
i agree that our checks and balances are being weakened, but federal courts have been doing a lot to challenge trump, and they can do that because the judicial branch is independent. there would be no way to enforce the constitution either. scrapping our last line of defense is not the answer. you’d be ensuring that authoritarians or oligarchs wouldn’t even have to put up a fight to consolidate power
No, they’re not a proxy of the US. They’re independent but will obviously listen very closely to what we ask them since that’s how being allies works. They disagree with us over lots of stuff, such as the Iran “deal”. We used to be very close with Canada before Trump fucked up our relationship w them, but I wouldn’t call them a proxy of the US.