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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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    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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    Can’t wait for the glorious clusterfuck of a CA-EU-UK-CN-JP trade aliance. Even Russia would be neutered, possibly NK too because both ultimately depend on China. If SK follows Japan, there won’t be an NK anymore. Putin’s regime will collapse as his wartime economy implodes, while EU gets it’s cheap gas back plus cheap Chinese EVs too smoothly transition.

    EU could ensure it’s own security through independence from the very nation it needed to protect it (US). This would also basically completely contain Trump too.

    Rip up the US copyright/patent laws and stimulate the economy, cut off support for US vassals like Israel, cut the US off from Five Eyes, and if they do so much as peep, no more cheap shit and we put nukes in Canada.

    Polish cavalrymen riding alongside English royal guards rattling sabers of glorious Chinese steel.

    Daily Military exercises off the coast of Taiwan, but to the south-east of Taiwan :)))

    Probably hopium though. EU itself will splinter before long.

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      Even Russia would be neutered, possibly NK too because both ultimately depend on China.

      Have you noticed that since Trump declared he’ll invade the EU, China’s foreign policy has turned a lot against Russia?

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      Not likely that CA-CN relations are ready for that. JP-CN neither, nor UK-EU.

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      Polish cavalrymen riding alongside English royal guards rattling sabers of glorious Chinese steel.

      Stationed in the rocky mountains. This is a pretty good prompt for a short story about the balkanization of the former United States

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      I love my home a lot but the EU feels more like home right now. Even before anything you said comes to fruition and I hope it does. Sadly for us were here stuck with this fascist orange turd till my countryman figure out that its too late to negotiate.

      Just a heads up, start building up your militaries fast as I have a feeling this will get a lot worse before it gets better.

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    Don’t fucking give them eggs, the ones left who care will be satiated because they got cheaper, promise fulfilled, and the fascism will accelerate.

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    I’m not going to tell people how to eat, but I will point out that if there was a time you should try plant based diets, that time is now.

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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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      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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        No joke, if you take a piece of baguette and soak it maple syrup, you will get an amazing little desert. There is probably some teachable moment there, I don’t know

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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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      From where I live I can look across the water, sighting distant shores, and declare “A mad man rules there.”