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.
BC just stopped purchasing alcohol from Red states which is hilarious
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.
How long before the US pulls out of Five Eyes and we stop sharing intelligence with our closest allies?
Would you trust any US itelligence atm?
"alies"
Putin is celebrating
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.
Until EU gets Central and South America as strong allies, and probably eventually Japan, this making the much closer rival stronger.
Would be hilarious if it happened.
Don’t fucking give them eggs, the ones left who care will be satiated because they got cheaper, promise fulfilled, and the fascism will accelerate.
They offering eggs to Canada.
What? Did you think anybody bothers to talk with the US right now?
Take us in. We have maple syrup.
Come join us! We have wine and baguettes, I'm sure we can make it work.
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
Yes. Please. Please sir... an egg....
It was great to be so close to USA on the map, until it wasn't.
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.
Now the elephant isn't friendly anymore.
I'm not going to tell people how to eat, but I will point out that if there was a time you should try plant based diets, that time is now.
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.
This is pretty optimistic.
Even Russia would be neutered, possibly NK too because both ultimately depend on China.
Have you noticed that since Trump declared he'll invade the EU, China's foreign policy has turned a lot against Russia?
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.
Not likely that CA-CN relations are ready for that. JP-CN neither, nor UK-EU.
Polish cavalrymen riding alongside English royal guards rattling sabers of glorious Chinese steel.
Stationed in the rocky mountains. This is a pretty good prompt for a short story about the balkanization of the former United States
He's gonna come for Europe next, just watch abd see
Alienate all your allies speedrun
Jokes aside, why? There literally is no good reason to piss of people that like you and are willing to work with you
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.
Again, that is the thing I don't understand. They are already filthy rich. Why crash and burn everything? Wouldn't it be better to just continue making boatloads of money?
I see you don't understand. They always need MORE.
They are already getting more. They want more more.
"They want more!"
"But, they're already making more money...what's the point?"
"Who said anything about money..."
They have first boatloads of money, yes, but what about second boatloads of money?
Trusting your question isn't rhetorical.
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 furthers Putins goals.
Destruction. That's why.
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
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!
It's the other side of Dunning-Kruger... You have to be smart enough to know that you're not smart enough to know everything.
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.
But they are strong allies.
Look at this lottery winner out here passing out eggs.
That's OK, Canada has enough eggs on its own I think.
If not, I guess it's finally time to get a few chickens! We've been meaning to anyhow.
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