Canada might have trouble being so close the US, and despite being in a great position geographically, Australia’s media is nonstop banging the drums of war and constantly accusing China of secretly planning to invade Australia, they are used as a boogeyman here the same way they are in Korea and Japan and Singapore. I’m sure our ruling class knows there’s no military invasion happening, but a lot of them just want to bugger off to the US once all the copper has been stripped from our walls.
Thankfully the blind hate for China isn’t as bad now as it was a few years ago, the US is shooting themselves in the foot, it’s more a question of whether Australia will choose to be independent or fuck ourselves over (or just fuck over the working class) and at the moment I’m honestly not sure which way things will end up.
Canada being close to the US is precisely what makes people here worried about the US. Now that they see naked aggression in form of the trade war, and the whole talk of annexation, the sentiment is quickly turning against the states. Amusingly, Canada was happy to bend over backwards for the US before Trump started the trade war. It was a 51st state in all but name. Now there is serious talk about diversifying trade and maybe restarting some domestic industry.
That’s true, the US’s rhetoric has made Australians much more open to working with other countries like China. Though I’m worried that it is just liberal brunch stuff, and that if a democrat gets into power people will just blindly support the US, even though it will be exactly the same as now, just with a “civil” leader instead of a buffoonish one. It already happened with Trump last time, so it could happen again this time. Not sure if you had a similar situation in Canada or not though.
What we see happening in the US is structural. If dems get back into power, the rhetoric might change, but not their policy. The US is now forced to prey on its vassals to sustain its own economy, and with the global economy bifurcating between G7 and BRICS, the economic situation in the US can only get worse going forward which will necessitate increased levels of exploitation of the countries it dominates. I think they’ve crossed the Rubicon at this point where the mask has dropped.
That is true, but I would imagine the average lib in western countries would take any chance to go back to brunch, even if nothing has changed materially. Though as they continue to squeeze their vassals more and more, that sort of “head in the sand” attitude will become more and more unacceptable, hopefully people don’t fall for it long enough to do lasting damage and result in US vassals being too weak to actually fight back.
Oh for sure, you can really see how Canada and Europe were pushing each other out of the way for a turn to crawl up Trump’s ass. They really would rather be abused by a white nation than cooperate with the rest of the world. The problem they have, as you point out, is that declining material conditions are turning the public against them. We see it happening most prominently in Europe, but the situation is fairly tense in Canada as well.
This is all going to be interesting to watch in the coming years. The US has a lot of vassals, and maintaining control over them has to be a very resource intensive operation. Up to now, the vassals policed themselves, but with the domestic public becoming restless, that might not hold for long.
Canada might have trouble being so close the US, and despite being in a great position geographically, Australia’s media is nonstop banging the drums of war and constantly accusing China of secretly planning to invade Australia, they are used as a boogeyman here the same way they are in Korea and Japan and Singapore. I’m sure our ruling class knows there’s no military invasion happening, but a lot of them just want to bugger off to the US once all the copper has been stripped from our walls.
Thankfully the blind hate for China isn’t as bad now as it was a few years ago, the US is shooting themselves in the foot, it’s more a question of whether Australia will choose to be independent or fuck ourselves over (or just fuck over the working class) and at the moment I’m honestly not sure which way things will end up.
Canada being close to the US is precisely what makes people here worried about the US. Now that they see naked aggression in form of the trade war, and the whole talk of annexation, the sentiment is quickly turning against the states. Amusingly, Canada was happy to bend over backwards for the US before Trump started the trade war. It was a 51st state in all but name. Now there is serious talk about diversifying trade and maybe restarting some domestic industry.
That’s true, the US’s rhetoric has made Australians much more open to working with other countries like China. Though I’m worried that it is just liberal brunch stuff, and that if a democrat gets into power people will just blindly support the US, even though it will be exactly the same as now, just with a “civil” leader instead of a buffoonish one. It already happened with Trump last time, so it could happen again this time. Not sure if you had a similar situation in Canada or not though.
What we see happening in the US is structural. If dems get back into power, the rhetoric might change, but not their policy. The US is now forced to prey on its vassals to sustain its own economy, and with the global economy bifurcating between G7 and BRICS, the economic situation in the US can only get worse going forward which will necessitate increased levels of exploitation of the countries it dominates. I think they’ve crossed the Rubicon at this point where the mask has dropped.
That is true, but I would imagine the average lib in western countries would take any chance to go back to brunch, even if nothing has changed materially. Though as they continue to squeeze their vassals more and more, that sort of “head in the sand” attitude will become more and more unacceptable, hopefully people don’t fall for it long enough to do lasting damage and result in US vassals being too weak to actually fight back.
Oh for sure, you can really see how Canada and Europe were pushing each other out of the way for a turn to crawl up Trump’s ass. They really would rather be abused by a white nation than cooperate with the rest of the world. The problem they have, as you point out, is that declining material conditions are turning the public against them. We see it happening most prominently in Europe, but the situation is fairly tense in Canada as well.
This is all going to be interesting to watch in the coming years. The US has a lot of vassals, and maintaining control over them has to be a very resource intensive operation. Up to now, the vassals policed themselves, but with the domestic public becoming restless, that might not hold for long.