Absolutely he has already done that. And I just saw a new speech he held for Canadians about the government plans for 1926, and there was a lot of things to help the average Canadians economy. It seems like a very active and qualified government that is actually working for the people.
Yes in the speech he mention that Canada has made 20 international deals on trade and/or security.
For instance Canada has made both a trade deal with EU, but Canada has also joined the EU SAFE partnership. Which is about development and appropriation of military equipment. Designed to speed up defense independence of USA.
But 20 such agreements in a year is insane, because usually such agreements take many years to negotiate. And although some had been negotiated for years already, it is no coincidence that they all suddenly fall in place within a year of Trump taking the presidency of USA.
Absolutely Trump is the reason other countries don’t trust the American economy anymore, I’m from Denmark and we have already had Pension funds selling off American assets.
The point was that despite USA being the bigger economy, and threatening Canada almost constantly for the entirety of 2025, it’s very well done of the Canadian government and people to withstand that pressure, and not just being able to stabilize the economy against it, but to even grow the economy at a reasonable rate, AND at the same time keeping the Canadian dollar strong.
But yes I think for many Greenland was the last straw for many, he simply went too far when he threatened to invade Greenland claiming nobody can stop him.
The Greenland situation may also have been a factor in why Mark Carney made the speech he did. As USA invading Greenland would obviously destroy NATO, and some claim it’s already destroyed by the mere threat by USA to invade a trustworthy unprovoking long term NATO ally completely without a shadow of a valid reason.
Awesome, I’ve seen bloggers warn that the amazing speech held by Mark Carney at Davos put the Canadian economy at risk, because it angered Trump.
But he was 100% right, and the invitation that Canada is the international reliable partner, looks a lot like when Ursula von der Leyen declared EU open for business, has probably hit home internationally way better than Trumps threats of taxing Canadian goods 100% as punishment for making a deal with China.
It’s absolutely amazing that Canada is able to hold their own against USA, and not be harmed much by it, while the American economy seems on the brink of tanking, and already has lower employment rates/job creation than before Trump became President.
Actually at 100% humidity the highest survivable temperature for a human is 35 C° wet bulb temperature.
But that is with everything else being perfect, being healthy, in the shade, and perfectly hydrated, and zero physical activity.
A more realistic maximum survivable wet bulb temperature is closer to 30 C°. But 35 C° is the absolute maximum, where above that everybody dies.
and fucking invest into not needing to use American-controlled CPUs as every single one of them contains a backdoor.
China has been working intensely for at least 2 decades to catch up, and they are still about a decade behind!
Netherlands has ASML which is a huge advantage for European independent manufacturing, but even with that it’s an insanely expensive investment to make a realistic competitor to AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom etc. because they have loads of patents that are hard to avoid, and they have decades of know how. This is not even accounting for the software infra structure that would have to be built almost from scratch.
Chip production is a global enterprise, and even USA isn’t independent anymore. They depend on ASML and TSMC for their most popular products in AI, Smartphones, servers, laptops and desktops. And more and more Arm is taking over from Intel/AMD.
What we may be able to do would be using Arm and have TSMC help us with manufacturing. But to make such a project succeed is not an easy thing, we had European computer companies in the 70’s and 80’s that were heavily subsidized by governments that dominated home markets for several European countries, and they essentially all failed against international competition.
So what we risk if we were required to use a European product funded by EU/European governments would be to have to use an overpriced under-performing technology, that would be a millstone around the neck of all of Europe, making Europe not catch up, but instead fall further behind.
consoles blow a fuse with each new patch so you can’t load older patches.
Admittedly I was unaware of this, but for consoles it can have a real functional purpose as part of the protection against cheating.
That’s part of how shitty the consumer protection really is.
But common for all, there needs to be complaints before the law is involved.
So are console sold with the possibility of changing the OS, only to have that option removed later? There was some issue with PS3, but apart from that I never heard about it.
If true, this is sabotage of the customers product, and must 100% be illegal in almost any country!!
But my guess is they are limiting this to countries that have absolute shit consumer protection.
Insanely skewed and editorialized headline!!
How is China importing from Africa at no tariffs preventing Africa from exporting to China?
