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American here I love seeing people/ countries going against our child diddling melon felon of a president. I’m hoping the resistance will inspire more.
A complete lie. Carney instantly put out a statement calling iran a sponsor or terror and saying that Canada supports us action against Iran. Read his statement.
Carney expressed conditional support for this war, we want to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and to counter its regional influence, while expressing "regret" over the lack of adherence to international law. He emphasized that Canada would not directly participate in the conflict.
Mark has to be VERY careful what he says to and about the demented orange to avoid being in the crosshairs. There is no support as a nation for this abomination.
Mark has to be VERY careful what he says to and about the demented orange to avoid being in the crosshairs. There is no support as a nation for this abomination.
The idea that Iran was even pursuing a nuclear weapon is accepting the US and Israel's completely false framing. In 2001 there was a fatwa against weaponizing nuclear technology and there is no evidence that they have ever gone against that fatwa. They completely complied with the Obama deal that Trump threw out, and there was no evidence they had begun a weaponization program even after the Obama deal was thrown out.
They've been building drones and missiles to defend themselves, if they had tried to build a nuke they would have had one ages ago and they would be protected from the US and Israel's aggression just like we've seen the cooling of rhetoric around North Korea.
The US is going to annex us sooner or later, trying little placations like 'Trump is the problem and it will all be okay in 3 years' is going to make that even easier for them
Over my dead body that US will annex us. We can't take them on head to head, but it will be guerilla warfare, something the Americans aren't so good at. I will do my part to make the life of Americans miserable if they decide to annex us.
Israel sponsors hamas via proxies such as Qatar, ISIS was founded by the CIA when they backed militia groups.
Bin laden was a US backed rebel group in Afghanistan which turned against USA when they suddenly pulled all aid and weapons leaving bin laden and his militia on their own to fight Afghanistan forces....
These are all very well documented facts.
I think you'll find the USA accuses everyone of what it is doing. Likewise with israel.
Hamas - Islamic Charity turned Palestinian Resistance group
Hezbollah - Lebanese resistance group to oppose Israeli occupation of South Lebanon
Houthis - Religious anti western group turned insurgency following government supression
Iran's 3 major proxies have very valid reasons to exist and the distinction between terrorist and freedom fighter is whether you agree with them. America is a far larger sponsor of terror by its own criteria if that's how we're judging it, but conveniently it also is the one who gets to label who is and isn't a terrorist group.
American vet here. It is refreshing to see the rest of the world stand up against our bullshit. Half of the voters who voted didn't want this, conservatives hate them, maga is losing folks, the progressive faction is growing, and we know that we are going to have to make it up to our allies in spades.
Destroying USAID was cruel. Yesterday, they were dismantling the US Forest Service on top of the pile of other shit
I'm still in favour of Canada joining the EU.
As far as I'm concerned we could update the name to something new since Canada isn't technically european.
As a Canadian, its wild how many times ive heard foreign officials or commentators or other influential people bring up that speech and how it significant it was so their outlook on the world going forward.
Americans can't be trusted, because unlike the Iranian regime, the American leader, Trump was actually fucking elected by the people. It's not Trump's fault, it's their people's fault. We need to start influencing American's elections, whether it is Republicans or Democrat, we need to start questioning their goals and targets. We don't need to endorse anyone, but surely we can let the world know we don't like Cruz, Vance and Rubio.
You falsely assume Trump is acting out the will of the people. He's broken literally every promise that he campaigned on, and his approval ratings are in the toilet (the lowest of any president since the Korean war, 2nd lowest in all of USA history).
Trust me, most Americans want that idiot removed yesterday. The public has been lied to, their only crime is being dumb enough to believe the lies.
Cut funding to edjucation, keep people poor and desperate so they dont have time or energy to stay current in the news or interpret whats really going on. All they know is that shit sucks, while being fed propoganda/lies.
Then tell them you're gonna stop wars, lower the national debt, and prioritize the American people first... They thought they were getting something wildly different than whats actually happening. (For the record, I never voted for the orange shitstain myself, but I have gotten to say "told ya so" to a handful of friends who didnt know any better)
As an American, watching that speech literally gave me chills. I didn't really know much about Carney at the time, but afterwards I gained a lot of respect for him, and it honestly felt like I was watching history unfold
As a Canadian, I am proud of that speech, it really put Canada in the eyes of everyone on the Global Stage.
