Oh yeah it was 100% them being hostile. Canada was basically the easy target to take out frustrations they had with the crown. Didn't work though they mostly just cost thousands of lives and got the white house burned down.
I wouldn't say we've been their #1 supporter since the war of independence. On average over the last 300ish years, sure. They did invade us in 1812 though.
It's not a first world problem It's a capitalism problem. They probably bought a shit load of micro usb ports for dirt cheap to save money cause nobody wants to buy them for their products in 2025.
And if they make them change the results just in Belgium you can set up something simple like a pihole on a cheap VM with any random VPS and use the VM as your DNS server. Just make sure to host the VM somewhere that wont have the restrictions.
If we take that example to be true there are still issues with it. Just look at any of a dozen stories of people who had millions in crypto currency stolen from them. The police and feds will just sort of go "us not being able to do anything about it was the point."
What did he do that was inappropriate? Give them water?