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It may provoke Trump, but Canada should cancel the purchase of F-35 fighter jets from the U.S.
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this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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Every country knows the US changes faces faster than my ex girlfriend.
At this point other countries just need to deal with 4 years of this bullshit.
If Trump were to take over the government like Hitler did, which looks to be the case, only then would countries start looking at dropping the USA.
The "bullshit" might all start against in 8 years, 12 years etc... So it's not just 4 years other countries have to deal with but the lifetime of the fleets they acquired yesteryears.
Too unreliable partner to trust. End of story.
No. There's no telling what comes after these 4 years. The US has proven that they aren't an ally worth relying on, we should look to more reliable partners and building them up and vice versa. Any concession or help offered by the next administration isn't worth the paper it's written on (just look at trump ripping up his own trade agreement for this nonsense.)
We need allies not a neighbour that on a whim might try to throw us into a recession.
When the us comes crawling back we should make them pay reparations for any economic or other damages before they're welcomed back.
Exactly. With a Presidential Monarchy, no deal or treaty can be trusted past the next election (assuming they'll still have those).
More than more Trump, we are also seeing a complete abandonment of the US much vaunted system of checks and balances. You simply can't deal with them except in 4 year periods.
If you look back at the history of the US, it's been fairly reliable in it's first world alliances.
Yeah, they've pretty strongly turned from recent history though. No one in NATO believes the US could be trusted to uphold article 5 anymore. That's the whole issue.
Hell, why doesn't Ukraine have the nuclear deterrnet that it had after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Because they foolishly believed American security promises, which were given in exchange for them releasing their nukes.
Exactly. But it also shows it's more about Trump than America.
Plus we got other stuff to worry about, and playing nice with America is probably better in the long run.