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demmiblue

(38,834 posts) Thu Oct 23, 2025, 06:53 AM Thursday

Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. [View all]

Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a countryâ€”more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to Americaâ€”have now become our vulnerabilitiesâ€¦
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-10-23T03:31:04.123Z

Irrevocable and previously unimaginable damage has been done to US relationships.
— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social) 2025-10-23T10:49:14.280Z

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Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. [View all] demmiblue Thursday OP

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