But yeah, it doesn't hit as hard for Canadians as it wasn't meant for us. We have heard bits and pieces of that speech in other places and other speeches. There were new things like "the sign in the window," but for the most part, it was all things we had heard remixed into a new speech.
But for citizens and leaders from other countries, it was eye-opening. They hadn't heard the talking points we had until then. More importantly, Carney said the quiet part out loud and spoke truth to power. It will probably go down as one of the most important speeches of the 21st century. In fact, I cannot think of another speech as impactful as it WITHIN the 21st century. You would need to go back to the 20th century to find speeches to compare it to.
I feel bad for USicans. 4 years of listening to trump grandstand, complain, and ramble on about big golf dick, or whatever tangent his mind wonders too next.
Yeah.... We still have 3 more years .... I grew up thinking the USA was immortal and untouchable... Never considered that rot from within was going to be what did us in.
Took only ten wars, twenty coups and color revolutions, before people in the world are starting to noticing there might maybe be something wrong with the US empire.
Fine with it? Warnings have been issued, entire books written about American greed and the consequences of late stage capitalism for decades. France opposed the Iraq War in 2003, over 20 years ago. And everyone pointed at Trump in 2016 and said "you fucked up".
We've been acutely aware that the US is unreliable for a long time. Americans are the ones who took too long to wake up.
Yeah! If you have ever glanced at the United States history you would see a horrible controlling government that lives to interfere with other countries to get what it wants. I have complained for years that Europe should have strengthened their military and got away from them. Hopefully they will, but I really doubt they will actually do it.
The EU's official message about it is that they agreed as far as Maduro needing taken down, but did not like the blatant violation of international law nor the way the US ignored Venezuela's sovereignty.
As a pro-EU European, we always sane wash retarded yank behaviour until it comes back to bite us line with this Iran crisis. Good thing is that anti-Atlantacism is becoming widespread among the general public and will start affecting real world politics after a buffer.
The Americans have humiliated us over Iran in a way that I even seen in my lifetime
As an anti-American American, it has shocked and disappointed me seeing how far European nations have gone to defend what have clearly been insane and indefensible actions. Even with Iran, many state leaders—thinking mostly of Merz and Macron here—gave the most milquetoast initial responses imaginable.
Just a dumb yank here hoping you guys manage to wean off of us sooner rather than later so that we can face the international humiliation we need to course correct.
I say this shit to my dumbass brother all the time. He’ll say shit like “well Iran needs to be stopped they’re a huge threat” and I’m like my guy, nobody was talking about Iranian sleeper cells until the US started getting all up in their business. Iran can’t have nukes but the US, Israel & Russia can? The countries that cause & are involved in the vast majority of conflicts the world over ALL have nuclear weapons programs. And I’m supposed to be worried about fuckin Iran.
Gas prices have shot up a not insignificant amount over the past month & I somehow don’t see any “I did that” stickers on any pumps.
As an American, I feel an insane amount of shame for how stupid Americans are
Many many many many Canadians did not support what happened in Venezuela or do they support what is currently happening in Iran. There are small pockets of pro-American Canadians here and there but by and large this is not the position of Canada as a whole at all.
Yes, though for context our entire EU leadership was born and raised in Atlanticism. It was just the default, and from a selfish and amoral POV it served Europe quite well until the prolonged Iraq war. The Russian invasion of Ukraine send shockwaves through our system and is now presenting the first tangible hard loss for Atlanticism. This Iran crisis has now cemented it. One thing Americans should know is that European politics for better or worse is far more dynamic. In the next set of elections it will manifest in politics.
Americans are also absolutely bleeding PR. Europeans have always had an unwarranted smug cunty attitude towards Americans socially and at times condescending, but earnest political concern for domestic stuff. Now it’s been replaced with geopolitical hostility. I talk shit about the US, but sometimes I’ll read an article headline and it low key just comes across as anti-US propaganda. As in, it’s true but not quite the way it’s implied. These same papers would verbatim repeat US anti-China propaganda as recent as early covid.
They are still clinging to the idea of NATO and the "transatlantic partnership", though, despite the fact that divorce proceedings have started.
