Canada plans to assist Cuba as Washington squeezes the island | CNN
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Canada said on Monday it plans to provide assistance to Cuba while the island grapples with fuel shortages after Washington moved to choke off Cuba’s oil supplies.
  • Toto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    Someone getting in the way of trump inflicting generalized misery will not go over well. It’s the last joy he has!

    • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      11th province, baby! Trump already hates us both - let’s team up! How nice would it be to have year-round beaches in Canada? Plus, they already have healthcare.

      (Joking, obviously)

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      61·
      1 day ago

      I mean this is the exception that proves the rule more than anything given that Canada hadn’t done anything about the embargo in the 87 years since its imposition.

      • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        And what about the Iraq war, and abortion, and universal healthcare, and legalized weed, are they also exceptions that prove the rule? Where are the regularities that prove the rule?

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
          1·
          20 hours ago

          How Canada treats its own citizens is irrelevant to its relationship with America, so of these only the Iraq war is relevant, and… uh… yeah.

          Where are the regularities that prove the rule?

          Good thing you asked. Off the top of my head: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_in_the_War_in_Afghanistan, https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_relations-relations_internationales/sanctions/iran.aspx?lang=eng, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada–Israel_relations, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_the_Yemeni_civil_war (CTRL+F Canada). And that’s before we get into Carney’s string of capitulations since his election. If anything can you name three instances of US regime change that Canada meaningfully opposed? Any instance of Canada following a foreign policy counter to US interests?

          • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            16 hours ago

            How Canada treats its own citizens is irrelevant to its relationship with America

            Really? You don’t think America cares that Canada is a big shining example right on their border that fully legalized abortion and universal healthcare works perfectly fine?

            Good thing you asked. Off the top of my head:

            Could you be a bit more specific than linking the entire wikipedia article on “Canada in the war in Afghanistan” and then saying “ctrl f Canada”?

            If anything can you name three instances of US regime change that Canada meaningfully opposed?

            All of them? Unless by “meaningfully” you mean “militarily” or “economically”, and then my next question would be… how?

            Any instance of Canada following a foreign policy counter to US interests?

            Right now, we’re making deals with China in response to their tariffs.

            Are you sure it isn’t just Russian and Chinese propaganda that has led you to believe that any nation who doesn’t automatically take their side on every issue is somehow an “American vassal state”?