European Commission chief Ursula Von der Leyen pitched the idea of associate membership for Ottawa during her annual State of the Union speech on Wednesday, with Canadian PM Mark Carney in attendance.

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    This really parallels the situation with Russia not wanting Ukraine to join the EU. Are we the baddies? Sadly, effectively, yes the current US administration are the baddies.

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    Freedom from USA is a new fight in a world. I hope that in the end no country will be dependent on USA, ever!

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    That crazy old dotard, trump, thinks the world has to go through him. That’s what happens to your brain after being a degenerate pervert for so long.

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      Wouldnt it technically be the other way around, what with the humans (Neil’s character in particular) analagous to nazis?

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      It’s the abusive partner “logic” - when the other person refuses to be a victim, they’re “being hostile”.

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        Oh for sure. It’s the same logic applied when you beat your wife, so she leaves you for your neighbor. It’s obviously the neighbor who ruined your marriage. Wife as well, because a part of you knew she would cheat, because leaving you is obviously cheating, and that justifies the violence.

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    They need to offer it to Mexico too, just to really piss off Trump.

    Then we can start referring to North America as “Western Europe”. Just need someone to keep him distracted with a map and a sharpie

    Especially because it’ll divide the “patriots” from the white supremacists who want to be called “Western Europeans” for skin color and not European progressive policy.

    Like, it’s not hard to make a bunch of idiots start fighting each other.

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      Sheinbam has been a master at handling Trump, considering how fucked Mexico has always been by the USA.

      “Mexico . . . so far from God, so close to the USA”

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    He likes to throw threats around because his dementia makes him believe that if he says something and looks “threatening” enough everyone will obey but… what he’s failing to realise he is the American version of the Roman emperor Nero and soon after the empire fell and even though he is “in charge” of one of the most powerful countries in the world he doesn’t really have the power he believes he has.