent operation whose mechanism of harm runs thro