It just so happens that self-interest is a universal and mutually exclusive interest.

What’s in your self interest is south of you. If anyone is gonna become a threat to North America we’er sitting on them

But if so remember Canada gets a fair share

No, the Obama administration attempted to push back against Israel, but they ended up getting rather aggressive, turning to the Federation, while simultaneously lobbying the American electorate via large-scale information campaigns with their sock-puppets.

Eh

it'd be really nice to make Cuba an ally, just saying again. literally legalized small business with one phone call. they're willing to capitulate. for fucks sake trump.

So, it went nowhere.

Thus, Obama capitulated and rewarded their behavior with the largest foreign aid package, in one transaction at least, we've ever given to a foreign nation.

What was it? 38 billion?

I think so

Canada has a South American country that ready to chug our mapley syrup but cause all they got is tourism we’re like nah

USA is Canada's Mexico

But, again, that also ties into keeping the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians on their toes throughout the region.

Let's not forget we were working to get the Russians kicked out of a port-access contract they were negotiating with Israel at the time.

Yup cause that’s where all our illegals come from guns drugs and “refugees”

So, it's a bit of a quid-pro-quo.

Or, was that the PRC negotiating for port access in Israel, at the time?

We should leave the Middle East to the communists

So they can have more power to artificially control the global supply of oil?

hope its the latter, because fuck me, the devil-deals we sign out of centry-old disputes with the long dead soviets are pissing me off

Or we should leave communism for the Middle-Easterners

We all know their regimes cannot allow for economic diversification.

Regardless of our position of whether to defend the world from communism or not, we can't even defend our own nation from the communists. I think that takes precedent.

That’ll make them more compliant show them the other side of the spectrum

That'd mean too much economic and social freedom for their people, thus they rely upon artificially shortening global oil supply to create an up-tick in revenue from their exports.

Namely, Russia.

More than half of their GDP continues to rely upon oil production. <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

We could focus on getting rid of our communists when we stay out of buissness that’s not our own

It was about 97% leading up to 9/11.

You were involved before 9/11

Big think. It's possible the reason why so many countries feel as if they can safely rely on the global oil markets is because the US is securing them. The perhaps unintended side effect of that commercial "pax americana" may be that the opportunity cost of developing energy self-sufficiency in most countries isn't adequate for them to shake free from the bonds of international oil.

Like when Dubai was like we got oil but didn’t know they had oil

Did I say we were involved before 9/11? Everyone knows we began funding the separatists fighting against the Communist, Soviet-puppet regime of Kabul in Afghanistan, nearly a year before the Soviets invaded on the false-pretense terrorists were flooding into the SU, Ram.

I said it as a statement

Build Sand Wall

As for the Communist threat, Menace, it isn't the same iteration as the past.

I really think the US should be helping Russia economically. Being the global hegemon is great and all, but it stifles innovation and progress

The threat we face in America is altruism.

You mujahideen funding idiots making your own killer

Literally training osama bin Ladin

Canada should annex russia