Why Canada is screwed and why nobody cares

[Legato]

20 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

The day China achieves a critical technological advantage over the rest of world, watch out. It won’t matter where or who are you are, you will be personally affected. 

What? Digital Chinese Lanterns?

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, Legato said:

What? Digital Chinese Lanterns?

With bluetooth!

[SpankyMcFarland]

3 hours ago, Legato said:

What? Digital Chinese Lanterns?

You may need to get out more and see what is happening in the world these days. 

[Army Guy]

On 4/28/2023 at 10:43 PM, paxamericana said:

Iran seizing the oil tanker is one of the many symptom of a disinterested american power vacuum. Who rely on those transshipment of goods and material. Everyone but the american. You all should be greatful you got to grow up in a world ran by the best world police force actually. That period of hyper growth is coming to an end.

Good luck securing market access and not to mention needed raw material to sustain modern life let alone growth.

That's how geopolitic work. There is no rainbow and sunshine. Its about leverage and chest thumping. 

The 20th century economic model was based on population growth aka demographic dividend. That is no longer supported by modern trends. 

 

 

This picture speaks volumes, please note that our leader is not even in the picture, one more example of how irrelevant  Canada really is on the global stage...this was not always the case. 

[paxamericana]

On 3/28/2024 at 6:48 PM, Army Guy said:

This picture speaks volumes, please note that our leader is not even in the picture, one more example of how irrelevant  Canada really is on the global stage...this was not always the case. 

Well ever since Uncle sam defeated the soviet Canada became irrelevant. There's a potential for round two. I'll post about it in another post. Long story short it has to do with the chinese ambition in the artic. 

[Army Guy]

3 minutes ago, paxamericana said:

Well ever since Uncle sam defeated the soviet Canada became irrelevant. There's a potential for round two. I'll post about it in another post. Long story short it has to do with the chinese ambition in the artic. 

Sorry my friend, Canada as a arctic nation has already proven it can not sustain for any long periods of time artic operations...US marines do more Arctic training than we do as a Arctic nation...This has everything to do with current governments, keeping our military in its current state is what makes most not all, but most Canadians happy...like anything to do with defense of North America, the US will need to do it on it's own...

[paxamericana]

Well if defense of the artic ever became an issue, I'm sure Canada could wring out some concession from the American. Probably less tarrif on your milk in exchange of US millitary access to some of your northern ports. 

[Nationalist]

On 4/29/2024 at 5:43 PM, Army Guy said:

Sorry my friend, Canada as a arctic nation has already proven it can not sustain for any long periods of time artic operations...US marines do more Arctic training than we do as a Arctic nation...This has everything to do with current governments, keeping our military in its current state is what makes most not all, but most Canadians happy...like anything to do with defense of North America, the US will need to do it on it's own...

Which they will happily do for access to the new global shipping lane.

Cha-Ching.

[SpankyMcFarland]

Pax Americana is in very deep trouble. To have any chance whatsoever against China and authoritarianism, America needs the rest of the West but Trump has decided he doesn’t want allies. In fact, he prefers the Chinese model of cowering satellites over a rules-based international order, largely created by his own country, where his power might be checked by small countries with right on their side. It’s an extraordinary act of self-immolation. 

Edited February 14 by SpankyMcFarland

[Videospirit]

Well, The United States could probably quit all of its alliances, go isolationist for a while, and than beg NATO to let it back in after China eats asia and it realizes it can't actually ignore China anymore, and it... probably wouldn't be too late to oppose China at that point.

But it's not a very great timeline, especially since it won't actually benefit the Americans to cut off the rest of the world economically.

[BeaverFever]

On 4/28/2023 at 2:16 AM, paxamericana said:

What the wider audience should take away however is that America doesn't need the rest of the world. Its quite the opposite.

Nonsense. America is a trading nation and it foisted globalization upon the world because its businesses grew too large to satisfy themselves with domestic markets and its wealth and insatiable appetite also means it needs to import goods and resources from around the world to feed domestic demand and production. 

 

 

On 4/28/2023 at 2:16 AM, paxamericana said:

You see, without american hegemony, the old school mercantilist/imperialist/colonial competition amongst european power that dominated the pre world war 2 era would arise.

There is this little thing now called the European Union. You should look it up. 

[Barquentine]

On 4/28/2023 at 3:16 AM, paxamericana said:

America doesn't need the rest of the world.

Maybe the most naive thing I've read on any of these forums.

[Michael Hardner]

17 minutes ago, Barquentine said:

Maybe the most naive thing I've read on any of these forums.

You nailed it. 

They raised several generations of Americans who were fed jingoistic slogans instead of taught world history. 

And now you get comments like this. 

 

Does anyone realize that when these large international organizations were set up, the USA went out of their way to make sure they were at the middle of all of it? 

 

And now they're voluntarily going to give that up?

[herbie]

We don't need you Europe. We don't need you Asia. We don't need you Canada or Mexico. We don't need any of you.
All we need is our cuddly Trumpy Bear... wah wah blubber wah!

[CdnFox]

5 minutes ago, herbie said:

We don't need you Europe. We don't need you Asia. We don't need you Canada or Mexico. We don't need any of you.
All we need is our cuddly Trumpy Bear... wah wah blubber wah!

 

[eyeball]

8 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

Does anyone realize that when these large international organizations were set up, the USA went out of their way to make sure they were at the middle of all of it? 

 

And now they're voluntarily going to give that up?

Happily give it up too apparently. They're torching a level of influence they invested decades building, with both blood and treasure sometimes. Historians and economists will be kept busy for generations trying to quantify and tally up the cost of bad will being generated. They'll be suffering the consequences for decades.