(This post is for non-Americans.) Folks, it's time to stop agonising over everything the Americans do, and focus instead on building a world that works without them. Let's accept that we can no longer rely on them for anything: trade, global security, aid, medical research, a model of democracy, tech innovation … anything.
Even if the U.S. somehow achieves peaceful democratic transfers of power in 2026 and 2028 — and there are many good Americans fighting hard for that — there''ll be years or decades of cleaning up and rebuilding shattered democratic institutions from the ground up. Write them out of the global script for now and move on.
@david_megginson Indeed we need to move away from reliance on the US.
May I guess you aren't suggesting we should ignore their political moves?
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We have been moving away from trading with the US.
Negotiations with other countries were underway long before Trudeau stepped down, so I doubt it will take decades before we can avoid trade with the US.
I doubt the connection will ever be entirely cut off, but I can envision a dramatic decline in trade to the point of it becoming negligible.
I agree about provincial barriers and those are going down.
As for the rest, China seems to have no problem transporting exports.
Just because something is less convenient, or a situation becomes more of a challenge, doesn't mean it is unworkable, instead it requires a change in mindset, and we need to use imagination and innovation.
Canada has a large pool of intelligent and resourceful people, our government should be drawing from it.
Edited for typos...always typos!🤦
Just in time freight services have a detrimental impact on the climate, are wasteful of resources, and add stress on employees in an already over-stressed workforce.
I prefer to see us move away from thinking we need instant access to everything...we do not.
(Before retiring, I worked in the industry)
@TrueNorthSpice Yeah I see Just-in-Time access similar to American online storage space (#Amazon S3 #Azure etc) which all the back-ends are running on!
Reducing #BigTech or 'instant' types of usage is hard for #tech people and eventually us all
unless we use it for actually socialising online !
