Hacker News Reader

Comment by epolanski | Hacker News Reader

This administration has a thing for being really vicious with the closest allies.

It really feels strange, odd, yet unsurprising that the US is going from a globalist leadership to selfish nationalism.

Its easier since they have no defenses up and lots of valuables are in reach. It makes sense if you are that ethically challenged.

Trump projects his greed and selfishness onto everyone else. So doesn't understand that there can be such a thing as a win-win relationship.

I think you are ignoring the situation of a WIN-win relationship where one party is winning much more at the other party's expense. Just because it may be net positive for both countries that doesn't mean that it's a fair arrangement. The excuse that the smaller winner is still technically winning is not a good excuse against pushing for a more fair deal.

In what way was the US not the big winner already? Canada bought all sorts of military equipment from the US, followed 99.9% of US foreign policy, produced tons of raw materials for the US economy and freely traded it for finished goods and consumables, contributed to many US wars. Canada gave US priority in pretty much every international trade and political matter and even bandwagoned onto many US laws.

Literally the only losing move was to mess with our relations to them.

That just sounds like greed. It's not enough to be winning, I need to be winning as much if not more than everyone else.

Where is Trump pushing for a "more fair" deal? State what is his metric and demonstrate it is "fair" for both sides.

Show us it isn't just lies and bad faith.

You must have been living under a rock if you didn't notice how much did the US has thrived in the globalist world, and how much did it thrive more than the rest of its allies.

> the US is going from a globalist leadership to selfish nationalism.

It’s worse than that. This doesn’t suit the US. It suits Trump (or at least, that’s what his addled mind thinks).

The US doesn’t have allies; it has interests.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com