Curt Matson
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An interesting difference between America and Canada, is on second languages Canadians can be expected to converse in French at least to grade 8 level. The Americans barely speak English, without slangs. English Canadians know when visiting their Quebec brothers and sisters outside of Montreal to open in French first. When in Europe, its habit for Canadians to open in the local language, out of respect. Its not a means of trying. We have been pushed to always lead with the local language then switch to English, or French. Its habitual in Canada, because of Quebec and English Canada a handshake essentially in language.
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@CharleyXRP @ShawnPetriw At the end of ww2 the usa was manufacturing 50 percent of everything produced in the wolrd. We also were fighting Japan basically alone. They controlled 1/6 of the globe at one point.
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Yeah and how did Omar Bradley do? Russia won the second world war Americans just came back in as the second bench and to help out a little bit. Omar Bradley, what are you a fucking idiot anyhow, people who quote other people obviously don't have a brain or else that have their own memorable statements
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You people are missing the point. We don't need the Americans. Carney has signed one of the largest trade deals ever in the world with the brics countries. We're diversifying trade away from Americans that will cause shortage of Canadian goods and allow us to increase our prices. Moreover, we should cut our oil deliveries United States and we should cut off all our electricity and hydro to the United States. Enough is enough
The Food Professor@FoodProfessor
"Canada is in a very weak position within CUSMA, whether we want to admit it or not. Mexico is likely to secure a deal with the U.S. first, again, leaving Canada to return to the table, make concessions it initially resisted—including granting greater access to its dairy market."
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@CharleyXRP @WadeintheYYC @FoodProfessor Lol, please let us know the dollar amount of those goods. 😆
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Transportation's really not an issue. Many countries and are doing it now are paying a premium for Canadian products. Because of our climate policy, our carbon policy and our standing in the world. They'd rather do business with a safe, reliable country than the Americans who at the drop of a hat will unilaterally change trade deals, trade negotiations and they don't follow any contract that they've written or agreed to
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@IanJaeger29 Europe is working against the interest of America. So fair game.
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@ArmchairAdml We should give you zero security. Why should the American tax payer supplement your military when you haven't lived upto your 2 percent for nato.
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Once again evidence that we cannot rely on America for our security.
I’m not saying we can’t work with them, or buy some of their military equipment, but we CANNOT rely on them the way we have.
Insider Paper@TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: | US confirms its neutrality on Falklands after reported Pentagon memo: official — AFP
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@Canada4Europe @Docsdaddy1 @TheTrut04639288 Lol, totally destroyed their capabilities, half way around the world. With 8 percent of our military. The logistics of just having to cross the border would be a very bad couple of hours for canada.
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@Docsdaddy1 @TheTrut04639288 You can’t even win in Iran tough guy 🤣
Instead of talking tough on the internet you should go research the military analysis about how destabilizing Canada will be the end of the US and shut the fuck up
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@Canada4Europe @TheTrut04639288 Pretty sure poisoning downstream water would end canada as a nation.
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America is the only country with buying power.
Real power comes from supplier power. America doesn’t have the potash, America doesn’t have the rare earth minerals, they don’t have the fresh water for the future water wars. We are positioned in such a way that if we wanted, we could poison their downflow water supply.
People underestimate our power because the weak premier won’t let us ban potash exports and give the yanks a little famine
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@Tablesalt13 I love this, I dont want a deal with canada. So keep talking.
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@Tazerface16 @Apok____ @michikoconuts Wow, you are so smart, It seems like you know everything, please tell us more.
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@Apok____ @michikoconuts Sure.
Shitty little banks should go under.
Spirit handles less than 1% of domestic traffic, has gone bankrupt multiple times, and is literally considered the worst airline in the country.
What is worth saving, dumbfuck?
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@PramilaJayapal Lets tax all positions 100 percent over their base pay. They steal billions every year.
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Trump is wise to have extended the ceasefire indefinitely. Bombing Iran isn’t going to extract more concessions.
But neither will the U.S. blockade.
It’s a game of Chicken in the Strait of Hormuz, and everyone knows who will back down first: Trump, if he has any sense left.
That’s *not* because of his history of TACOs but because of the structure of the situation between the U.S. and Iran. Any rational U.S. president would and should back down to reopen Hormuz. If anything,Trump may be *less* willing to fold because he’s so sensitive about his reputation.
But staying in an unwinnable fight just to save face isn’t strength — it’s weakness.
The structure of the situation favors Iran, not the U.S., because Iran has so much less to lose by keeping Hormuz closed.
The U.S. and the rest of the world have everything to lose, because an indefinite Hormuz closure will eventually trigger a global economic meltdown. According to many industry sources, we might already be over the precipice of irreversible economic harm.
Forget the midterms — the potential economic consequences swamp that in importance. It could ruin more than Trump’s presidency or legacy — it could ruin the U.S. economy in balance-of-power-shifting ways, given how much more oil intensive U.S. economic output is compared to peers like China.
For Iran, a prolonged blockade will sting, but exorbitant oil prices will make it easier to export oil overland, through smuggling and other channels. In 2024, over $1 billion dollars worth of Iranian oil was smuggled over the border to Pakistan. High prices + existential political stakes for Iran will open up all sorts of adaptations for selling Iranian oil to the highest bidder.
But even if the U.S. blockade stopped all Iranian oil sales, Iran will not collapse. It is fighting for its sovereignty as a country — and the U.S. war has only strengthened its regime. Iran doesn’t need massive oil revenues to continue resisting and menacing Hormuz. Just look at how the Houthis have outlasted withering U.S. bombing campaigns for years, despite possessing the resource base of Yemen, an impoverished county over which they haven’t even consolidated full control.
Iran is used to privation. It is used to economic shocks. It has endured them for years under the force of U.S. sanctions, and its more motivated to resist than ever.
So Trump’s blockade is a losing fight. The only question is how long will it take Trump to realize he needs to scale back his maximalist negotiating demands, and how much economic suffering will we all endure until he accepts reality?
@defpriorities
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@swd2 No, ngo's could have pocketed billions, in the name of hungry children. Fixed it for you.
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@WithoutHistory Moving drugs to our children should be considered a act of war and delta with as such.
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BREAKING NEWS: 🇨🇴 President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro:
"If the United States does not rethink their policy toward Latin America, there will be a rebellion. You cannot continue to believe that the security of one nation rests on the hunger of neighboring nations. You have designed a policy that consists of extracting our wealth, blocking our economies, and dictating how we must live, while we bear the deaths of a drug conflict that you have already lost in your own streets."

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@jmbprime You have to hold elections, in order to be a democracy.
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