• @zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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    301 year ago

    Watch as Canada’s so-called allies do jack shit because relations with India, a rising power they can use to futilely attempt to encircle China, are clearly more important than relations with a close ally that’s fought for them, lost domestic industries for them, soured international relations for them, and has been their largest trading partner for decades.

    Seriously, what the fuck? The US has had an incredibly weak position on this ordeal that’s entirely unexpected from such a close ally and feels far more like something coming out of Germany or France - aligned by being part of the West but not in terms of actual interests. This is what the US has said publicly:

    “They are certainly serious allegations, and we believe in order to determine how credible they are, there needs to be a thorough investigation. Prime Minister Trudeau has called for that, and so we’ll see how Canada moves forward on this. It’s certainly well within their capacity to do this, and we urge India as well to participate and cooperate in that investigation. It is important to find out exactly what happened.”

    I’m sorry, but what the fuck? We’re talking about a country violating our territorial integrity to commit an assassination in a dense and developed suburb of one of our largest urban centers. This investigation has been going on for months.

    Our allies are leaving us out to dry solely because, despite our history of being their steadfast ally, we don’t provide them as much utility as this shiny new country that wasn’t relevant until it suddenly was because the Soviet Union collapsed, they pulled out of the Middle East, and they declared China to be the new big bad.

    • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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      We didn’t do shit when our own citizen was butchered on the order of a foreign head of state.

      Didn’t do shit when a foreign head of state effectively ordered his “bodyguards” to attack American citizens who were protesting on American soil.

      We’re barely doing shit about the currently growing coup.

    • Jerkface (any/all)
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      131 year ago

      We’re talking about a country violating our territorial integrity to commit an assassination in a dense and developed suburb of one of our largest urban centers.

      Exactly the reason it would be in poor taste for the USA to make a big stink about it. They do this all the fucking time! We need a more credible ally.

    • @phx@lemmy.ca
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      91 year ago

      What exactly do we expect them to do, bomb India?

      I’m guessing there’s a fair bit of behind-scenes stuff going on between Canada and allied countries, including how this evidence was gathered and provided in the first place.

        • @phx@lemmy.ca
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          41 year ago

          Let Modi and his supporters bury themselves in lies and bullshit while they organize the evidence then drop it on him like a fucking mountain, hopefully.

      • @hark@lemmy.world
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        61 year ago

        I dunno, sanctions? There are a lot of things that can be done in the vast gulf that exists between doing nothing and bombing another country.

          • @zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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            11 year ago

            The US hasn’t even made an indication that they disapprove of India’s actions. There’s no pretext for sanctions.

      • Jerkface (any/all)
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        31 year ago

        I think it came from treaties under which we have obligations to share our signals intelligence with other foreign states. They didn’t have a choice but to share the intelligence with us. It wasn’t a favour.

      • @zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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        21 year ago

        Ah yes, providing sources and then saying “aight that’s all, don’t let anyone know it’s us because we sure as hell don’t want this linked back to us”

        A true ally.