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Europe and Canada Are Like the Kids in an Ugly Divorce
The Atlantic ^ | February 18, 2026 | Simon Shuster and Vivian Salama

Posted on 02/21/2026 11:45:34 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

The urge to visit Beijing has gotten stronger lately among allies of the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who referred to China last year as his country’s biggest security threat, made the trip last month, as did his British counterpart, Keir Starmer.

Next week, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who heads the largest economy in Europe, plans to meet with Xi Jinping during a three-day visit packed with discussions of security and trade.

In a speech this past weekend at the Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. “will always be a child of Europe.” But the geopolitical divide between the U.S. and China has made Canadians and Europeans look more like the children in a bad divorce, shuttling between two feuding parents, pleasing neither, and risking retaliation if they take sides.

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1 posted on 02/21/2026 11:45:34 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Which one is the woman?


2 posted on 02/21/2026 11:47:14 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The authors - Shuster; and Salama, at left in the second photo.

3 posted on 02/21/2026 11:58:07 AM PST by simpson96
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To: MinorityRepublican

Canada is actually Britain’s bastard child.


4 posted on 02/21/2026 12:26:03 PM PST by kaktuskid
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To: MinorityRepublican

Cajoling America into attacking Russia has soured the relationship.


5 posted on 02/21/2026 12:41:55 PM PST by IDFbunny (Crimea was never Ukraine.)
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To: IDFbunny
We should have pulled out of NATO decades ago because it was in the interest of EU for Ukraine to join NATO.

But at the same time it wasn't really in our interest. So we are no longer aligned especially now that the Cold War is over.

6 posted on 02/21/2026 12:52:07 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: kaktuskid

Canada and the UK are run by the World Enslavement Forum so they’ll do the same insane things


7 posted on 02/21/2026 1:42:57 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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