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Canada sounds like they’re currently trying to stoke an alliance with China, and the Europeans refuse to invest any money defense, they just keep trying to guilt us into paying for it. Not only that, but their immigration policies have massively destabilized their own countries.
We need strong partners. Denmark and Canada, at this point, aren’t. Canada just struck a deal to buy a bunch of shirty Saab fighter jets instead of massively superior F35s as a way of trying to spite us, the people paying for their defense.
Why would Canada be trying to spite the US? Did something happen?
Any problems you have with Canada right now are the result of a one sided failure of American diplomacy. MAGAS like to describe these countries as cucked, but honestly, how cucked would you have to be to buy fighter jets from a country that's threatening to annex you?
What you have to understand about Canada is that we are (the dumbest of) the liberal stereotypes, on average. We pride ourselves on not doing what the US does, even if it’s insanely destructive.
The US requires people to pay for healthcare? Well, we’ll forbid that (unlike European nations which usually offer both a public and private option, we only offer public - as such, we have serious brain drain to the US and wait times that exceed years).
The US is anti immigration? Well, we’ll bring in more immigrants (as an absolute number) than them, even though our population is approximately 10% of theirs.
We elected Carney on a campaign of “elbows up” against the US - despite his party basically ruining our economy over the last 10 years, we decided that rather than appease the giant superpower next to us and the source of most of our trade, we’d rather be prickly about it and make everything worse. Because we hate Trump.
Hell, go to /r/Canada on Reddit and look at any thread about immigration - you’ll see lots of people talking about how badly we need to remove people who overstay their visas, but we can’t do ICE because it’s facist.
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How cucked (or blinded by greed) you have to be to sell weapons to country you intend to forcibly annex? Do you recall Russia selling armaments to Ukraine (after 2014)?
I presume one difference is that the US can disable their weapons, at least F-35s, remotely. So that's not cucking.
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EU defense spending has been growing for 11 years and is now at least at 20 year highs.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/defence-numbers/
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Donald Trump is an impulsive bully. He thinks grabbing territory is a big-dick move and is thug-brained enough to not grasp the diplomatic consequences. All this talk about polar competition is clumsy rationalization.
(Or, if we want to go fully tinfoil, "I'm going to invade Greenland jk unless..." is a preferable headline to "I'm a pedophile.")
I wonder if the United States government did anything in the past year that might be construed as hostile towards Canada or otherwise make them doubt the integrity of the relationship?
And it's not as if the US isn't engaged in its own schizophrenic courtship with China.
What problem is being solved by antagonizing them? Canada, in particular, could be totally, absolutely useless and the US would still need their cooperation in the arctic. I know people here love the idea that it's all 4d chess to troll US allies into rearmament, but it's not. It's never 4d chess.
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Yeah, sounds. What's actually happening behind those doors is "oh shit, please we're sorry about our stupid Boomer electorate for fucking up the country, don't go", in a way that simply isn't symmetric for the US (since the Boomers are more likely to support Trump). A lot of the teeth-gnashing about Trump is because the elites in those countries know that, and having the populace angry means they can blame Trump for their own cascade of failures to reinvest in their own countries (and hence, youth) over the last 20 years. Not that Trump makes himself hard to blame, but I digress.
Hence why the only people who want to muster a workable defense against the US are the Boomers in those countries. It's hard to prosecute a war with septuagenarian soliders.
That's also why the Canadians haven't bought the F-35 yet, of course. How long's it been now, 20 years? Dead pilots only cost a few million. Strange, I wonder why nobody wants to join the Air Force now that we've decided we need one? (confused_travolta.gif)
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