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Trudeau announces 25 per cent retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods starting Tuesday
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Our only reliable allies. Europeans and the Pacific Partners like Australia, NZ, Japan and South Korea... are all oceans away. The US has by overwhelming force, the largest navy in the world. Only China, who we don't want to dive into the arms of and become a puppet of, even remotely stands a chance.
Our allies aren't going to rush to our aid in a worst case scenario, because they can't get across the atlantic. and they're also preoccupied with more or less being de-facto at war with the Russian Federation right now. and they are still not taking it seriously that they may have to fight for real over there.
When you start doing things like you're suggesting. That is absolutely going to be seen as a hostile act by the US, and they will manufacture consent for war.
The US spent 20 years in Afghanistan and fucking lost. We're good at sinking carriers and blowing up tanks, but absolutely horrible at occupying territory.
The kind of war the US is good at is the only kind that I want it to be good at. That is: disabling other war machines.