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Originally Posted by OldDutch
Love flippant remarks to facts.
Here’s the simple truth. The US has been fantastic for Canada. It shares our general principles.
Russia and China do not, and I am doubtful on balance for Canadians this world you speak of is better.
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You're suggesting a world in which Russia is a superpower on the level of the US? I just don't see it.
I think it's also a little naive to assume a world where there is a more even balance of power is worse. What if the US had real fear of pissing of China, and didn't get up to their decades of foreign misdeeds and millions of dead bodies and massive amounts of human suffering as a result? Do you really think you can definitively say that this scenario would have China murdering even more foreigners, and disrupting the progression of even more foreign countries?
If they were both afraid of pissing each other off, maybe the rest of the planet would have been left alone a bit more.
And frankly, I don't give a crap what's good for Canada if it's at the expense of others. Why are the lives here worth more than people across some imaginary line on a map?