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Should be a wild four years.

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Mysterious Girlfriend X said:
When it happens, it won't happen all at once. Canada is going to break apart first, at which point the provinces will become part of America separately, either by joining or annexation. This will take several years to fully play out, probably taking longer than Trump's 2nd or even 3rd term.

The barely-populated northernmost provinces will probably be claimed by America right away. This will have such little impact on the lives of the few people living there that they may not even notice. Ontario and Quebec will probably to hold out the longest before they can no longer sustain themselves. When they finally become part of America, it will be at least 100 years before their resentment and bitterness subsides, and it will never fully go away.

Newfoundland will be a different story. Newfoundland is actually the only surviving remnant of Atlantis, which had once been home to a thriving civilization of space travelers. Instead of joining America, they will raise their ancient homeland from the sea and reclaim their cosmic birthright.
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this is verbatim what Whatifalthist says about this issue btw, canadian right wing is not nationalistic because they dont associate with the canadian national identity
 
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ForgedBlades said:
Oh. Interesting.

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Japan has a surprising amount of factories in America. I have a friend who has a Nintendo street pass thing from some Japanese Nintendo big wig who was probably visiting family who work at Iwata Bolt. There's a surprising amount of Japanese in SW Ohio because of it. Japan will be alright.
 
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Gregis said:
Lol, that optimism. "We're going to make a trillion dollars off tariffs, and companies are going to bring manufacturing to the US." I'd settle for an either/or, seems much more realistic, especially if we're also using them as a stick in negotiations.
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If the majority of American products return to being manufactured in the U.S. and we lower the current tariff plan to ones that still keep the tariffs fair compared to the robbery we were getting before, we will absolutely make a trillion off tariffs alone.
You have to realize, we were getting super ultra fucked while still giving these idiots in Europe and Asia subsidies. If we control our own manufacturing again, that will force more countries to import from us, and the tariffs will give us extra money on the stuff that we will always import. This is a win win for us and an evening of the playing field for them
 
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TrinityReformed said:
Vietnam, Taiwan, and Japan. We get those three and that's Asia done for all intents and purposes. The rest in that area would immediately scramble or capitulate in 24 hours.
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It's almost like he knew what he was doing. I'd add another quarter to the "Trump was right again" jar, but unfortunately it's overflowing.
 
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SpergioLeonne said:
What would it do to the line if we actually fought a war war against China instead of just cutting their tiny dicks off with money
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97% of the pharmaceuticals the US uses are made in China, so we'd have to fight a war without antibiotics basically. So, bad things. There's a lot of reasons why we need to bring critical industries back beyond green line going up.
 
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ForgedBlades said:
It's almost like he knew what he was doing. I'd add another quarter to the "Trump was right again" jar, but unfortunately it's overflowing.
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The ridiculous thing is everyone says and everyone knows that American wealth built China and has been continuing to build it, but they couldn’t figure out that there was a giant bluff to call and all of China’s neighbors hate them and will play ball with us

Now where’s Europe at? Hey Macron, you faggot, want to send another ship to Canada?
 
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More AWS-8Q Than You said:
97% of the pharmaceuticals the US uses are made in China, so we'd have to fight a war without antibiotics basically. So, bad things. There's a lot of reasons why we need to bring critical industries back beyond green line going up.
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I would say in retrospect that was a bad idea but no every thought that was stupid.
 
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Betonhaus said:
How worried/happy should we be about the stock market come Monday? will it just sort itself out again as rich people get bailed out for the 4th time since 2001?
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The stock market doesn't really mean anything to a person who doesn't own stocks. Maybe at one point it did, but nowadays it's all fake, gay, and doesn't represent the financial state of the everyman.
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More AWS-8Q Than You said:
97% of the pharmaceuticals the US uses are made in China, so we'd have to fight a war without antibiotics basically. So, bad things. There's a lot of reasons why we need to bring critical industries back beyond green line going up.
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Conclusion
The U.S. sources its pharmaceutical medications from a mix of domestic production (around 53% of APIs by value, less for finished generics) and imports, with India (40% of generics), China (6-12% of APIs, 6% of finished drugs), and Europe (notably Ireland at 22% of APIs) as key players. The supply chain’s complexity—especially India’s reliance on Chinese materials—means that while no single country dominates entirely, disruptions in China or India could significantly impact availability, particularly for generics and antibiotics. These percentages reflect a snapshot of a dynamic system, with ongoing efforts to onshore production potentially shifting the balance in the future.
 
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SpergioLeonne said:
Conclusion
The U.S. sources its pharmaceutical medications from a mix of domestic production (around 53% of APIs by value, less for finished generics) and imports, with India (40% of generics), China (6-12% of APIs, 6% of finished drugs), and Europe (notably Ireland at 22% of APIs) as key players. The supply chain’s complexity—especially India’s reliance on Chinese materials—means that while no single country dominates entirely, disruptions in China or India could significantly impact availability, particularly for generics and antibiotics. These percentages reflect a snapshot of a dynamic system, with ongoing efforts to onshore production potentially shifting the balance in the future.
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Yeah, it may not be the actual finished drugs, but also the precursors and such. God, imagine relying on India for medicine. How do you even trust that shit?
 
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Nefarious Elliot said:
this is verbatim what Whatifalthist says about this issue btw, canadian right wing is not nationalistic because they dont associate with the canadian national identity
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Whatifalthist is the greatest YouTuber philosopher to date.

It's also because Canadian national identity has become nothing after 1960s when Canada finally detached itself as a colony of Britain with its own set of constitution. Naturally, what was once a British heritage overnight became a Canadian heritage.

In search to fill it's hallow heart, Canada embraced the post modernists multicultural and mosaic identity as its prime definition of what it means to be Canadian.


And if course, if you are everything, you are nothing.

That's why Canada still struggles to define itself and it's heritage.

It's not a coincidence that all of Britain's former colonies embraced the same post modernists definition of its culture.

Australia, New Zealand, South Africa (lol) and more.
 
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