• kbin_space_program@kbin.run
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    4 months ago

    As I recall: Mitt Romney was the first public person who really came out and called Russia a threat in the US in the 2011/2012 election cycle. Which at the time he was laughed at because Russia was still seen as an ally and the major threat was China.

    Now they are both openly hostile and Germany is cozying up to fucking China.

    Germany: just do what the rest of the west (and China) does and bribe the Canadian government to hand over raw resources to you.

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      4 months ago

      Germany: just do what the rest of the west (and China) does and bribe the Canadian government to hand over raw resources to you.

      Exactly what we’re doing. Also Namibia, besides having (as Canada) excellent conditions for renewable energy, being (as Canada) a proper democracy, they’re also an ex-colony so we’re using the opportunity to help bootstrap their local energy infrastructure to industrialised levels (it’s currently hit and miss), also, they’ll have absolute energy independence. Also stuff like Africa’s first hydrogen-based steel furnance. Which would make Namibia a more developed economy than Australia who somehow are still exporting raw ore.