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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      1 year ago

      Care to explain that a bit? I’m not that familiar with BRICS beyond the first paragraph of its Wiki page

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        There’s a few BRICS member and partner countries in the Western hemisphere already: Brazil, Bolivia, and Cuba. In addition to the current members, the US is pissing all over its partners in Latin America and I think we can expect even more countries to join. If the US really is declining, Canada has to think about who its partners in the Western hemisphere are going to be.

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            BRICS would want us more than EU does. EU would likely play us if their devotion to US empire/hegemony forces can sabotage any trade/membership deal. BRICS are independent of US empire sabotage, and need to break up the evil unipolarism.

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    We’re done with the US but we’re also not joining the EU, although we have great allies there.

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      You mean you are done with the US and you are not joining the EU and not all Canadians feel this way.

      A national survey conducted by Abacus Data in late February 2025, involving 1,500 Canadian adults, revealed:

      • 44% believe the Canadian government should “definitely or probably” explore joining the EU.
      • 34% are opposed to the idea.
      • 23% remain undecided.
      • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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        high level figures in the EU have repeatedly stated that while they appreciate the gesture, Canada wont ever be a member. So its best to abandon those pipe dreams. When it comes down to the details, the EU is a boys club for Western and Central Europe, they dont even treat their Eastern members as anything more than a buffer zone against the Russians,

        the EU isnt flawless either, Russia has infiltrated it with trojan horse governments like the Hungarian Fidesz party and the Slovakian SMER party, who embezzle EU funds and politically roadblock motions with their veto. Canada trying to decouple with the US just to dive into the EU is like running from a burning house into a house with a basement meth lab.

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          Russia has infiltrated it with trojan horse governments like the Hungarian Fidesz party and the Slovakian SMER party, who embezzle EU funds and politically roadblock motions with their veto

          Unfair considering CIA infiltration of rest of EU. Not gaslighting their people with Russophobia warmongering is a sane position that has created FDI and growth exceeding rest of EU, as in rest of free (non US colonized) world.

          At any rate, trade deals with EU is awesome to pursue. A political union with extreme hate groups who beg for greater US subservience to increase their hate is very dangerous for Canada to submit to. CIA control over all western democracies makes gaslighting on US resistance easy, and push comes to shove, EU would happily help destroy Canada if it gives them more US brownie points. EU faked interest in a trade deal with Ukraine in 2013, only to have US controlled (with EU puppet votes) IMF sabotage it, and assist in coup against Ukrainian president who trusted EU.

          EU is simply not reliable, even if Canadians programming aligns with their current chaos. Canada wanting it more than EU is a recipe for failure.

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        JFC. You want some people in Brussels deciding stuff for us in Canada?? Fuck no.

        I am 100% for close ties with the EU, trade and defense and travel and even work. But in terms of letting randos in Brussels decide on how we should run things for us??? No way.