In a world with so much division, it's great to see cooperation.
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Lot of ppl talking about Israel in the comments here - but I didn't see Israel mentioned in the article. Ukraine was.
Lots of ppl...
It's two people, and they share something in common. Only a specific type of person would randomly bring that up to torpedo support for this.
Canada and EU aren't mass murdering Palestinians, so I don't imagine Israel falling under the umbrella of 'like-minded countries'.
Germany is quite happy to let it happen, though.
Yes. Their government is pretty timid when it comes to being critical of Israel's human rights abuses and war crimes. I understand Germany's past, but the government can choose to do the right thing now and condemn Israel for the Palestinian genocide. Nobody will call them Nazis for it!
Canada and Israel performing in Eurovision singing contests tracks with this.
It's like the epic handshake meme, but both arms are white.
The Great White Alliance of neo-liberal centrist economies. Awaiting New Zealand and Australia to join
*white-minded countries.
It's genuinely crazy that they hadn't already done this.
I mean, better late than never, but it always catches me off guard when a country lifts up the carpet and reveals they're 60 years out of date on international trade policy.
For pragmatic reasons, in order to stay in the Americans' good graces, we had to be more lukewarm to other friendships.
Now that the Americans have yanked that rug our from under us, we are freed to find new and better friends.
I swear I read an article this morning stating the opposite and that the “alliance” was unlikely to happen.
That had to do with the undefined phrase "associate member" that had been used by von der Leyen. Many EU countries were afraid it might carry legal implications nobody was prepared for. This is just normal, specific agreements and partnerships between countries without any vague promises on what might or might not be included.
Does this mean we will be able to buy fairphones?
Wait, we can't?
Basically dependence instead of interdependence
We give them out natural resources in exchange of getting their high profit manufactured products
So what we already do with a much shittier partner that doesn’t share our values - the US. This is an improvement by all measures.
How would an 'associate member' differ from this alliance?
Your point doesn't make sense. It's not associate membership so it's worthless, and it's indistinguishable from associate membership so it's worthless? It seems like you arrived at the conclusion first and then tried to engineer a rationale behind it retroactively.
So, elbow deep, then? Someone's a happy puppet, now that they can't see the strings? Way to go, Europe.
FWIW, your constituents don't appreciate your bullshit, and never have.
Don't worry, though. No one's cutting in front of you in the guillotine queue, sweeties. 🤪
(C'mon, Canada, we're rooting for ya, eh?)
So deep, so deep put her butt to sleep...
-Ice Cube
I'm betting Ice Cube's never said "butt" ...before the Disney years, ofc.
Good for you guys. Maybe in the far future we can just have a U.
I'm stuck until you guys are taking refugees, but I'll keep trying to make it better and show up when we do.
Not much longer, it's like 4 days before Christmas

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