It’s blatant extortion now.

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        … are you arguing that BRICS is going to place sanctions Canada if they join? Literally what consequences would there be?

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          No, I’m saying that ‘they just trade’ isn’t as innocuous as it sounds. Choosing bad partners can get you in hot water when they decide they want to stop playing nice and mangle your economy.

          We trusted the US once, I can’t imagine we’d trust a trade bloc driven by Russia and China.

          IMO we need to engage hard with Europe and other nations that have something approximating functional democracies.

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                  Not nearly as significant for whole EU as Russia and China are for BRICS. And not nearly as poisonous.

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                    Germany’s unlimited support for Israel’s genocide is fine too, then? And their heavy persecution of Jewish anti-Zionists? And the way Germany (and pretty much every country) has put Syrian claims for asylum on hold, despite the country clearly still being unsafe, merely because they’re racist and hate refugees?

                    I gotta be honest, I don’t see how China is worse. Russia I understand, they’re militaristic and hostile, but what has China done that’s actually worse than the many sins of Europe? Colonialism wasn’t that long ago, and it never really ended.

                    China’s development is peaceful. Do you just hate them because they’re a one party state?