Canada

Reminds me of a Trudeau speech just before he left. He spoke to Canadians and used typical 6th grade english politicians use when adressing very large audiences. Then he adressed Trump directly, looked right into the camera and immediately switched to mono syllabic caveman speech. I swear you could even see a suppressed smirk peek through. I laughed so hard and long I couldn't hear what he actually said to him.

I watched a few interviews with Carney throughout the election to get an idea of who he is and the policies he might support. One detail that really stuck out to me is he was a goaltender when he played hockey. Canada has a big mean offensive oaf taking shots at it, and Canada elects a goalie as a response.

Little bit of trivia is that Canada shares a land border with the EU.

Would we have to start calling it Ourope?

IIRC this question was seriously asked by Carney a little while back, and we can in all but name. I don't think there will ever be a Canadian minister in the European Council but we could form trade networks that are basically the same as European nations with the caveat that there is the Atlantic ocean separating us.

The US is doing a pretty good job at that itself.

They would likely hold out a chair for us if we asked.

Can you imagine how it would be if PP had won?

Okay, 100% with you on his love for fossil fuels and military spending, but what specifically has he done to be deserving of calling him out of "authoritarian bullshit"?

Carney's reliance on fossil fuels does stick out as somewhat against his own book, Values. This is all speculation, but my theory for the reliance on fossil fuels is that it has a history of econimcally strengthening nations (at least if we ignore pollution), and has historically proven to be a valuable and desired resource globally and domestically. Given he is navigating the biggest economic shift Canada has seen in decades, fossil fuels look like a safe, but not neccesarily the right choice.

I think the border security bill was an initial attempt to placate the Orange Turd... I completely disagree with it anyway, but I am not sure it is part of what Carney would have done under different circumstances

So far I am not finding myself agreeing with Carney too much but this speech was solid and some of the deals and partnerships coming up in the news have been pretty positive (at least with the info available)... so there is hope?

Macron has been brilliant with foreign policy. A little less with domestic policy. Still he's been boldly playing 4-D chess with Putin and 1-D checkers with Trump.

The texts:

“My friend, We are totally in line on Syria. We can do great things on Iran. I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland."

“Let us try to build great things, i can set up a g7 meeting after Davos in Paris on thursday afternoon. I can invite the ukrainians, the danish, the syrians and the russians in the margins. let us have a dinner together in Paris together on thursday before you go back to the us. Emmanuel.”

The assumption is that he leaked them in response to an earlier quote from Macron:

"We do prefer respect to bullies. And we do prefer rule of law to brutality."

What the actual fuck, I had to check and:

Also NATO's sec:

Assuming this is real, is this shit commonplace or are these bootlickers outliers?