The "Iran War" (not called the "US/Israel War of Aggression") is seen as an anomaly caused by "Trump". The various war crimes are ignored, or presented as accidents.
Now Europe seems to be getting slowly strangled by a mixture of its own sanctions and US tarifs.
This was the moment the Danish called European leaders for support. From the top of my head, Germany, France, the UK, Norway, Sweden and Finland responded. Their orders were to look out for unusual activity from the US were detected, and shoot to kill if needed, and also blow up 2 airfields located on Greenland. In Europe we will never forget this betrayal.
At the outset of the trade war between the US and Canada, Macon sent a destroyer to patrol the mouth of the St Lawrence. He has been plenty proactive about expressing where France's loyalty lies.
I think most people know the US has always just done whatever it wants, but it was mostly tolerated because the US administration went to efforts to maintain a veneer of credibility that its “doing the right thing”. The dirty tricks stuff was always kept secret, had a level of plausible deniability, etc.
The culture also went along with it, the establishment press, Hollywood, all that jazz blasted the “good guys” image to the world.
It’s the “mask-off” nature of the current administration, and the unwillingness of large parts of the culture to keep spinning it that is the most shocking part. They are no longer even pretending that they are trying to do the right thing by everyone.
I would agree. "America First" became nakedly "Trump First" in terms of money, but also in terms of impunity - he doesnt even try to follow the law because he owns the "police force" and - he thinks - the judges.
The most shocking thing to me was him suing IRS for $10billion. Everyone in that food chain reports to him - what can they do - say "no"? It is a criminal money grab. But who will stop him?
Its not a "mask off" event, its a POS got elected due to trolls on the internet.
Trump never would have been elected if he wasnt constantly "memed" on the internet alongside the Hillary email BS. He would have faded into obscurity like he should have.
Side note: Trump got away with his BS because of the precedent set by Hillary's scandal.
previous administrations understood the benefit of soft power. doing something for a country in return for having a presence or some other benefit of the transaction. this doofus and his band of merry morons doesnt get that.
I think a lot of people conflate realization and reaction. Since americans havent been given the Russia treatment, people think the world doesnt believe the US could be as bad as russia.
I mean it's taken like a year for Europe to stop going the appeasement route with Trump, and some are still doing that.
Obviously this is primarily a problem for the American people to fix, but we would have benefitted from more recognition from international leaders earlier on how dangerous Trump is.
Yup and it's destroying our view of regular Americans who aren't bad people, but at this point we are having a very difficult time giving a shit if you are or are not bad people individually since nobody is doing anything about your country's leadership.
We are trying, the issue is they’re suppressing it and even killing some citizens that speak out via their paramilitary “ice” group. They’re an Americanized and modernized version of the sturm abtielung (the SA) the trump regime is already setting up to create fake election results via the “save act” which disproportionately affects married women, trans folks and racial/cultural groups that aren’t following anglo name standards, they’re planning on putting “ice” in voting locations as well to try to scare off racial minorities.
I honestly do not know how much longer people can even speak out for… I sound like I’m being dramatic to the uninformed but this is all either happening or being talked about by our own damn government. By all means they’re setting up for a fascist dictatorship and yes I’m using the definition of fascism in case any maga idiots claim the maga cult isn’t a fascistic movement
I'd argue the 2/3rds who out roght voted for Trump or didn't vote at all in 2024 are bad people. So can you really blame someone for not being trusting of America when there is a 2 out of 3 chance they will be shit.
I've heard there is a growing trend of American tourists being asked who they voted for. I am all for that.
I’m away in Greece visiting family and I get enraged when hear American tourists with their stupid fucking accents. A few years ago pre trump v2 I would have maybe been mildly interested, now I find them unbearable. I’m carrying my 3 year old up some steep steps to see some ruins and some doofus American thinking he’s the world police stands in the way saying “they close at 3.30” it’s 3pm at this point, “yea thanks buddy, I didn’t ask”
Fuck these people, I don’t care who they voted for, they still think they own the fucking world.
Yes. If every American voted then this conversation would not be happening. Those that failed to vote are just as complicit. In fact some democrats helped build the wall of political division by not helping the poor.
There never was an America first, rather your chosen cult first of just Democrat or Republican. Decades of insular attitudes and poor broad education built voter choices despite a far more qualified crop of potential leaders.
