u/justOnePersistentKbinPlease — justOnePersistentKbinPlease

71 million miles in simulators and closed tracks

Because we are transitioning away from the US and that takes time.

E.G. Canada's government removed industrial tariffs temporarily but kept commercial good tariffs. This is so that Canadian industries can get the necessary tooling and other things from the US now and remove the US from Canadian logistics.

So that Canada can move to completely remove the US from the industry side.

Let's not forget that Starmer capitulated on the trade war.

He gets:

• to still pay with an uneven playing field that benefits the US(import taxes)

• to only bring in a limited amount of UK cars to the US market, instead of the previous unlimited amount.

• to hurt the UK beef industry by accepting in the US' frankly atrocious beef, which will be dumped in below cost to UK farmers due to the lack of quality controls on US beef.

Yeah great preliminary deal.

Thats what Canada did too. Applied light counter tariffs, told the moron that he can call us. Trump almost completely folded and Canada hasn't lightened any of its tariffs outside of the electricity one.

Only difference is that Canada is still playing nice.

China has not shown it first.

Canada has done it *several times already* just with the current "administration"

Sorry, I was under the assumption that the plan was what Bibi planned all along. He planted the idea in the orange moron that it was his plan to give himself plausible deniability.

You missed the last part of that exchange.

Carney says "Never".

The VPD released the name and current charges. Asian male, currently 8 murder charges, victims from 5 to 65.

Frankly the VPD and City Hall have to answer as to why they didnt use the standard dump truck road blocks that they use for functionally every other city event.

Yeah except China needs Canadian resources just like the US does, and they have a one in 2 centuries chance to deprive the US of resources.

Trick is that Vancouver is a *massive* port complex and can pick up the slack for the US pacific ports.

And knowing how Richmond, BC operates, expect to see a *lot* of sudden Chinese business activity where things are being "finished" in Canada then shipped to the US.

*laughs in the Port of Vancouver*

Every week I pass by a starbucks at a major transit hubin Canada.

Used to be a big blocker with the crowd of40-50 people at all times waiting to either order or pickup.

Since feb it is below 8 people. The local coffee shop across the street, and even the Canadian fast food place that serves *good* breakfast though, they got a lot of new business.

Because this way he gets the AI with data that OpenAI couldn't get, and now likely won't get until foreign spies steal it from DOGE and sell it to them.

He paid it to himself. The value is completely made up.

Except for Germany, which did come out with explicit support.

And the UK, which King Charles has made plenty clear they have Canada's back.

And France, which has a nuclear attack sub currently parked in Halifax.

And of the top of my head, South Korea, Japan, Philippines have all moved to distance from the US and embrace Canada.

Yup, Canada is completely alone. Fuck you, US propaganda.

How can you keep it?

We do American better than they do. No american shithole would be safe.

If it comes down to it, the question becomes how much fuel and goods do they have in their supply chain.

Canada is:

60% of their crude oil and most of their refineries are built to *only* handle it, the only alternative is Venezuela, and they can't supply the same amount.

90% of their Potash, no other country can supply the same amount. Required for modern farming.

60% of their Aluminium, no other country can meet the supply. They also lack the smelters to produce it, even if the ore can be sourced.

100% of their peat. Required for modern farming.

90% of their Vanadium. Critical to a *stupid* amount of industrial processes.

This is on top of the hundreds of billions Canadians spend on US goods and services each year.

If they try anything stupid, their entire system will dry up.

Oh sure, but he illegally rammed three pipelines through to the BC coast to give oil and LNG to China, *which doesn't want it*.

Meanwhile he ignored the potential of a pipeline to the Maritimes, which could then ship oil and LNG to Europe. That would have revitalized the Maritimes and provided a much needed competitor to Russia.

Yeah, all for it.

We can thank Stephen Harper and Pierre Polievre for ignoring Europe for so long when we should have been there for you guys, helping you separate from Putin's oil and gas.

Hopefully Carney will remedy that situation, and we can all get rid of the despotic sycophants.

The great lakes corridor and the west coast can be Canadian.

Mexico takes Texas and whatever else it wants, likely gulf states through to Florida.