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    The EU and Canada see more doors opening up to counter the idiots running the USA into the ground. The Canadians stopped purchasing US alcoholic beverages.

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        Ontario alone purchases $1B in American liquor per year. While in the big scheme of things it’s peanuts, it is $1B less in American distiller’s pockets.

        And Ontario isn’t just targeting red states in the ban.

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      Putin’s long plan is coming together magnificently. He started with just one useful idiot, expanded to the whole Republican party and a third of the U.S. population.

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      Until EU gets Central and South America as strong allies, and probably eventually Japan, this making the much closer rival stronger.

      Would be hilarious if it happened.

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      Alienate all your allies speedrun

      Jokes aside, why? There literally is no good reason to piss of people that like you and are willing to work with you

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        Destroy the economy, collapse any remaining faith in democracy, sell the nation to the highest bidder.

        It’s going to be the biggest and most destructive form of disaster capitalism we’ve ever seen, mainly because they are the very people who are engineering the disaster in the first place.

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        Trusting your question isn’t rhetorical.

        Jokes aside, the Christian Dominionists running the show want the world to burn. It’s their best case scenario, endgame or whatever. But before THAT happens, they’re meant to make God’s laws in heaven Man’s laws down here, carve their faces into a few mountains, take the last grain of profit from the earth. He with the most stuff wins because God thinks like Santa (if you have more stuff, you’re a very good boy). Don’t overthink these Good Folk. Hitler and his nazis were exactly the same flavour of Imperialist Expansionist genocidal nutbars.

        They’re evil, is why.

        Hence our current speedrun towards armegeddon. It’s why they’re all about endless expansion for the O&G and military industries. It’s why they have such a violent hate-on for that environmentalist kid, Thunberg. Hope and international co-operation for the common good are absolutely their enemy. Their World To Come requires war.

        If you think like they do, of course you want to piss off anyone willing to work with their neighbour. People getting along is bad for business.

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        It’s one of two things:

        1. Bully mentality. “Beating people up means I’m strong.”

        2. Kompromat. “Putin said I have to beat people up or he will ruin me, and I know what he has on me.”

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          What’s in it for me, personally? These countries do not directly benefit Trimp, plus one of the many things he campaigned on was isolationism. Apparentlys people fell for that

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              Maybe I assumed too much context ….

              It’s one of two three things:

              Bully mentality. “Beating people up means I’m strong.”

              Kompromat. “Putin said I have to beat people up or he will ruin me, and I know what he has on me.”

              • narcissism /instant gratification. If it doesn’t directly benefit me, now, then I don’t care
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                Oh. I mean that’s definitely a Trump Trait but I don’t think it’s relevant to a conversation about why he’s attacking his allies.

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    US citizens just now learning how quickly decades of mutual trust and diplomacy can evaporate if you unleash a sociopathic narcissist on your allies for no reason.

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      How do you think we feel? We ARE the USA.

      …and 70M+ of our own voting dipshits shot our own foot!

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      Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

      • Pierre Trudeau

      Now the elephant isn’t friendly anymore.

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    Wait until the US MIC starts to feel the effects and I am uncertain which way they will lean to protect their interests.

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    That’s OK, Canada has enough eggs on its own I think.

    If not, I guess it’s finally time to get a few chickens! We’ve been meaning to anyhow.

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      Highly recommend it! They are entertaining in addition to providing a steady stream of eggs for most of the year.

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        …a few years ago two hens from our neighbour across the road decided to visit us daily for about a month… one of them even decided our garden beside the kitchen window was a great place to lay her eggs. They both loved eating the slugs in the yard too. Double-win :)