To reduce imbalances in Sino-African trade, China has removed tariffs in recent years on 98% of products imported from 21 African countries,
And you even quote this yourself:
Ultimately, the onus is on African governments to turn trade openness into an engine for industrial growth
Maybe such agreements are easier to make between EU and India now that UK is no-longer a member of EU?
India still has a significant grudge against UK from colonial times. Despite EU and UK has abandoned the colonial tendencies, and now work for a world based on international law.
I get so sad every time I see India side with Russia and China claiming they are not colonial powers, and they respect the independence of India, despite India has a territorial dispute with China! But they claim siding with Russia is better because India needs independence.
Although Europe and UK absolutely fully respect and even to some degree help protect the independence of India. USA on the other hand has now become a complete wild card, impossible to know which side they choose, because the administration is so corrupt they choose decidedly and openly to act against US interests to line their own pockets.
It’s not just Trump that cedes the global economic leadership of USA, it’s the American population, they did that when they voted MAGA in 2016, and they put the final nail in the coffin when they reelected Trump in 2024.
The MAGA ideology was always disrespect for allies and partners. Tearing up all sorts of agreements including trade agreements and regarding security where Trump already during his first time used rhetoric about how NATO was obsolete. And a constant messaging on how the world needs USA more than USA needs the world.
So Americans chose to pull away and cede leadership both economic and and on defense.
This ideology has permeated the GOP since Bush the older became President, heck it had already started with Reagan.
This is not an isolated problem that suddenly happened January last year. This is a trend that USA has taken as a people for many decades.
Of course there are both good and smart people in USA, and they are not the ones that are driving the destructive mentality of the people as a whole. But unfortunately the stupid and malignant people of USA have taken over. And they have done that repeatedly, electing worse and worse candidates. Now to a point where a lot of the damage they are doing is irreversible.
and deserve death
What? I never said any such thing. But yes of course Russia has been the enemy of EU for a long time, even before invading Ukraine, because they’ve manipulated European politics, something friendly states simply don’t do. Incidentally USA has done the same several times since Trump became President.
Obviously Russia is an enemy since they’ve invaded a peaceful European democracy.
And now USA is threatening the same, threatening to invade Greenland, despite they’ve been allies with Denmark for 85 years. And Denmark has been among the most faithful allies to USA.
But no I am not calling for the death of either all Americans or all Russians, that is hyperbole that is happening in your mind.
Most likely if USA invades Greenland there will be very little to no military response. The response will be very strong economically though, and the threat alone has already almost completely destroyed the NATO alliance. USA is a bigger enemy now than China! Think about it! We trust USA less than we trust China now!
How do you think that will influence support for USA in the future?
But using Russia as a comparative example is pretty spot on, because USA is behaving like Russia now.
It’s not hate, I’m just stating an obvious fact, that USA is now an enemy to democracy and the international rule of law, and also to human rights.
How am I a fascist for pointing out a fundamental problem of USA that goes way beyond Trump?
There are good people in USA, but they are still part of a system that has now become our enemy.
Politically I am very much a moderate, and I have to realize that there is absolutely nothing moderate about USA as a country right now. USA isn’t even a real democracy, considering they have only 2 right wing parties. 1 is far right, the other is extreme right.
Especially when it’s a democracy, although USA always was a dysfunctional democracy, the people did have the power to prevent Trump.
It’s awful yes, but it’s a fact.
USA as a country is an enemy, and technically that means all Americans.
If the sane Americans can change things back to normal in USA, this would end.
But as it is, when USA as a country is an enemy, the population of that country becomes an enemy too. Because it’s the population that allow the government to function as it does.
Go ask Renee good’s family
You are among those that allowed it to come to this. All Americans are responsible for failing to do more, as it is the entirety of American society. Although everybody is not equally responsible of course.
False. Europe is working on providing security guarantees for Ukraine without USA.
USA is near irrelevant for Ukraine now, they are merely a weapons dealer, with the audacity to charge extra when the coalition of the willing are buying weapons for Ukraine.
So just piss off USA, we don’t need you anymore. Maybe come back in 3 years and maybe we can speak again, but things will never go back to how they were.
I’m never gonna drink a coca cola with American whiskey or bourbon again. Or for that matter use anything American I can do without. American society is collectively mentally ill, and USA cannot be trusted.