Political impacts of Ukraine war

[Czech_pivo]

Trump is going to have someone shot on Fifth Avenue
Trump will announce the annexation of Canada by Sunday March 9 at 2:00 AM EST.
Trump will incarcerate all members of Parliament
King Charles will rubber stamp
Gretsky is announced as interim Governor and waves from the upper levels of Congress

Damn that’s too black and depressing for me.

 

[Furniture]

Hey, but he'll get big concessions from Russia with that one, right? Am I right?

"More flexibility" is one thing, but going from "adversary worth poking" to "hey, let's hold off on the poking" is quite different than "ok, we'll play with your friends a bit differently."

Then again, as some say, sounds like the entertainment industry's to blame for painting USSR 2.0 as the bad guys way back when before POTUS47's time ....

https://twitter.com/x/status/1895842586645971433

She's what happens when history isn't considered an important subject in schools.

 

[RangerRay]

Terry Glavin knows what’s what.

Terry Glavin: Oligarchs celebrate, Ukraine suffers as Trump tramples world order

The U.S. president has explicitly declared his intention to realign Washington with Moscow

nationalpost.com

While Canadians have been obsessing over how many pipelines we might build to extricate ourselves from the chains of the “American security umbrella,” Trump is working feverishly not only to resuscitate Russia from its self-inflicted predicament. With the help of multibillionaire Elon Musk, all the American guardrails against oligarchy are being stripped away.

It’s not just funding for Ukraine that has been “paused.” All investigations and enforcement operations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which outlaws the paying of bribes to foreign officials, have been suspended. Trump’s Justice Department has gutted the enforcement capabilities under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The Foreign Influence Task Force has been dismantled, and the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section has been similarly hobbled. The Department of Justice has eliminated its National Security Division’s corporate enforcement unit.

Also gone: the Justice Department’s kleptocracy initiative, which has ferreted out billions of dollars in laundered and hidden money, mostly in mansions, yachts and airplanes owned by Putin’s corrupt cronies over the past 15 years.

In Canada, we’re entering what may soon begin to feel a bit like a time of war. In America, it’s the springtime of the oligarchs.

This is the kind of shit we accuse Trudeau of doing in the dark. This is happening in broad daylight.

 

[brihard]

Terry Glavin knows what’s what.

Terry Glavin: Oligarchs celebrate, Ukraine suffers as Trump tramples world order

The U.S. president has explicitly declared his intention to realign Washington with Moscow

nationalpost.com

This is the kind of shit we accuse Trudeau of doing in the dark. This is happening in broad daylight.

Ponder that. They gutted the foreign influence task force. They’re stripping the investigators needed to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The exact sorts of tools that we’re working to build here because of how badly needed they are throughout Western countries. And the U.S. administration is just burning them down… How can that jive with any credible claim that they take their national security seriously? And counterintelligence… Export control… The’re gutting America’s ability to use criminal law to protect national secrets, and sensitive technologies and intellectual property.

How in the hell can anyone hand-wave that away, and not see it as a danger to their national security and prosperity? They’re handing themselves over to long term Chinese infiltration and info extraction.

 

[JLB50]

Ponder that. They gutted the foreign influence task force. They’re stripping the investigators needed to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The exact sorts of tools that we’re working to build here because of how badly needed they are throughout Western countries. And the U.S. administration is just burning them down… How can that jive with any credible claim that they take their national security seriously? And counterintelligence… Export control… The’re gutting America’s ability to use criminal law to protect national secrets, and sensitive technologies and intellectual property.

How in the hell can anyone hand-wave that away, and not see it as a danger to their national security and prosperity? They’re handing themselves over to long term Chinese infiltration and info extraction.

It’s as if an entire country has gone mad. Yes, I know…almost as many people didn’t vote for Trump as voted for him. But where is the serious opposition to Traitor Trump? As Rosie Dimano remarked, why are we not hearing anything much from Biden, Busch, Clinton or Obama? Or from Bernie Sanders? Or Mitt Romney? Are they all afraid of getting whacked by a Trump fanatic if they say anything? In a mere few weeks Trump has managed to get quite a head start on dismantling democracy. I dread to think what may happen in the next year.

 

[mariomike]

Are they all afraid of getting whacked by a Trump fanatic if they say anything?

Maybe.

A few have come out against him, but several have come out in private and said that the Musk/MAGA faction has threatened them physically as well as financial with ruin if they vote against him.

 

[PrairieFella]

Maybe.

Well that's dystopian as shit.

 

[KevinB]

Well that's dystopian as shit.

Time to build a Silo (or 51…)

 

[PrairieFella]

Time to build a Silo (or 51…)

Gotta brush off that ole Canadian passport the way things are going haha

 

[KevinB]

Gotta brush off that ole Canadian passport the way things are going haha

Got to get my youngest 2 kids Canadian passports...

 

[PrairieFella]

Got to get my youngest 2 kids Canadian passports...

Honestly, a summer with Grandma/grandpa/uncle/auntie or whoever is still here might not be a bad idea. The ways things are looking, a summer of discontent (or rage) appears to be brewing. Might make 2020 look like a sit-in.

 

[Halifax Tar]

It’s as if an entire country has gone mad. Yes, I know…almost as many people didn’t vote for Trump as voted for him. But where is the serious opposition to Traitor Trump? As Rosie Dimano remarked, why are we not hearing anything much from Biden, Busch, Clinton or Obama? Or from Bernie Sanders? Or Mitt Romney? Are they all afraid of getting whacked by a Trump fanatic if they say anything? In a mere few weeks Trump has managed to get quite a head start on dismantling democracy. I dread to think what may happen in the next year.

Maybe the Dems have realized the way to beat Trump is to let him go for a while so the Country see what an imbecile he is.

The Dems also need to offer a viable alternative.

 

[JLB50]

Maybe the Dems have realized the way to beat Trump is to let him go for a while so the Country see what an imbecile he is.

The Dems also need to offer a viable alternative.

Frankly, I am not seeing any really promising leaders amongst the Democrats. Even if there was a talented leader and that person was a woman, the U.S. seems to be one of the few countries in the civilized world that doesn’t want a woman president. Sad.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Frankly, I am not seeing any really promising leaders amongst the Democrats. Even if there was a talented leader and that person was a woman, the U.S. seems to be one of the few countries in the civilized world that doesn’t want a woman president. Sad.

Give it time. This administration is is only 6 weeks old.

 

[QV]

Maybe the Dems have realized the way to beat Trump is to let him go for a while so the Country see what an imbecile he is.

The Dems also need to offer a viable alternative.

The risk is he is successful in key issues that matter to everyday Americans. Such as border security, for example.

You have to break a few eggs to make a cake.

 

[Good2Golf]

You have to break a few eggs to make a cake.

As too you must to make a slippery floor…

 

[Mills Bomb]

The risk is he is successful in key issues that matter to everyday Americans. Such as border security, for example.

You have to break a few eggs to make a cake.

If you were invited to Trump's speech yesterday, would you be one of the guys just cheering on everything he says? Serious question.

 

[QV]

For the purposes of this forum I’m happy to be the contrarian. An echo chamber is no fun at all.

 

[mariomike]

, the U.S. seems to be one of the few countries in the civilized world that doesn’t want a woman president.

My money is on Ivanka 2028.

 

[rmc_wannabe]

You have to break a few eggs to make a cake.

Breaking eggs? In this economy?!