And Canada is buying gripens not f35s so the US can go pound sand.

Unfortunately, I think most of the new military spending that brings our total to the 2% of GDP target is going to American manufacturers. I get the feeling that Carney doesn't want to upset the status quo too much, despite the talk. I think he still counts on a path back to the way things were, just maybe on a longer timeline.

Yep. Go German instead imo

Canada has a lot of weapons components manufacturing.

Alas Australia still has its tounge far up that US ass. It's fucking embarrassing

Canada _couldn’t _ care less. Sorry to be pedantic, but they say opposite things.

Despite that, agreed. Canada seems to “get it” with regards to the US. If Trump and friends want to behave like adults, they come to the table. If not, they’re just going to isolate them further. Eventually the US will “American Exceptionalism” itself right into a corner all by its lonesome little self. Then all that debt will really start to hurt.

I’ve always felt there was a difference between people like McConnell and ones like the current crop of Republicans (Trump, Boebert, MTG, etc.). McConnell knew that US soft power as incredibly powerful, and that the dollar being the global reserve currency massively props up the US economy. They built this myth of “American Exceptionalism” to explain why we have it so great when it was these boring things that made that myth possible. Basically, they toed the line of selling the lie while never intending to do anything about those “government handouts” that helped perpetuate their myth.

This new breed sees the myth as dogma. They think the US is actually a gift to the world, ordained by God Himself. They don’t understand soft power, or how reserve currencies work, so they don’t understand what gutting programs like USAid actually does. They literally believe American Exceptionalism is just a fact of the world without understanding why, other than “we’re number 1.” It was always going to happen. The Republicans did this to themselves, and the country.

Its Trump... Not the usa

There’s just a pinch of truth in everything the Cheeto says 😅 the rest is pure delusional fever dream.

Canada is failing the same way every advanced economy is including the US everyone is failing their citizens 💀 not in a x is better than y kind of way just the whole world may be on one of the darkest trajectories rip

For some unhinged reason, Trump wanted to kick Canada out of the five eyes last year, so as a response we just stopped sharing information with the US, and the US just kind of Kicked themselves out.

Fixed. Fat fingers even when copying links...