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Same script, different nation - "US tells Denmark to 'calm down' over alleged Greenland influence operation" (www.bbc.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Time to join Elbows Up if you haven’t. We are calm as we can be here in Canada and still inflict pain on the USA.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Denmark used to be one of the most pro-American countries in Europe, effectively having no foreign policy of their own but just jumping after the Americans.

    It has been really pathetic to watch, but at least now their shaken out of their dumb american dream and forced to wake up. I imagine they will take some time to really put together a response as they haven't had an independent thought about foreign policy since before the war, but the damage caused here to the US is effectively that they lost one of their by far most loyal allies on the international stage, and I don't see them ever coming back.

    As for moves to boycott US products and more popular resistance I haven't seen much about it in the streets. I'm hoping it'll come.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Sounds like Canada! We woke up big time. Still room for improvement but my guess is at least 30% of Canadian are pretty much done with the USA for good. Travel is dropping, American produce in store is rotting (I have never seen US strawberries on sale that cheap!). Follow our lead haha.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Travel is dropping

    Anecdotal, but I just returned from a very pleasant Canadian vacation and the return flight was the emptiest I’ve ever seen an airport. Zero line to check my bag, zero line to go through security, zero line to go through customs. Many empty seats on the flight itself. It was eerie. I wonder how much longer Air Canada is going to offer that flight…

    Canada (Quebec City) was beautiful and charming. The people were friendly, the weather was perfect, the food was delicious, the politics were sane. Sigh. If any Canadians reading this are hiring software engineers, drop me a DM..

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yay! I am glad you had a good time here! Where was the flight going?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Texas, the state I happened to be born in. My family is all here, or I probably would have left by now. Austin, for what it’s worth. A rare blue area in a sea of MAGA.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It was the same when I left Vancouver for a meeting in the USA right as this all kicked off. US customs was empty, and they didn't challenge anything (like they used to) almost like they knew they needed tourism so didn't want to turn anyone away

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