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Canada should move towards integration with Europe instead of the U.S. (www.policyalternatives.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Trump warned he will impose additional tariffs on the European Union and Canada if they band together to “do economic harm” against the United States.

Get @#$%ed, Trump. Good read. Short but detailed about how partnered we are already and what our next priorities should be

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Our ideas of Liberalism and Conservatism are very right wing compared to Europe

Sounds like you don't follow contemporary EU politics too closely, even if you've spent time there in the past.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The last time I set foot in Europe was in 2010, so it might as well have been a lifetime ago. the world as a whole of 2010 is completely alien compared to 2025

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The far right is a major power bloc over there now, and centrist parties have become openly anti-immigrant and nativist in response. Canada's way ahead of Europe on tolerance at this point. Even in 2010 Merkel, for example, was plenty fiscally conservative, while Trudeau was elected later and expanded our own spending. There's other nations that are more interventionist, but Canada wouldn't be unusual. The far right is also anti-climate action, so we wouldn't be worst in class on that, although probably below average.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    European Far Right Politics are actively being influenced by Russian disinformation and cyber operations, "Human wave attacks" of Migrants being sent through Belarus on behalf of Russia and the puppet state's governments. and a mountain of homegrown and american shit online.

    It might be Tim Pool, Elon Musk, or Jordan Peterson speaking it, but the hand controlling the Sockpuppet is usually smelling of vodka and caviar.

    edit, I went off on a tangent here, so semi off topic from hereon out.

    *The far right has resorted to sarcastically responding "RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!" anytime foreign involvement in their shit is brought up, because its a nervous defensive tic, people are either knowing, or in denial, that an overwhelming amount of public discourse and disputes in the west can be directley traced back to the Kremlin, who essentially consider themselves to be at war with the west. and this is how they fight their war, because conventionally, The Ukrainians already showed us the Russians cant fight for shit in a shooting war.... *

    Everyone laughed in 2022 and was like "holy shit, the russians dont know how to fight"... and then a depressing terrifying reality set in, "Holy shit... the russians dont know how to fight.... so if they ever do, they'll get fucking flattened, freak out, and resort to nukes..."

    It started in 2014 and people seem to have forgotten what the term Hybrid Warfare means. because it never stopped even if Real full scale mechanized warfare started in 2022

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