Our fight, it is no exaggeration to say, is the civilized world’s fight. It is a fight for reason and comity in the affairs of nations, against an administration whose worldview, and behaviour, is increasingly that of an aggressive dictatorship, in all its crudeness and its thuggery.
Mr. Trump, as the Prime Minister has said, aims to “break us,” a phrase with historic echoes. He has to now, or others will follow our lead. If he succeeds, then the world will be governed by nothing but force in the end, in trade as in other matters. But if we prevail, then “broad and sunlit uplands” must surely await.
I am locking this because it id basically off topic and the endless brickering between Canadians and Usonians here in the comments is BS.
I wish European politicians would finally find their balls and stop kissing Trump’s boot every time he uses it to kick the continent, and instead follow Canada’s lead.
Meloni was the worst. She learned nothing from Mussolini’s mistake with the Nazis.
Von der Leyen, Kallas, Merz—the list of spineless leaders goes on. Even Macron and Sánchez just talk the talk, but when it comes to action, they don’t step up either. None of them seem to get that the era of the U.S. as allies is over.
All that was led by Von Der Leyen. He actually contracted psychologists and had EU convinced that if they just stroked Trump’s ego, Trump would reward Europe. This was the advice from some shit university psychologist (pick any one, they are all full of shit). All that did we make Europe seem submissive to Trump and so he went harder. The same thing happened in Canada. Carney decimated Canadian environmental polices, got rid of the digital tax and the carbon levy to align with Trump’s administration, then Trump pushed harder when he realized Canada could be dominated.
Kissing Trump’s ass accomplishes nothing, it was counter-productive. Japan will learn the hard way.
Sánchez told trump to fuck off from Spanish airspace at least. That was a good start. France, Spain and Germany are also in the process to migrate away from US IT service dependence, which is another step in the right direction. More is urgently needed to un-vassalize the economies and the militaries.
Contrast this with how other countries have responded to American threats. Japan, which relies on the U.S. for 3 per cent of its GDP, nevertheless agreed to a 15-per-cent baseline U.S. tariff – down from the 25-per-cent tariff it was facing otherwise – while committing to invest US$550-billion in the U.S., increase purchases of U.S. energy and agricultural products, and provide greater access for American cars.
The European Union, with an exposure to the U.S. similar to Japan’s and an economy two-thirds the size of the U.S.’s, likewise buckled, making a long list of concessions – no tariffs on U.S. industrial goods, wider access for U.S. agricultural products, and increased purchases of U.S. energy, AI chips, and defence equipment, in addition to US$600-billion in investment – “in return for” agreeing to U.S. tariffs of 15 per cent.
Been watching in dismay as this unfolded. Blatant betrayal of people’s interests. I expected quite a bit more from the EU especially. I expected more than from our gov given how much more exposed and infiltrated we are.
Yeah, it hurts seeing how they buckle down to Trump… spineless bastards.
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Japan is working hard to build more connections with other countries including Canada for trade but it’s really hard for our government to disobey the “master” that is the USA for now. Like you said, our economy is highly dependent on them and so is our national security. As an Okinawan-Canadian, I could never fully trust the USA but the mainlanders just don’t seem to give a shit.
Their military presence on the island where I live scares the shit out of me. What if Diaper Hitler just suddenly said, “fuck it Okinawa is ours now,” and take over??
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What bullshit they did nothing and well do nothing. Just like last time Canada took a stand against a country.
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To paraphrase Clarence Boddicker in Robocop: " Guns, guns, guns!"
The US has them and the cannon fodder to wield them, while Japan is saddled with a constitution that prevents military ramp-up, while Europe has been sleeping under the umbrella.
And I am not in favour in any way of nuclear escalation not military arming.
But these are the most obvious causes one can point at.
I would love to see Canada being a part of the EEA and schengen. I don’t know that it will happen, but more integration with Europe and less with the US would be good.
In particular as a Canadian, I would love to see membership in a mutual defense clause with the EU specifically, outside of NATO.
As long as we (europe) tolerating Trumps stupid tarrifs and invest even more in the US and letting them sell their bullshit products here, they are better without europe.
as an european, this is the moment we should form some kind of free trade relationship with canada.
Canada and EU has CETA. It’s been active but the deal still needs final approval from national parliaments in 10 out of 27 EU member states. These countries need to get their thumbs out of their asses. If Europe wants to deal with US aggression, they need to stop the glacial movement of their governments.
I’ve heard enough. Finalize CETA, replace Israel with Canada in Eurovision, and put Canada on the path to EU membership (even as a joke, just to really take the piss out of Trump).
Europe, the UK, Asia, Africa and the rest of the planet need to just stop easing the USA with their destructive actions that affect Americans and the rest of the world.
Come on Canada, PLEASE kick his orange ass and show the world what a stupid sack of shit he is.
Happy to see Carney make the right call. I worry that we will need to invest in missile defense systems soon…
That would be stupid. Look at the size of the border. If we are going to drain society buying war toys we would end up like the USA.
That’s fair, I’m not in favour of military equipment, only scared. If Ukraine hadn’t had missile defense systems they would be ashes by now and I worry about that happening here. Do you have a better suggestion?
A good portion of Ukraine is ashes and Zelenskyy is now sucking up to Elon Musk.
War and “defense” never accomplishes anything. USA only cares about money so a coalition of countries to counter US tariffs will accomplish more than killing other people’s kids.
I generally am of the same inclination on this but I don’t have a good answer to what do we do if they are about to start bombing. Have a nuke deterrent?
no way the US would allow a nuke in Canada.
That’s what Iran war is all about.
Oh agreed completely, I was rather asking what’s your thought process (hypothetical or otherwise) in that context if you’ve had any.
Ah, they’re in Seoul in the pic in the article. I was wondering why he had an earpiece in, and if maybe Carney was speaking only French as a fuck you.
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