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You can only hope that Canada (and Europe) will do more than just being mad at the US. From what I hear from Canadians, Canada is in a very bad spot with high c
by vjvjvjvjghv 6mo ago
You can only hope that Canada (and Europe) will do more than just being mad at the US. From what I hear from Canadians, Canada is in a very bad spot with high cost of living but salaries that aren't enough to afford that. Complaining about the americans isn't going to solve that. Same for Europe. Stop focusing on Trump and start standing on your own feet.
- frm88 6mo agoStop focusing on Trump and start standing on your own feet. I agree with this, but these are frankly hard things to do when Trumps war is bound to cause a worldwide recession.
- pllbnk 6mo agoIt's naive to think that huge geopolitical shifts could happen in otherwise stable democracies in a couple years, short of some cataclysmic event. So far no such event happened and everybody understands that the USA hasn't fallen, that Trump is a more or less temporary disaster. But thinking in terms of decades makes things much more unpredictable but the general direction rather clear. Before Trump, voters from many European countries, while understanding the shortcomings of EU, were welcoming pro-American policies with open arms. Starting recently (take Hungary for example) and likely for many years in the future any kind of dependency from the USA will be viewed suspiciously. European (and Canadian, though their geography is arguably a little less forgiving) voters also know that looking East is also not an option, neither South, so they will likely keep turning inwards, with the USA having less and less influence.