Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs + Germany’s China Pivot, BRICS Reality, Canada’s Hedge

International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better · Feb 23, 2026 · 1h 29m · transcript

Today on International Flavor, Samuel Trapp goes deep on the Supreme Court’s Feb. 20 decision: IEEPA does NOT authorize sweeping tariffs—then he contrasts the dissent’s “tariffs-as-regulation” logic with the majority’s “that’s taxation, Congress must say it clearly” line. Next, he maps the real-world ripple effects: Germany’s pressure-driven recalibration toward China, why BRICS is simultaneously louder and still structurally limited, and how Canada is quietly de-risking U.S. unpredictability through diversification—because in finance, “risk gets hedged,” not argued with.

Plus: a cultural…