Delegating your security to any other country, like much of the world has done for decades with the US, is never a good idea. Europe did this after WW2 because so much of it was destroyed by war. Allowing the US to continue as their sugar daddy for so long is at least partially on them. Canada is feeling the sting of this too right now.

If a country can’t provide for most of its own needs in terms of goods, services and energy, it has no real sovereignty.

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Immigration is a problem whether people want to admit it or not. It completely disrupts a country’s economic balance and social contract. Immigrants absorb housing, jobs and other resources like education and healthcare that they have not paid into for their entire lifetimes like the natives have. These items just so happen to be the things in perpetual shortage around the world. We need to drastically rethink how immigrants are integrated into societies. We also need to understand that things like AfD, Trump and other undesirables are a natural consequence of extreme policy choices created by increasingly non-moderate political climates.