US citizens just now learning how quickly decades of mutual trust and diplomacy can evaporate if you unleash a sociopathic narcissist on your allies for no reason.
The EU and Canada see more doors opening up to counter the idiots running the USA into the ground. The Canadians stopped purchasing US alcoholic beverages.
Ontario alone purchases $1B in American liquor per year. While in the big scheme of things it's peanuts, it is $1B less in American distiller's pockets.
And Ontario isn't just targeting red states in the ban.
Putin's long plan is coming together magnificently. He started with just one useful idiot, expanded to the whole Republican party and a third of the U.S. population.
He's an idiot. He only thinks in terms of strong man projecting. He's entirely incapable of real thought and reflection. He knows it's right because the idea is in his head. Thinking was never a part of this.
Destroy the economy, collapse any remaining faith in democracy, sell the nation to the highest bidder.
It's going to be the biggest and most destructive form of disaster capitalism we've ever seen, mainly because they are the very people who are engineering the disaster in the first place.
Jokes aside, the Christian Dominionists running the show want the world to burn. It's their best case scenario, endgame or whatever. But before THAT happens, they're meant to make God's laws in heaven Man's laws down here, carve their faces into a few mountains, take the last grain of profit from the earth. He with the most stuff wins because God thinks like Santa (if you have more stuff, you're a very good boy). Don't overthink these Good Folk. Hitler and his nazis were exactly the same flavour of Imperialist Expansionist genocidal nutbars.
Hence our current speedrun towards armegeddon. It's why they're all about endless expansion for the O&G and military industries. It's why they have such a violent hate-on for that environmentalist kid, Thunberg. Hope and international co-operation for the common good are absolutely their enemy. Their World To Come requires war.
If you think like they do, of course you want to piss off anyone willing to work with their neighbour. People getting along is bad for business.
It's part of reshoring industry to the US. Additionally, China has built factories in Mexico in order to avoid high US tariffs. The US is decoupling its economy from China. That's a necessary first step for war against China.
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Can't wait for the glorious clusterfuck of a CA-EU-UK-CN-JP trade aliance. Even Russia would be neutered, possibly NK too because both ultimately depend on China. If SK follows Japan, there won't be an NK anymore. Putin's regime will collapse as his wartime economy implodes, while EU gets it's cheap gas back plus cheap Chinese EVs too smoothly transition.
EU could ensure it's own security through independence from the very nation it needed to protect it (US). This would also basically completely contain Trump too.
Rip up the US copyright/patent laws and stimulate the economy, cut off support for US vassals like Israel, cut the US off from Five Eyes, and if they do so much as peep, no more cheap shit and we put nukes in Canada.
Polish cavalrymen riding alongside English royal guards rattling sabers of glorious Chinese steel.
Daily Military exercises off the coast of Taiwan, but to the south-east of Taiwan :)))
Probably hopium though. EU itself will splinter before long.
I love my home a lot but the EU feels more like home right now. Even before anything you said comes to fruition and I hope it does. Sadly for us were here stuck with this fascist orange turd till my countryman figure out that its too late to negotiate.
Just a heads up, start building up your militaries fast as I have a feeling this will get a lot worse before it gets better.
No joke, if you take a piece of baguette and soak it maple syrup, you will get an amazing little desert. There is probably some teachable moment there, I don't know
..a few years ago two hens from our neighbour across the road decided to visit us daily for about a month.. one of them even decided our garden beside the kitchen window was a great place to lay her eggs. They both loved eating the slugs in the yard too. Double-win :)
I send weekly complaints to the town council about how we can't keep chickens. If people can have chickens in freaking downtown Vancouver, everyone should be able to have chickens.
I'm sorry if it's a dumb question but It's honest, Isn't canada somewhat under UK still? Wouldn't tbe US have problems with UK too if they keep pushing? Have no horse on this race, just asking coz I'm dumb
Not really. They're part of the Commonwealth, an association of former British colonial possessions, and "recognize" the British monarch as their own monarch. The monarch (King Charles, currently) has a representative in Canada known as the Governor General. They do a ton of stuff like appoint Prime Minister, heads of the Provinces, dissolving parliament, etc.
However they almost exclusively can only act when asked to by Parliament or the Prime Minister. They also do ceremonial stuff. They do have some emergency power however it's never been used in the post-independence era.
Basically no, not really. King Charles (King of Canada) could technically try and like dissolve the parliament or something but it would cause a constitutional crisis that would probably just end up removing the whole Canadian Monarchy thing.
Am Canadian, I have wondered this as well -- could we ask the UK and rest of Commonwealth to help us out if things get too bad? I hope so.. but I don't think there is any obligation to come to our defense ala NATO if things get shooty.
The Governor General actually has veto power over legislation and basically everything, with the catch being if they're too annoying about it Canada will just get rid of the monarchy.
Be careful about convention, with no explicit rules. We also haven’t usually acted this way either but now that someone challenged every moral precept we’re finding nothing enforced it
Unrelated but I always call myself dumb which "isn't that deep" but I recently realized I do feel dumb when asking questions when in fact we are the opposite of dumb since we want to expand our knowledge and we know that we don't know. Most people just stay ignorant and don't want to see themselves as not knowing everything and thus they stay dumb.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted talk and you're not dumb!