trade with everyone is all I’m saying. Including US but breaking their colonial relationship to us. Russia never made hostilities to Canada.

Limiting options over hatred, harms your/our prosperity. We need to wake up against US declaring war on us, and stop hating countries they’ve told us to hate. Independence, pursuing all options, is path to get US to beg for our friendship. Just waiting until the US gets bored abusing us, is poor strategy, and one that leads to massive concessions and extra servitude.

We don’t need Chinese EVs.

Can make cheap/good EVs in Canada with Chinese components. Threat is destruction of auto industry here.

Interprovince and EU trade is awesome, but the key for Canada is to diversify internal investment and trade away from “US National Security” control, that gives US authority to declare who Canada’s enemies are. China investment in Canada, perhaps with processing /manufacturing facilities in addition to resource extraction would be a big economic boom. Chinese and Russian trade is better than excluding them.

The big danger from US extortion is destroying Canada’s auto sector. Canada has extremely high subsidies for that sector, that should be looked at if our foreign owned domestic industry starts/threatens to back away from Canada as a result of US extortion. Importing EVs from China can enhance Canadian standards of living, but some assembly work, or just importing motors and batteries can make Canadian made vehicles competitive in US even with tariffs, and affordable in Canada.

Cowering together in the “abused wives club” of Europe and Ukraine is not the best strategy when normalized relations with countries that can stand up to the US is necessary to fend of war from US.

Economic power together is enhanced We’ve been doing this already, as two separate sovereign nations. Assholes turned it against us. You know, you read the news.

Current red states are parasitic to US as a whole. Military budget and insurance industries too. Canada’s economy is controlled as a junior partner that gives US veto over resource project funding from China or other US geopolitical foes, and embarrassing copying of tariffs on China without even consulting China. Trump BS was happening on a slower basis anyway, and a bigger Canada means better resistance to US coercion.

Canadians would be taxed like crazy to help pay that off.

The US is on a clear path to collapse, just from this debt. That is bad for Canada too, but in a way the collapse just means defaulting on debt, and banks/insurance going bankrupt. The oligarchy in US means as the country collapses, the ones who are saved are banksters, weapon makers, and tech. Secession of states, and joining Canada, can make both existing Canada and those states stronger

what would Europe need from russia?

Resources is big one, including infrastructure already in place for energy. Most of the world sides with Russia through this conflict. Even some US colonies have done well playing both sides. Russia is also an export market. World needs Russia to limit global warming. Futile attempts to destroy it, won’t work.

Russia put troops into Crimea before the referendum, and the referendum was run by the occupying army. Do you normally trust occupying armies to run referendums about whether or not they should get to keep the land they’re occupying?

97% in favour of Crimea joining Russia. Western polling was a solid 70%+. The new 2014 regime was legitimately divisive to the point that the majority ethnic Russian populations in Ukraine did not want to submit to them.

Russophobia has been the big disease, really created by US/USAID/NED/CIA. Europe seems to need a moment to let go, but if US isn’t forcing them into it, the rest of the world has already been open to Russia and China. Trump is literally forcing the world to liberate itself from US. The US is still a nice market, but China is much larger to sell into, and tariff wars are not likely to bring investments into the US.

A multipolar world makes as much obvious sense as democracy. But it is pretty remarkable that US is pushing for it now.

Current likelihood is that there’s only a mineral deal if US pays Zelensky/Ukraine to fight more. Security guarantees don’t actually cost anything until you have to do something, and its pretty likely that any weapons would be used to provoke aggression during ceasefire instead of protecting Ukraine’s neutrality.

It’s Europe that wants war more than US, and so it’s far more likely they get the mineral deal to keep going to the last Ukrainian.

Most Canadians would love the idea of states joining us. They wouldn’t even refuse solidly red states, I think. It would make Canada stronger, and a better life for the states. Economic power together is enhanced. Canada even as 10 states instead of 1, doesn’t work because US debt is too high, and US simply has too harsh of a society meant for oligarchy. Healthcare would be a major issue.

Went to Cuba last week. Absolutely magical, 3-5x the value, and the country needs the support. 95%+ Canadians, and no Americans.

I understand the “Quebec community” support/appeal, but its supporting the US too. A firm no for me.

It’s confusing times. If there was ever a movement in support of US territorial subservience, a Quebec referendum is probably more likely, and one where secession before annexation has clearer legal path. I understand their current support for Canada.

AfD (Conservatives Trump was looking for) doubled their vote, but won’t be part of government. Party with the most votes went from 23% to 28%.

Leornado DiCaprio says you got 1 more year!

The European “ultra right” parties tend to be NATO/Ukraine “skeptics”. European leaders that Trump has praised (Hungary, Turkey) were the most independent from US. Slovakia is independent without being “ultra right”. The only nations with good economic growth since Ukraine are the independent ones.

Trump/US behaviour is creating unity among the world against the US. But understand the most sycophantic colonial servitude has come from the moderate governments in Europe. Canadian political heads are all CIA agents, but there too, resistance is forced, and centrist parties have gained huge polling jumps.

The US empire’s control over allies is only possible through the subterfuge of “freely chosen love” for their masters. Rulerships defiant of NATO and EU is equivalent to defiant of US, though balkanization of Europe and wars in Europe, is much easier than the wet dream of balkanizing Russia. It is a vector for massive US weapon sales, and similar reconstruction deals as Ukraine for eventually picking a side.

The worst possible decision from EU main 3 is to choose supporting Ukraine in continued war against Russia. Suicidal, and will serve balkanization of Europe objectives. Union with world for independence (not war) from US is the right path.

Drug prohibition is awesome for governments because it means permission to bypass the laws. CIA has definitely funded operations through drugs, and have significant responsibility in crack epidemic. I’m unaware of direct links to Mexican cartels though.

. So, what happens if a Mexican politician was accepting bribes from Narcos and passing legislation favourable to them? When does that become the state sponsoring terrorism?

US has a shaddy history, and near past. Nicaragua contras (freedom fighters???) funded through Columbia/Panama cocaine. Venezuela last election meddling funding Narco gangs to burn things, and previous election, declaring legitimate president to be the main drug lord of the country.

If US declares a group in a country to be terrorists US entitles itself to bomb them, and do whatever else seems entitleable.