This isn’t a serious comparison. China has literally killed tens of millions. All of America’s alleged war crimes would not come anywhere close, not even within an order of magnitude. That’s leaving aside that the US and its technological innovation - which has mostly been shared with the rest of the world - has saved a lot more lives.
Lets put comparisons aside then. Trade partners want economic stability and consistency. The US cannot offer that, for the next four years. China has been authoritarian for decades, do you think it matters now? It doesn’t. Will they be consistent and rational? Certainly more than the US. The American Exceptionalism marketing falls on deaf ears.
Any other comparison of historic positions seems pretty pointless compared to the actual reality of 2025.
Reflect on how badly you have to have screwed up to make Canadians feel this way. They are looking at a brutal dictatorship and assessing it as a better option than the USA.
Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I imagine an actual order to attack Canada would not go over very well with the American military, or large parts of the American population
I'm not remotely worried about America invading my country and I don't think my government should be behaving as if that is likely to happen
While I agree that specific scenario is unlikely, the antagonism itself is a threat.
To illustrate: Imagine a person promises to climb through your window and kill you in your sleep, and you know they're a coward and that they physically can't scale 20 floors up the exterior of the apartment-building.
While that specific scenario isn't credible, you still need to be on-guard, since they could easily settle for finding your parked car and smashing all of the windows with a brick.
