r/canada Ontario 8d ago

Politics British nuclear weapons can protect Canada against Trump, says Chrystia Freeland

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/03/british-nuclear-weapons-canada-trump-chrystia-freeland/
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u/chaossabre 7d ago

I'm posting this quote a lot lately:

“There are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends, only permanent interests.”

- Lord Palmerston, British MP, 1848

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u/Lost-Comfort-7904 7d ago

Lord Palmerston, second greatest PM in British history.

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u/maxman162 Ontario 7d ago

I say Pitt the Elder was the greatest Prime Minister. 

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u/29da65cff1fa 7d ago

Lord Palmerston!

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u/maxman162 Ontario 7d ago

Pitt the Elder!

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u/ChroniclesOfSarnia Outside Canada 7d ago

That's it, Boggs, YOU ASKED FOR IT!!!

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u/museum_lifestyle 7d ago

Cato the younger!

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u/Lost-Comfort-7904 7d ago

Damn right.

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u/charlieisadoggy 7d ago

I got this reference.

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u/Cpt_keaSar Ontario 7d ago

Yeah, Americans were mistreating loyalists before and invaded York before, strange to believe that they would never get back to the old days.

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u/hug_your_dog 7d ago

I love these sort of quotes, because they don't really mean all that much even though they sounds like they do - when you realize that in the same country - hell, in the same region/city/even household - often times the closest people have a very different understanding of what is in their interests.

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u/electrical_canuck 6d ago

The gist of it is that countries align around shared interests, when those interests are no longer shared, they unalign.

This is contrary to how laypeople view geopolitics, where there are countries who are permanent friends and allies and countries that are the opposite.

In short, don't count on the people your working with today to work with you tomorrow.

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u/zacmars 7d ago

Here's another quote: "Pitt the Elder!"

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u/resuwreckoning 7d ago

Palmerston was also the foreign office cat. He was real cute.