https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_s...
Unfortunately we are dependent on them. Hopefully, this will cause us to start weening ourselves off of a single predatory partner.
Wouldn't U.S. assistance during WWI, WWII, NORAD, Afghanistan, the 1917 Halifax Explosion, the 2008 financial crisis, the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfires, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other instances of disaster relief count as gestures of friendship?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_r...
"The United States has no closer and no more important friend than Canada ... And when we work together, as the closest of friends should, we only make each other stronger."
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/speeches-...
So fighting the Nazis was a favor and not a moral obligation? A war they didn't enter until Nazi-aligned Japan attacked?
> WWI
I believe the US didn't enter until the sinking of the Lusitania.
> Afghanistan
Isn't that a Canadian favor to the US?
> the 2008 financial crisis
Precipitated by American deregulation and excess? What a gift!
I'm not saying the US is entirely bad, but let's not confuse small kindnesses with friendship. The lack of backlash to Trump's comments I think speaks volumes to the condescension that lurked for years. Even the "loving" comments about being America's hat. Or jokes and charicatures about Canadians that would be consider racist about anyone else.
No, America was never Canada's friend. Sometimes an agreeable coworker.
I'm inclined to agree simply because "friend" is too gentle of a term. But, if that's true, then which country has America really been friends with? It seems like if not Canada, then there's none. That may be true, but at least initially surprising.
> America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
I don't know why the media is assenting to this. I had thought they had at least some level of independence from policymakers due to being owned by businesses with distinct interests, but I am having to question that assumption. It is not entirely clear what they know that I don't that explains how this can be carried out.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/472421/canada-britain-favored-r...
The Lusitania was sunk in 1915, the US only entered WWI in 1917, mostly because Germany had recommenced unrestricted submarine warfare and proposed an anti-US alliance to Mexico (the famous Zimmermann telegram).