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The outcome of the U.S. midterms may not relieve U.S.-Canada tensions (www.ctvnews.ca)
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“What Canadians have learned in the last few years is we don’t trust Americans to correct course when they can in terms of the presidency,” Lebo said.

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[–] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why would it? If someone threatens your family, threatens to take your house, threatens to attack you, tries to hurt your finances.. and then what.. puts some restraint on it for now because some family came over for the holidays.. why would that change anything? Once you’ve shown you’re capable of that behavior, it can always return. At that point you need treaties, shows of good faith, mutual goals and checks, you have to have the leaders marry their children off together or something.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 days ago*

    I thought it was an interesting article because of the intense reaction I've seen to the ratchet meme and others around that concept by people in the USA.

    I guess I thought that maybe my (non mainstream) political views made it seem pretty obvious and not exactly a hot take, and I shouldn't expect it to be a wildly held view. This article made me consider that I am probably influenced by being someone outside the USA, and what I have observed in terms of the changes to foreign policy over my decades of existence.

    Maybe it makes a massive difference internally, but it feels extremely surface level externally, i.e. the leader being polite and well spoken vs bumbling.

    Eta: Happy Halloween (I assume your user name is meant to be spooky)

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