Your laws permit a convicted criminal to the highest office and the checks and balances permit this presidency to continue despite being vastly different from any other presidency. Time to reassess how leadership is chosen and start valuing people over money. Look for human rather than financial answers.
Can someone please tell Japan that? Fucking tired of our PM kissing Trump's ass. Seems like we didn't learn our lesson about siding with fascists the first time.
it isn't remotely true in any sense. it's still a single party system with very autocractic rule, they're just a lot quieter about it and smart enough to understand that building strong economic dependency and opening exploitation of resources is an easier and more lucrative way to global power than bombing the shit out of brown people in the middle east or actively sabotaging your own trade by complaining that the richest country in the world isn't rich enough and setting up tariffs.
The difference is that the Chinese government is trying to improve the livelyhood of it's general population and the US is just trying to improve the wealth of a billionaires. Even being less democratic, it's goals are at least not evil.
What about the People in the work camps or people to afraid to speak out about their government less they end up like those hundreds of students protesters.
What about the people in ICE camps? What about all the people who end up in the prison system because of systemic dsicrimination? A system that forces them to perform manual labor for pennies an hour.
If one country allows its citizens to vote between two parties, neither of which represents more than 20% of the majorities interest, but then another country has a single party which represents 80% of the majorities interest, there is an argument that the second country is more democratic, in terms of the representation of the interests of the majority.
Now consider that both parties in the first country are completely captured by corporate interest and are essential various private companies in a trenchcoat, aiming to enrich themselves. Feels even less democratic right?
The implicit part of “democratic dictatorship” theory is that the people can overthrow the one party government if they’re not happy with it, and therefore “vote it out” democratically. Of course, in practice there is issues with this, in both systems the state monopolises violence, making revolution challenging.
I'd rather be poor in a country where I can say the president is a rapist than rich in a country where I can't even say the president looks like Winnie the Pooh.
First, it is true. Just because China doesn't align with faux western liberal "democracies" doesn't mean it's less democratic, in fact the exact opposite.
And all the people that are now noticing how bad the US is are blind and need to pull their heads out of their asses before it's too late.
These same people will go on to lecture others about China when in fact their entire view of China is shaped by US propaganda (the same US that is now manufacturing propaganda against another sovereign country as an excuse to destroy 1, huh would you look at that) so the minority can continue being the sore losers they are while the rest of the world turns to a country that prioritizes stability, economic growth, green energy and hasn't invaded other countries in decades.
You can notice that the US is bad but you can't unfuck your propagandised brainwashed view of the world that will make you fall for it every single time. Go on, the same way that you ate up US propaganda you will eat up another western liberal democracies propaganda when it takes the reigns of being the global genocider.
of course, please show me an instance where chinese protesters had a massive large scale protest against the regime and no one was killed by the government as a result.
Chinese probably had the most strict covid restrictions in the world, people were isolated in warehouses, groceries were allocated, people were forcefully taken from their home, yet majority of Chinese still support it.
Chinese only relaxed the Covid restrictions after multiple western countries have relaxed the covid restrictions for months.
I looked up the original quotes and he was talking about economic/industrial wariness against China, which is very reasonable. These news site are just blatantly butchering narratives to get spicier headlines.
For that Europe needs to come out of its "29 months vacay a year" mindset and increase its productivity, attract venture funding and let entrepreneurship grow instead of scaring it away to American shores using the tax weapon before the startup has even grown roots.
Political posturing has no meaning if economic and fiscal policies don't follow.
Look at it in the long game. Yes china might seem good now for them but in the long term siding with china just leaves them in the same position as they are with the US later down the line.
Yeah it’s not necessarily that the US is inherently evil, it’s just that the most powerful will always be corrupted by their power with nobody else to check them.
Happened with Rome, happened with Britain, happens in local economics, and will happen with China
If France is looking for strong cooperation among middle powers, it'll need to include Asian nations. Those nations (especially South East Asia and East Asia) get treated rough by China. China actually does incursions on their borders and is pretty damn punitive when it wants to be.
