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> It shocked him to realize that he now perceives the United States as a greater threat than Iran.

Weird how Europeans / Canadians / extremist Americans don’t seem to reflect on these types of sentiments, of preferring Iran and China over the US, and realize that maybe, just maybe - they are not thinking clearly. These are literally authoritarian dictatorships, while the US is a democracy that supports things like free speech and freedom of religion. These are values that are more strongly supported in America than anywhere else, and are the same types of values that the EU and Canada should be supporting.

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Perceiving as a greater threat is not the same as preferring one over the other.

It would be preferable from my European perspecitve if neither the US nor Iran needed to be perceived as a threat, but as a viable and reliable partner in a positive sum game. Alas, the US electorate decided differently.

Cause Iran is objectively less of a threat to Canada. They are threat in their region.

USA is actively trying to harm Canada and Europe. Consistently talks about annexing Canada, throws around fake accusations to make American populace cool with it.

It is teaming up with Russia which is expanding and direct threat.

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USA has crumbling democracy and failing rule of law. It's free speech is currently getting huge hits with Trump literally trying to destroy companies and individuals that dared to go against him. No country is perfect in that regard, but USA is definitely not a beacon of it anymore.

Definitely we should not support the US free speech where one can say any harmful shit and lie deliberately, but can't show tits because tits are "obscene". You can keep those values, we are fine – thanks.

And definitely an allied country with a massive military — with whom you share a lot of intelligence — that turns on you out of the whim of one single crazy guy is more of a threat than a poor long term enemy country pretty much isolated from international trade. Far more.

The US is throwing Europe and Ukraine under the bus to yet again try for a ridiculous reset with Russia and get some sort of Yalta 2.0. Just a few weeks ago your vice president came to Munich to argue that we need to work more with our fascists and embrace American style free speech and legalise the Hitler salute. No, the US really is a far bigger threat to Western civilisation than China or Iran. You have betrayed us all.

The thing is, Iran and China aren't threatening to invade bits of Europe or Canada. If you take what Trump says at all seriously, then the US is clearly more of a threat to _Europe_ than _Iran_ is.

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