Canadians say U.S. no longer an ally, is bigger threat than Russia: poll
(globalnews.ca)
from schizoidman@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 23:59
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from schizoidman@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 23:59
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58 per cent of Canadians surveyed said they no longer view the U.S. as a reliable ally
Over two-thirds of Canadians said the U.S. tends to create problems for other countries rather than solve them
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With this administration theyâre at least screwing their own citizens as well, besides the rest of the world that is.Â
Incorrect.
They are âscrewingâ kiddies and shooting their own citizens.
Democrats: Hard Neoliberalism at home, Fascism abroad.
Republicans: Fascism everywhere.
âFascism is the tools of empire used against the homelandâ
Eh, sorry bud.
Iâm not your buddy, guy
Donald is a fucking hoser
Take off eh
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This is the chaos and discord Putin loves to see.
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Well yeah, anything that weakens NATO is red meat for him. So to speak.
Itâs regrettable to give Putin any comfort, but I donât think Canadians are wrong here. The US is firmly in its âflailing and desperately externalisingâ phase of imperial decline, and I think a GB-style âsoft landingâ of the American empire is too much to hope for.
âIt would be so much easier for Canada if they just agreed to join the US.â
Most threatening line from all Trumpâs attacks for me. It might seem harmless but it reads: "it would be so much easier for you (for the US) if you just stop struggling.
I donât say this lightly about a person, but I truly believe rape is at the very core of his being.
Thatâs exactly it
Make America Rape Again
Itâs because deep down he knows heâs a weak, pathetic, insignificant man and needs to hurt the most vulnerable to feel powerful.
I donât even think heâs actually sexually attracted to children. I think he gets off on causing lifelong suffering, and the more vulnerable the person heâs breaking is, the better it feels. Children are the most vulnerable and he can do the most damage to them.
usa does things at the behest of russia and israel.
In case you havenât notice the kinds of shit the Techbros are loudly pushing, the US most definitelly does things at the behest of its own fatcats first and foremost.
Granted, their interestest seem to be aligned in the most with mainly Israel and also partly Russia.
Gonna go ahead guess this is an online poll for the terminally online and not an actual indicator of the real world.
Nah, as a Canadian I genuinely feel like the US is a larger global threat than Russia. The US has a larger economy, a better military, and a less functional authoritarian government. Say what you will about Putin and his authoritarianism⌠At least he knows what the fuck heâs doing. Trump and his entire administration are fucking unhinged morons. Not to mention if Russia decided to invade us weâd have dozens of countries coming to our defence.
I canât say the same if the USA did. I would hope Article 5 would enact and the US could never win a war on 4 fronts. But Iâm not confident.
Putinâs goals are irrelevant because the entire Russian state is paralyzed by vranyo. From the generals faking reports to the shills faking âvictoriesâ online, youâve lied to yourselves so much that youâve accidentally built a military that only works on paper. Itâs not a war machine; itâs a theater troupe thatâs currently being exposed as incompetent on a global stage.
âgonna be using AI to respond to russian shills from hereon
All of their points were very true and have absolutely been considered by all Canadians lately. Some feel more strongly than others, but a lot have expressed their hatred towards the US.
Russia never made targeted threats at our sovereignty. The US has been doing nothing but that for over a year now.
If you want to use an LLM and waste a bunch of energy to respond to someone making a valid point, go for it, just kind of ends up being another reminder of how ignorant Americans can be to anything they donât have the capacity to understand.
The US being a âthreatâ is a separate conversation for people who care. The conversation here is that Russia is a global parasite. Their only exports are corruption, destabilization, and dashcam footage of their own tanks exploding. Even if they werenât an incompetent messâwhich they areâtheyâd still be a negative force that adds zero value to the modern world. They arenât a âGreat Powerâ; theyâre a gas station with a failing army and an identity crisis.
What âpositive forceâ have the US been contributing to the rest of the world lately? At this point the two countries are exporting a lot of the same destabilization and corruption.
For that matter most of your post could be used to describe the US, with the added possibility of a civil war in the near future.
Your arguments just arenât holding weight.
Stop hiding behind the US. Itâs a pathetic shield for a country thatâs currently a global laughingstock. Whether the US has problems doesnât change the fact that Russia is a hollowed-out gas station with a museum-grade military. The âWorldâs Second Armyâ is currently begging North Korea for ammo and losing its Black Sea Fleet to a nation without a navy. Thatâs the reality of Russia: an incompetent, corrupt mess that provides zero value to the world.
âHiding behind the USâ. Jeez your talking points are straight from the Whitehouse too.
âRussia is a hollowed out gas station, but you should totally be more afraid of them than the USâ - do you see how your arguments are all over the place? I guess youâre likely still using that AI to build your responses, because your posts seem to have amnesia regarding any past point youâve tried to make.
As a Russian, I recognize the pattern. It is much easier to point out contradictions in others than to address the fact that our âsuperpowerâ status has devolved into being a global nuisance with an incompetent military.
