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    Spain still supports the Western empire by being in it and benefiting from the exploitation of the periphery. The EU alone has done plenty to support the atrocities in the Middle East, and Spain has, at the very least, witnessed all of that (if not actively participated) and still sees fit to stay in the EU.

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        Full political and economic support of the US’s invasion? Not even ruling out Canadian military involvement in the future? Oh sorry, “regrettable” full support. Like that makes it okay. As a Canadian, Canada’s response to this has been disgusting. And especially ironic for a country whose sovereignty the US is also threatening, but I’m sure if you help the leopard hunt other prey they won’t turn around and eat your face after.

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            Canada and every other Western country should be raising hell over this and isolating the US for its unprovoked invasion of another country. Canada got so high and mighty about sanctioning Russia for Ukraine, what makes this different? God forbid you expect moral standards your country has been on a high horse about for the last several years to be equally applied to the West.

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                So are you saying Canada shouldn’t be sanctioning Russia because it hasn’t stopped the war in Ukraine? If not, what makes it okay for Canada to not sanction the US? How are the situations different where one warrants sanctioning yet me even suggesting sanctioning the other is a sign that I’m an idiot who needs to “wake up?” Also, spare me the “wake up” talk in general, we live in this shithole world because the most powerful countries in the world are in a cabal where they ignore each other’s atrocities while claiming to be a bastion of human rights. And no, I don’t think we can just magically solve it by talking it out, which is why I’m calling for sanctioning and economic/political isolation of the perpetrator because that is the step after talking. Canada and other Western governments went on record to say that part of the goal of sanctioning Russia is to make it as hard as possible for them to function in general, and by extension making the war effort difficult. Regardless of whether that works in practice, that’s not even a possibility being considered for one of the West’s own. Why?

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                The point isn’t that Carney can fix it, but that they’re not interested in actually opposing the US despite his recent speech on US imperialism. We get it, your economy is extremely tied to the US and you’d be hit hard if you actually took a stance, but Iran is being bombed because they took a stance, Venezuela got their president kidnapped for taking a stance, and so on. Not opposing imperialism is obviously the path of least resistance, but it doesn’t make it the path we should be taking, considering people die every day for this bs even in peacetime.

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      So it is not Britain, France, the US, the Soviet Union that destabilized the Middle East. It is the EU, that without an army, a common foreign policy and a common mandate that caused it.

      And Spain obviously, those evil apathetic monsters.