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Something also not touched on in the article is the HUGE number of ukrainians we have in our country, particularly in the praries. We're ranked in the top 3 for ukrianians/Ukraine heritage, below Ukraine and Russia.
I'd argue most Canadians are pretty pro-Ukraine, and the US wiffle-waffling on that as well stings deep.
I get it's 'the US' because he was voted in but it's not the US it's one fucking moron. Our country bumkins are misinformed idiots that got him to power, yes, but population centers aka well educated folks are blue and we fucking hate every minute of this shit. Hence demonstrations at all state capitols multiple times over the last 2 months. Idk I'm probably making a moot point. I just can't stand being thrown in a pile with the current administration, him winning or not, none of this is okay.
The US founding fathers foresaw such an occurrence and as such sought to make the executive branch the weakest of the three branches, needing both the legislative and judicial to be in approval before sweeping changes can be made. Unfortunately these "checks and balances" are not working because it isn't "one fucking moron", it's a whole group of them and they've infected your government to it's core, that's why it's so much worse than the corruption of, say, Nixon.
While I understand that a large number of people didn't vote to inflict this madness on themselves and the world, a larger group did, and frankly the rest of the world has been appalled that any number of red lines that should have prevented this, for example felony convictions, credible sexual assault allegations etc, were ignored. I'm afraid the feeling from the rest of the world is not just disappointment, it is anger, and America is going to see what an "America first" policy does for it, which is that it will lose soft power first then economic power then become a non super power, that is assuming it doesn't drag everyone into WW3 first.