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[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Watch as Canada's so-called allies do jack shit because relations with India, a rising power they can use to futilely attempt to encircle China, are clearly more important than relations with a close ally that's fought for them, lost domestic industries for them, soured international relations for them, and has been their largest trading partner for decades.

Seriously, what the fuck? The US has had an incredibly weak position on this ordeal that's entirely unexpected from such a close ally and feels far more like something coming out of Germany or France - aligned by being part of the West but not in terms of actual interests. This is what the US has said publicly:

"They are certainly serious allegations, and we believe in order to determine how credible they are, there needs to be a thorough investigation. Prime Minister Trudeau has called for that, and so we'll see how Canada moves forward on this. It's certainly well within their capacity to do this, and we urge India as well to participate and cooperate in that investigation. It is important to find out exactly what happened."

I'm sorry, but what the fuck? We're talking about a country violating our territorial integrity to commit an assassination in a dense and developed suburb of one of our largest urban centers. This investigation has been going on for months.

Our allies are leaving us out to dry solely because, despite our history of being their steadfast ally, we don't provide them as much utility as this shiny new country that wasn't relevant until it suddenly was because the Soviet Union collapsed, they pulled out of the Middle East, and they declared China to be the new big bad.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

We didn't do shit when our own citizen was butchered on the order of a foreign head of state.

Didn't do shit when a foreign head of state effectively ordered his "bodyguards" to attack American citizens who were protesting on American soil.

We're barely doing shit about the currently growing coup.

[–] mPony@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

to be fair, "doing shit" really means "doing shit that benefits people without much power and influence", so, there's basically no incentive other than "because it's the right and just thing to do" which has never been the M.O. , despite everything people have been taught in the movies you make.

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