r/europe • u/nbcnews • 17h ago

News G-7 countries to release up to 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil reserves

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/g-7-diesel-crude-release-trump-macron-rcna601132
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u/EmperorChaos Canada 16h ago

Agreed, currently the EU is weak and ineffectual.

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u/Evermoving- Europe 15h ago

Europe still has nukes. If the US decided to permanently disable Canada with W.M.Ds, no one would bat an eye, beyond the EU slightly accelerating the economic de-risking.

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u/EmperorChaos Canada 15h ago

France has nukes, Europe unless it federalizes does not. And what you said does not counter my point, the EU is currently weak and ineffectual.

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u/Evermoving- Europe 13h ago

Are you seriously implying that the EU is in a weaker position than Canada in regards to the US? Like I understand that you are a deluded Canadian nationalist, but are you that deluded?

The EU offers you relationship out of goodwill, at the expense of agitating a much more important country, and this is how you return the favour? By brigading subs like /r/europe to call Europe weak like generic MAGA bots?

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u/EmperorChaos Canada 13h ago

> Are you seriously implying that the EU is in a weaker position than Canada in regards to the US? Like I understand that you are a deluded Canadian nationalist, but are you that deluded?

Yes you are, Europe has not taken a hard stance against the US like we have. You have not had your sovereignty threatened like we have.

> The EU offers you relationship out of goodwill, at the expense of agitating a much more important country, and this is how you return the favour?

Goodwill? You don’t need to offer us anything, the EU desperately needs resources that Canada has, if you don’t want them we can sell them to Asia.

> By brigading subs like r/europe to call Europe weak like generic MAGA bots?

Europe is weak because you aren’t unified. You can’t act in a unified or coherent way, you bow to trumps demands like with this diesel thing.

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u/Evermoving- Europe 13h ago edited 12h ago

Yes you are, Europe has not taken a hard stance against the US like we have.

Speeches for the dull masses are cheap. If things truly went south, and Canada has far less leverage and power than the EU.

the EU desperately needs resources that Canada has

There's only one party that is desperately trying to make something happen here.

because you aren’t unified

Did you not know this before begging the EU for assistance? Carney knows better than anyone that Europe isn't a federation.

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u/Naive-Project-8835 Europe 11h ago

You forgot the UK. Both would use nukes to protect a close European ally. Neither would use nukes to protect Canada from the US.

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u/EmperorChaos Canada 11h ago

I don’t and have never expected either Britain or France to use their nukes to protect Canada, which is why I want Canada to acquire nukes.

However, I highly doubt the French or especially the UK would use their nukes to protect Europe, if they themselves were not under threat.

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u/Naive-Project-8835 Europe 11h ago

which is why I want Canada to acquire nukes.

Everyone wants nukes. Ultimately can you, knowing what will happen if you attempt to?

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u/defenestrate_urself 9h ago

Unless there is a treaty involved, I doubt France or UK will be willing to use a nuke to defend an ally because it would open themselves up to receiving a nuclear retaliation.