Considering that it has been less than 100 years that America has been considered our ally (the entire purpose of Confederation in 1867 was to form a strong Canada that could defend itself against the American foe), the needle has been pointing to ‘enemy’ longer than it has been pointing to ‘ally’. History will regard the ‘friend’ part as just a brief interlude.

I am afraid Americans in general do not look at Canadians as ‘friends’, they look at us as ‘customers’.

I really good suggestion that was made was that they have to serve their term out as an independent until the next election.

You have an interesting version and concept of history and current events. Even if the Dems win the house, and even if they win the next Presidential election, nothing will change about the US because there is nothing any President can do to save it. The problems America has are systemic and ingrained in the economy. Trump is just the poster boy, bringing them out to the attention of the world. America has gone from America 80% world GDP to less than 20% world GDP in two decades. That will never be undone by ANY future President.

South Korea is actually taking over the role of America as the world’s arms manufacturer, (heading for fourth place) and that will not change no matter what happens in the US politically. As the world shies away from American arms, South Korea is determined to pick up the slack. Once they get market share, they will not lose it. They have the industrial capacity to beat out anyone, even the US.

Law of Unintended Consequences - More federal PC members are going over to the Liberals because they can n ot tolerate what is happening in their own party. Soon Carney will have his majority.

PP has already split from him.

They do not intend to use it. Just the knowledge that they have it and CAN use it is causing the US to back off against warmongering rhetoric against China. However, it is China that is developing the stable allies because of their military might, and America that is losing stable allies because it is becoming militarily impotent. America did not have the resources to defend even the Ukraine, so no country is now relying on the US to even defend America against another major military.

When those ‘few’ bombing survivors blow up buildings, yeah they make a big impact. The genocide was on the part of the Americans who dropped the bomb, they intended to wipe out the Uighur.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/5/26/afghan-villagers-struggle-years-after-us-dropped-mother-of-all#flips-6373504880112:0

You are thinking like an American, not a Chinese. Their ‘strong message’ was to build a larger navy than America has, develop nuclear ballistic missiles that will reach America, and develop 6th gen bombers.

Whatever the West destroys, China can rebuild in a few years. When Tesla wanted to build cars in China, it took the Chinese exactly one year from no plans and raw ground to the first car coming off the line. China may be selfish, but that selfishness is enshrined in ‘efficient’. China is well aware of the level of destruction in these countries, and is not ignoring it. Read my link. The evidence is clear and unambiguous.

China is NOT afraid to send America a very strong message. The two Michaels? Sure they were Canadian, but both had very strong ties to America. One set up the Republican connections with North Korea (Rodman’s visit with Kim), the other carried out (Democrat) George Soros’ plans through the International Crisis Group. Covered both American political parties, so it did not matter what President was in office. Chinese saying: kill the monkey, scare the dragon. Another Chinese saying: Kill with a borrowed knife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems#%3A~%3Atext=Kill+with+a+borrowed+knife+(借刀殺人%2C+Jiè%2Cto+the+enemy+via+a+third+party.

Went right over your head, huh?

Unfortunately for your position China has the resources and the wealth to build faster than America can destroy it. Look at what China has accomplished in their own country in just the last two decades. Whatever America destroys, China can rebuild ten times over. That is what the ‘other countries’ are beginning to realize, and why they are not really afraid of Trump. What China wants to do in the rest of the world is to raise the world standard of living in order to produce a larger market for Chinese exports. Yes, that is ‘selfish’, but yes, that is beneficial to the other countries. America wanted to keep the other countries impoverished, and to make really cheap goods for the American market. That is ‘selfish’, but also self-destructive. They now realize they have no export market, they do not make anything to export, now that the rest of the world has the money to buy stuff.

The Chinese make stuff, and also have the entire African market to export it to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_China

And you consider that a ‘reputable source’? I bet you believe the populist tabloid National Enquirer a reputable source as well.

This is not about Trump. Trump is the symptom, the poster boy, not the cause. There are deeper powers than Trump that are causing the American collapse. These powers are just giving Trump the room to maneuver, and letting him rip. Trump is just the lose cannon they are using to destroy everything. They don’t care what he does, as long as he keeps destroying things.

What you missed was the difference between lower case ‘c’ conservative instead of the Capital ‘C’ Conservative. We need to conserve our environment, that is what lower case ‘c’ conservative is all about.

I would not even say ‘better’ and ‘worse’. It is actually shaping up to be ‘worse’ and ‘less worse’. The middle countries, in their own self-interest, will seek the choice of ‘less worse’ and depend on their own population for ‘better’.

Being selfish and self-centered is not always a bad thing, as a philosopher will tell you. It does not restrict one from being a philanthropist, if your goal is fame and glory.

Unfortunately, your viewpoint is a result of Western propaganda, not the actual reality. There is a reason why African nations now seek Chinese investment money instead of American. The Chinese lend the locals the money to build and own their own productivity, leaving the profits with the local owners. The Americans built and kept ownership of the productivity and returned all the profits to America. The Chinese are doing the same thing in Cuba. The goal of the Americans was to suck the wealth out of the world. The goal of the Chinese is to raise the standard of living of the rest of the world so there will be a market for their exports.

Those who ignore history do so at their own peril, as it is bound to repeat itself.

To a good history student, they will go well beyond the whitewashing and seek the true history. It is the whitewashing that you should object to, not the history itself.

That little panhandle is what created the Uighur problem for China. The Americans dropped their most powerful bomb on the Taliban terrorist camps in the panhandle, who wanted to create a Uighur ISIS homeland in the panhandle independent of Afghanistan. So the Uighur ISIS terrorists fled to China, and the rest is history. The terrorists tried to make the Chinese side their own homeland, and used a ruthless terror campaign of bombings and killings to terrorize the local population, so they could make it an ISIS state. Unfortunately for them, the Chinese government had different ideas about them taking over the area. Mind you, Western news tells the story slightly differently, although the American bombing of innocent civilians in the panhandle is well documented.

And what, exactly, is wrong with that?