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Indeed: a LOT of people are still on Twitter/X.

Italian is quicker and easier to make

Oh no! No it is not!
If you want a real Bolognese sauce, know it needs to simmer for a looooong time, and if you’ve never had this, you never had a real Bolognese sauce! Nothing you will find pre-made in a jar will ever match the fresh one!
It’s just like pizzas: fresh made are incomparable to frozen ones.
Italian food was made “quick-and-convenient” by the food industry because it is top-tier, not because it was initially quick and convenient.
And industry italian-style food is of a much lower standard than genuine italian cuisine.

And if Macron still refuses to join, he’ll hold his breath until France pays up!

There already are private military. Black Water and alike are absolutely private armies. But that could be expensive, even for trillionaires. It’s a much better strategy to privatize the existing military and get it paid by the government. Watch it, it’s going to happen!

I asked that question before, so allow me again: if the Trump decide to take Greenland, Denmark is going to resist, using their US-made equipment, and will order spare parts and ammos to whom? (oh and prepare F35 flight missions on a US server, no issue there…).

And in a further protest gesture, Denmark will order an additional 3B$ worth of military equipment to US companies.

Time to thank all politicians in Europe who were reluctant to decarbonate the economy because it’s bAd fOr bUsInEsS.
Today we count how much money they’re sending Russia by buying gas vs Ukraine by providing military equipment. All good for the business I guess.
Today we assess how dependent on US gas the EU is in time of crisis. All good for the business too, I guess.
In this context, rolling back the ban on gas cars in 2035 is another great geopolitical move that will guarantee EU’s future amidst international tension and resources depletion (oil extraction is to drop by half from 2030 to 2050, and that means producers will slow exportations and use is primarily for their internal needs).

He will declare that Dems cheated everywhere they win, and if the House tries anything, he will declare they are traitors and declare state of emergency claiming absolute power (or whatever other made up shit).

Time to count who sides with whom in the military…

Trump is actively trying to kill Canada’s car industry. So if China is willing to do so, Canada should lift the tariffs on their EVs in exchange for a quota of cars or components made in Canada.
Long term, it is probably a better strategy as US car makers are falling so much behind on EVs they could go down in the coming years, especially if they hang on petro-cars.

As for the military, it’s never too late to start doing the right thing and diversify its sourcing. No more 100% US by default, and require guarantees on supply and independence.
Europe and other countries have very good and modern equipments also, mind you.

I agree with you on what we’ll hear, but I second the other comment: besides the speeches, Carney will move Canada further away from the US.
He started doing so without saying it too loudly. Only an idiot would not see it. The good thing is only one idiot needs to be fooled.

To escalate, he has multiple levers at his disposal: the everlasting hesitation between F35 and Gripen purchase, the tariffs on Chinese EV (if they were repelled, US car makers could be driven out of Canada’s market within just a few years). And of course dumping US bonds, but that would hurt Canada too.

If you forget only the name, that’s cool. I also forget people’s faces. Talking with kids parents: “Hi! I’m [name] -Huh! I know!” -_-’

And then they will use US made systems. But the vendors will locate some computers in Europe, so it’s totally sovereign.

Can’t tell for all of the equipment (from my understanding, they happily buy 100% US…), but for the F35, that’s not exact. It needs constant update, and from what I read, it is still usable for ~30 days after they would ban it from the network. But “usable” means back to pen and paper on board for missions…

Yep! So if US comes, they will send in their F35, after having keyed in the mission parameters, that will go straight to a Lockheed server in the US to be uploaded in the jets, and with that they will take their ennemy by surprise!

Oh, shit! The jets were shot down! Weren’t they stealth??

Danes will have to order more, then…

"Sir, it seems like these Epstein files that were released have a lot of mentions of you, and this is causing a stir…

-Well, let’s bomb something!"

I still don’t see a good reason you couldn’t go through a bill, running in front of congress, for this, as well as the Vietnam draft dodgers mentioned above.

I still don’t see a good reason you couldn’t go through a bill, running in front of congress, for this, as well as the Vietnam draft dodgers mentioned above.

The EU is also largely ruled by neo-cons. They will refuse to let billionaires’ wealth go down.

Besides, the treasury bonds selling off is, as you say, a financial nuke: you can use it only once, and it’s a mutual destruction. These bonds have value today, if you abruptly sell them, you lose, the US loses, then what? They give up on their evil plans? What do you have to stop them now?

Not just the Nordics, the entire Europe, Canada, and then the whole world will start a survey of what the US might consider “geopolitically strategic points”.

Russia will enjoy seeing NATO totally collapse as the US invades another member’s territory.

Meanwhile, Denmark keeps buying F35, for some reasons…

NATO is both a protection agreement and a tool to bind its members to somel level of US control. A new alliance is needed without the US. It should start with Europe (not just the EU, it should include the UK and non-EU countries) and it could then attract Canada, Australia, Japan, … But that requires members to get their shit together and rebuild their respective armies. And all the countries that bought F35 just bound themselves to the US for decades again. So it looks really bad right now.