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It’s a board that’s been around for 80 years. Was very active and crucial in past ww wars. If the US wants to act childish and petty 🇨🇦could literally care less. Our news coverage of this yesterday said just that, from high ranking military leaders.
Canada _couldn’t _ care less. Sorry to be pedantic, but they say opposite things.
Despite that, agreed. Canada seems to “get it” with regards to the US. If Trump and friends want to behave like adults, they come to the table. If not, they’re just going to isolate them further. Eventually the US will “American Exceptionalism” itself right into a corner all by its lonesome little self. Then all that debt will really start to hurt.
I’ve always felt there was a difference between people like McConnell and ones like the current crop of Republicans (Trump, Boebert, MTG, etc.). McConnell knew that US soft power as incredibly powerful, and that the dollar being the global reserve currency massively props up the US economy. They built this myth of “American Exceptionalism” to explain why we have it so great when it was these boring things that made that myth possible. Basically, they toed the line of selling the lie while never intending to do anything about those “government handouts” that helped perpetuate their myth.
This new breed sees the myth as dogma. They think the US is actually a gift to the world, ordained by God Himself. They don’t understand soft power, or how reserve currencies work, so they don’t understand what gutting programs like USAid actually does. They literally believe American Exceptionalism is just a fact of the world without understanding why, other than “we’re number 1.” It was always going to happen. The Republicans did this to themselves, and the country.
Well our politicans are performing like they “care” as they should but Canadians are fucking DONE with the US. And it’s permanent and generational.
And I hope the world moves away from the US dollar as the petrodollar.
The sooner the world cuts contact with the Untied States and puts it in a corner until it behaves, the better