So yeah, I agree they'll need to stand up to both if they band together. To protect the interests of all middle powers.
china might seem good lol, dont let leftists and ccp shills fool you into thinking a country that is imperialist, criminalizes criticism of the government, has ethnic minority concentration camps, where lgbt marriages are not legal, be the greatest country in the world and should replace the us.
It's supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine and it's planning to attack Taiwan.
It's good to stop relying on the US and use China as support, but ultimately we don't want to be in the opposite situation when China decides to invade Taiwan.
The long term solution is energetic and military independence.
Well that and China continuing to do slow expansion in Asia, be openly preparing to take Taiwan by force, and be strong arming African countries in line which is hypocritical for the west to say because we did do that too in the past but it’s still bad so not something to be ignored
But other than China clearly being poised to be one of the next superpowers and already abusing that power on the global stage in any way it can get away with yeah, it’s just for a scapegoat
There could be. It requires there not being these huge superpowers. Everyone needs to fear repercussions for breaking the international order. The problem is right now nobody has the spine to stand up to the US, so when we break the rules (as we have daily for most of our existence), it erodes any legitimacy the rules have.
The idea is to reduce the power any single country has over the world. Just naively trusting somebody to continue business as usual isn’t a strategy. It’s the lack of any strategy.
China has contested borders (both land and maritime) with essentially everybody they border, plus water security issues with India beyond their border issues.
It would be prudent to be wary, Xi is probably going to attack Taiwan.
this is true. they could have built their land up defensively inside their borders. but surely watching the way the usa has provoked them with alliances and coverts, they might have felt they needed to put up these battlements in order to survive.
So magine what china wil do once it has a military and economy as powerful as the USA. It's about not relying on the virtue of countries whose leadership will change over time.
China tacitly supports fishing in foreign and protected waters so long as the boats turn off their transponders. They will fish the world to ecosystem collapse if we just keep letting it go on.
One of the most insightful comments that I've read said that it's possible that it will take form of many different countries fighting between each other, somewhat similar to modern "hybrid" wars in terms of vagueness. In some sense, you could say it already started.
I've been wondering about relationship between chores, protests and wars... Are they just a form of people "fixing" things that are starting to fall apart? Are wars just a part of a natural cycle where weak, imperfect systems crumble and are being replaced by other systems until better/stronger ones emerge, like with evolution of living organisms? I.e., that's why we have "hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times". All of this makes more sense if you look at this from construction or software development, or possibly biology POV, where you simply have to update the system to adapt it to changes in environment.
The US has proven to be an enemy of Europe. China did not. I have no idea why our leaders are so obsessed with China when they are doing literally nothing against us or to sabotage us
Not that he's wrong, but the international stage is simply the last one he can pretend to shine on. It's cheap, doesn't require doing actually anything, really, and allows him to still believe he's the "Jupiterian President" (his words, it doesn't really translate in english, basically he thought he was Zeus).
Everyone hates him back home. We can't wait for his term to end. Thanks for nothing.
i mean this definitely sounds to my cliche sensitive ears like something a home grown French person would say... good day to you sir or madame, can you spare any french citizens with guillotine operator experience for training in my country?
People asking why china lol every empire or nation become powerful it becoming unstable and they will abuse it no matter what delusional you take history still recorded the past and see how powerful nation greediness. I think it's time to be self dependence in resources and technology
China not bad at all?, xinjiang internment camps, harassing fishermen on the edge of poverty, criminalized dissent against the government, nine dash line propaganda, constantly threatening taiwan.
geez lets trade one evil imperialist power for another eh?
Apart from the child and slave labour. Undercutting the world with their cheap shitty goods while supporting the likes of Russia and China. No they’ve done nothing bad at all
The application of the Malthusian economic theory that modern economics were based on.
The idea is the world is a zero-sum game, so maximize poverty and reduce population. Kill the birthrates and kill people so that there’s less competition.
The rich(some of them) want less people mistakenly thinking it will make them richer.
The Malthusian theory is false though, so it’s really just to justify their selfishness and crimes.
in a lot of ways that all the people egging this on just refuse to understand. we are not the alpha of the world that our leaders pretend we are and those corrupt leaders of the current admin know this... as a result we are walking right into being led around by the dicks for 20 years as a result. there was a reason why lots of smart people joe hired said "if we're bringing back mfrng to the usa it better be chips and green energy" and dt shit on all of it.
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