This is one of those talking points that if you took just a second to Google you’d see is just one of the many things Trump says that’s bullshit.

Canada spends both in actual dollars and % GDP about the same as Australia (another commonwealth nation) more than Spain, the Netherlands, Mexico (yet they don’t get these Trump talking points as the southern neighbor), Taiwan in actual dollars (a nation under threat) etc. Canada historically known as a peacekeeping nation and yet still spends 16th in the world in military spending.

The comparison is apples and oranges because the US significantly overspends and does so with the direct purpose of exerting power and pressure globally to serve their political and financial interests. NO ONE has “a leg to stand on” as a dollar for dollar comparison to the US because they’re spending a trillion dollars annually. They account for nearly 40% of the entire world military spending to the point that adding up the next like 9 in spending still doesn’t equal that. Now imagine if they cut that by 25% how much good that would do for the average American while still maintaining dominance in the military space globally.

Backwards country complaining almost no one else is backwards too.

Incoming tanking of the USD when (if?) it happens… Wild ride man…

Few points:

1. Depending what’s being fermented the quantity of methanol can be quite low. Most “sugar wash” type home distillations are quite low in methanol. Certain fruits can yield higher but this isn’t the cheap “moonshine” you’d find and even then it’s unlikely to poison someone in the volume present.

2. The distillation process doesn’t add methanol, nor ethanol, just concentrates it by boiling it off and leaving behind the higher boiling water etc. Drinking any fermented natural alcohol still results in the consumption of some methanol. In fact if you look up your local regulations, every country has an acceptable amount of methanol they allow in commercial products. Drinking a distilled product concentrates what is already present, so binge drinking it can result in more consumption of methanol as a by product, but doesn’t magically make some shots deadly.

3. Most home distillers err* on the side of caution and throw away their foreshots and heads “just in case” and also often take the end of a distillation run (tails) and keep those out of their hooch as well.

It’s not exactly “easy to fuck up” to the point you poison someone with methanol, though to be fair to you this is a pretty wide spread myth.