U.S. threats to annex Canada 'dangerous,' Zelenskyy says

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AI GeneratedThe speaker discusses the critical importance of maintaining stable relationships between neighboring countries, using the strained dynamics between the U.S. and Canada as a cautionary example. They argue that neighbors must remain strategic partners and maintain constructive dialogue to avoid the dangers associated with regional instability.
I'm curious about your perspective, because Canada is an ally, certainly the United States
is an ally.
You probably need more from both countries, but you're arriving at a time when the relationship
between the two countries is strained.
You know that there is a perception that the U.S. President is trying to break this country
economically, the 51st state stuff.
What is it like to watch that from afar?
Strange, because I think that neighbors have to be...
It's very dangerous that there are some problems between neighbors.
And we are the example, you know, in action, yes?
So this is very...
When people know each other, when they think that they are friends for all the period of
time, for all the time, because they are neighbors, they have to secure their borders, they have
to be friends, they have to be strategic partners against anybody.
Not even against, for yourself, for themselves, yes.
And it's always very dangerous, because the neighbors are, from one side they are friends,
but from other side they can be enemies, like in our situation with Russia.
So that's why I think that the United States and Canada will have dialogue from, I mean,
this very constructive dialogue.
They have to have it.
It's very dangerous.
No choice, yeah.
