yeah that's a good way to put it
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Massive methane leaks detected in Antarctica, posing potential risks for global warming
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Setting aside the nonsense about Soviet tactics, this article is very revealing.
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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China-Africa Space Co-op Shows Tech’s Multipolarization, Democratization Trends
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I find the specific dynamic is that you can say anything you want as long as it doesn't translate into material action. That is the line that cannot be crossed.
not only that, but you can have all the freeze peach that you can handle
Exactly, and this is likely going to be the biggest barrier to being absorbed into the US. It would undermine very semblance of identity that Canada was cobbled around.
I think that's probably exactly what it is. He just needs to feel manly.
I very much agree.
The funny part here is that Canada doesn't really have any cultural identity aside from not being the US.
I think Trump wants to go back to more direct imperialism where the US uses hard power to keep its vassals inline instead of using soft and subtle methods. He wants a clear master/slave relationship.
Just like good old colonial days.
Will likely happen in March I expect.
They were doing some of this already, but looks like it's gonna happen on a bigger scale now. This is a good article from 2023 discussing how Russia leveraged the west pushing companies to stop business in Russia to force them to sell assets off for pennies on the dollar. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/17/world/putin-companies-economy-boycott-elites-benefit-ukraine-war.html
And this kind of tariff hits people directly so it becomes very visible how it's harming them. It's kind of funny that he didn't realize this to begin with.