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This is what "move fast and break things" looks like when it is applied to foreign policy. It is called imperialism.

As Mark Carney said: "if the middle powers are not in the table, they are in the menu" meaning "if the weak don't unite and resist together we'll be eaten by the strong".

OTOH, does anyone remember the "shock and awe" in the first days of Iraq War? It was pretty much like this. Soon, the orange buffoon might have a "mission accomplished" [1] moment and revert the tendency in the midterms. And then the U.S. gets even more screwed in the long run.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech

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The beautiful irony is that Carney initially went all in supporting this illegal war of aggression. It seems he tempered his language a bit since then. Perhaps his team realized how hypocritical he sounds after that whole speech on Greenland.

https://x.com/markjcarney/status/2027721462233141679?s=46

Here is the partial walk back: https://x.com/harry__faulkner/status/2028950225683894395?s=4...

i dont think he sounds hypocritical. its exactly as described by havel - the sign is in the window but nobody believes it.

being hypocritical would be not helping Spain out whos taking the sign down.

within canada though, there is a gigantic iranian diaspora and getting rid of the islamic regime brings out a ton of protesters in support.

I am not following. Is it not the definition of hypocrisy to essentially cry about how international law has always been dead, and then unflinchingly support an act in violation of international law a few weeks later?

Have you watched a Trump "speech" in the past few years? It's all incoherent rambling; he's not a unifying figure and never will be so I don't think midterm chances will suddenly go up if he gets on stage and declares victory. The things he's doing domestically are quite unpopular (e.g. killing American citizens with an immigration agency) and there hasn't been real governance -- just illegal tariffs, corrupt pardons, meme coins, attacks on free speech, and a vengeful, politicized DOJ.

Unfortunately the people who vote for him don't watch the speeches either and literally do not care that he does stupid things and generally wrecks shit because lower business taxes and he isn't a (D)

The conservative business class, since literally before Marx wrote anything, will do whatever it takes to never ever ever ever accept even a tiny reduction in their handouts. They will burn America down and destroy their own revenue before they let us collect an extra dollar in tax revenue for the betterment of society.

This war has been planned for decades. I was a boy in 2003, but I distinctly remember the threats against Iran during that time period. Time Magazine ran it on their cover...

https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20060925,00.htm...

The countries most impacted by the ONG crisis are China, India, and South Korea.

Europe largely shifted to a mix of US and Norway following the Russian-Ukraine War in 2022.

That's mostly non sequitur. Even before this war those countries knew they shouldn't trust the U.S.

Specifically, India and France know this for decades.

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