• @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    1264 days ago

    Trump said Canada could join the system for free if it becomes the 51st U.S. state. If not, it would cost $61 billion.

    And Canada said: “No.” 🤭

  • Cruxifux
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    1284 days ago

    Good. Get us entirely separated from the states. We need to get off that sinking ship as fast as possible.

    • Atelopus-zeteki
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      654 days ago

      Save yourselves first. Always put on your oxygen mask before turning to help someone else to put on theirs. Sigh, I wish it wasn’t the case that this was necessary. And it is.

      • @dephyre@lemmy.world
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        244 days ago

        After you guys get safe can you help us with our oxygen masks please? Apparently 48% of us can’t figure it out.

        • @cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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          154 days ago

          We’ll help as much as we can, but despite all appearances we’re still just one little guy here, and you guys apparently have a lot of work that needs to get done. We aren’t gonna be able to do it all by ourselves. Start helping your own neighbors figure their shit out and don’t wait for us to come to your rescue. We’ll try, but can’t make any promises when shit starts getting real like this.

      • Cruxifux
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        54 days ago

        I don’t really know how you expect a country with a fraction of your population to be able to help you, and I don’t really understand how eager you think a country your country is threatening to invade and annex is going to be to help you

        • Atelopus-zeteki
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          33 days ago

          For me, it’s like this. Do you know people in the same way you know a country? I’m not talking to Canada, I’m talking to Canadians. And our country, USA is a lot effed up right now. And that’s gonna harm a lot more USians than it will help, I fear. I know a few Canadians, and would do a lot for any of them because of who I know them to be on a personal, not national basis. Doubtless selection bias of some sort going on to be sure. Maybe you know some people of a different nationality, ethnicity, etc, and you know they are decent people even tho’ it might be the case that their government is absolute shite. And I didn’t ask for anything, Said ‘save yourselves first’ and gave a metaphor for why that is important, but for the moment I don’t really need an o2 mask, it’s a metaphor.

  • @someguy3@lemmy.world
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    404 days ago

    Carney said his government is working quickly to join the EU-led “ReArm Europe” program, which plans to invest $1.25 trillion in defense over the next five years.

    “Seventy-five cents of every dollar spent on defense goes to the United States. That’s not a smart move,” Carney told host David Cochrane.

    • @n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
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      184 days ago

      Over a 5 year span and thats the total estimate for all of the EU. 5% Total GDP, 3.5% goes to military and 1.5% goes to others like cyber security

    • @Pilferjinx@lemmy.world
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      113 days ago

      That would be amazing if it was easy. The EU is a political mess and adding more states would add stressful complexity. It’s a peace time project and peace currently has a gun to it’s head.

  • @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Welp, that’s gonna be fun for NORAD… not to mention put a bit of a dent in the ‘Golden Dome’… concept of a concept of a plan…