I am sorry to my European friends, and Canadian friends. There is no winning when you're fighting with the US. Biden, and the democrats kept kicking the can of Russia, and China down the road.
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Dude, you can be so incredibly full of shit.
This is the poison of nationalism, it just makes people stupid. The USA is in a position similar to the UK in 1918: technically top dog at the time, but in truth knowing that the period of pre-eminence is in decline. That's much of what MAGA is about: the howl of rage from people who don't want to accept that their era of dominance is over.
Even if the USA annexes Canada, it's still under 400 million people - far less than China, India, or even the EU. In the long run, power is people and money. What makes the USA top dog is money, but the way China and India's economies are growing, even that's going fast. China is reputedly ahead on a host of important future techs. By PPP, some argue China's economy is already larger than the USA. Trump's vision of future America appears to be some sort of "Fortress North America": but this is really just North Korea strategy on a larger scale. The rest of the world is going to carry on without it.
This mockery of Europe sums up the self-defeating stupidity of it all. Europe is (was?) the USA's ally. In all major conflicts the US has fought in my lifetime, Europe has provided over 10% of the force (including of course
cost). The USA is essentially telling Europe "go find other friends". And you know what? That can work. Europe can heavily reduce its shared benefits - trade, tech, influence, etc. - with the USA. Irrespective of where Europe is going, how much Americans and Chinese sneer, it's still 500 million people with a lot of money, and it takes a genuine moron to think that the USA not having that backing it up makes the USA stronger.
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