Youâre rightâit is a strange position to be in: a gas station that canât win its own war, yet insists on being a global player. We use the âWhat about Americaâ script specifically so we donât have to face how hollowed-out our war machine has actually become. Itâs the essence of vranyoâwe both know the âGreat Powerâ image is a fiction, but we keep talking about the US to avoid the embarrassment of our own reality. I see youâve adopted that tradition perfectly.
There it is.
The US will get there in time. For now, Trump is still busy squandering the momentum that the US accumulated from a century of more able administrators. It was a already a deeply flawed democracy in 2016, but it had good institutions, experts and money money money. Trump is attacking all three - and there is no organized resistance yet.
Yep sadge for them. Doesnât change what russia is tho.
agreed.
Gonna say you donât have a finger in the pulse and canât read the room.
This terminally online room? I should use it to gauge the legitimacy of the poll which I criticize for being irrelevant because it was entirely online? I only guessed buddy do you mean to tell me the poll was actually taken in the real world?!
No, but I can see how clever you must be for doinâ all that noodle-bakinâ critical thinking youâre putting into your thesis here.
Iâm actually-factually talking about the friends and neighbors and family I have. The guy working the grocery store checkout. The teacher at my kids school. The girls at at the art center where my kid be volunteers on weekends. The stage director and castmates at my wifeâs theater group. Preeeety much anyone I casually interact with. You literally stand out as one of the few exceptions.
Is that not online  enough for ya? Have I touched enough grass to be considered a legitimate data point for your bullshit scorecard? Or are we still huffing selection bias fumes and dancing to the Dunning-Kruger Memorial waltz?
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So I should just take your terminally online ass as factual instead of using my own observations and personal relationships to make my own judgement?
To answer your questions:
Nope still too online.
Nope you canât talk your way into this you are still on the outside.
Selection bias fumes are you freaking kidding me? All I did was assume it was an online poll correct me if I am wrong. In the meantime: journals.sagepub.com/doi/âŚ/2378023118791080 pewresearch.org/âŚ/assessing-the-risks-to-online-p⌠en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_poll
Jesus christ dude Iâm just going to ignore that you brought up the dunning-kruger effect otherwise this is just going to be a verbal bashing.
Comment history of antagonism. I wouldnât expect thoughtful replies.
Iâm a bit fucking concerned about the fascist take over happening beside that not a single person down there seems interested in doing anything about.
What is the difference between Russia and the US?
Just this week, Kirill Dmitriev, Putinâs âeconomic envoyâ who also serves as CEO of Russiaâs Direct Investment Fund, pitches joint US-Russia projects of 14 trillion USD, contingent on a peace agreement in Ukraine and the lifting of Western sanctions.
Also this week we heard that Gentry Beach, a US investor with close ties to the Trump family, signed an agreement with Russiaâs energy giant Novatek already last autumn to develop natural gas in Alaska amid Western sanctions against Russia.
Trumpâs negotiators for peace in Ukraine are Steven Witkoff and Trumpâs son-in-law Jared Kushner, two real estate developers and investor. What do they negotiate?
If such polls are useful at all then only to distract from reality. That helps autocratic regimes as they make autocratic regimes like Russia and China look as the lesser evil. Itâs not true, though.
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Yeah that stupid country can suck a truck stop dick and then fuck itself right off.
GO AWAY.
This is gonna end in a very sad, and devastating way for us (US). Unfortunately, Iâm too fucking poor and ill to get the hell off this god-damned Continent.
Our hegemony was going to end one way or the other, sooner or later. I just didnât think it would be done by some fucking dipshit dousing everything with kerosene and blowing everything up with a tactical nuke while pooping himself.
But hey, those libs sure got owned.
We sure stuck it to the DNC for running a mediocre candidate, didnât we.
âCanadians say U.S. ⌠is bigger threat [to us] than Russiaâ
Worldâs longest undefended border may have something to do with that.
Note: ask any country in Latin America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Africa, or the Arabian/Persian Gulf who is a bigger threat, youâll get the same answer. Some might say China is forgotten from the list.
Canadians are breaking through the propaganda, finally. Contra-American sentiment or a political anti-American stance has probably not been this rooted since 1812.
Russia threatens European power. U.S. threatens the Western Hemisphere and
⌠and what?! Did they get to you?!
Iâm sure that for Taiwan and South Korea, China is the biggest threat. For Poland, the biggest threat is Russia. Itâs obvious why the US is the biggest threat for Canada.
Even if the border werenât open and undefended, the two countriesâ economies have been getting more and more integrated for decades. Canadaâs economy depends on a stable and sane USA. For a long time that was a safe bet, but now the US is attacking Canada. And, even if it werenât for the tariffs and other attacks, the absolute chaos that Trump is doing to the American economy would reverberate into Canadaâs economy.
It was nice of the CIA agent to hit âsubmitâ after offing you.
Yup
As Iâve mentioned previously, both Canada and Mexico have one huge problem between them.