Scotland starts renewed case for independence

Re:Scotland starts renewed case for independence by waffleiron on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:44AM (#31737677)

>One's influence I'd say is clearly malign, the other often at least tries to be mutually beneficial.

A Chinese citizen would say the exact same thing, countries switched out. Both countries do whatever is in their own best interest, it's naive to pretend otherwise. Now what's in the U.S. best interest might have historically been more aligned with the EU, but that doesn't mean it stays that way.

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Re:Scotland starts renewed case for independence by atlasunshrugged on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:48AM (#31737719)

Sure they would, and one country is actively committing genocide and one isn't. I'd say objectively there are differences in the actions a nation takes in its own interest. If there really were no constraints on actions a nation would take this would be a much darker world and I think the U.S. would have taken much more coercive actions against the EU in preferential trade policy and beyond long ago.

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