breakfastmtn
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100% this.
We have a real dilemma here.
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RIP Constable Johnstable
Interesting anecdote, I guess. Not really surprising that Putin would align with groups perceived as pro-Russian rather than anti-Russian. And that’s really the lens to view it through. If you think Russia’s goal is to advance Canadian conservatism, you’re wrong. Russia’s goal is to damage, weaken, and destroy its enemies. If they believe advancing the right works toward that, they’ll do that. If they thought that advancing the NDP would do it, they’d do it without hesitation and it wouldn’t be at all inconsistent with their support of conservatives. Russian propaganda is spread through both the far-right and far-left in Canada - and often they’re just amplifying domestic conflict to force leaders to deal with internal crises rather than looking outward.
They probably tend to favour right-wing politicians more often than left given the alignment of many current right-wing politicians, but Russia is opportunistic. Their goal is often to sow chaos and amplify internal conflict within a target country and they will attack conservatives if that is the best path to meet that goal. This article even mentions that they had previously targeted Harper and Bezan, who are both conservatives.
Either that or no tariffs but non-tariff measures stay in effect until the decision is permanent.
Sure. Just to be clear, I was defining the term, not describing Ford or Can/ON cons.
It basically means fiscal conservative, social liberal.
13·17 days agoThe auto industry already had a 30-day exemption from tariffs.
I’m sure this is an effort, in part at least, to drive a wedge between the democracies targeted by this administration. Don’t lose sight of who our enemies are. Viva Mexico! Death to America!
8·19 days agoMore than 120! I couldn’t make it through 5. No idea how people can listen to him talk.
Not at all a Liberal voter but crisis Trudeau is 🔥
I wonder if he’d be resigning if this happened earlier…
14·19 days agoMany actions are targeted at red states. But sometimes the weapons you have are the weapons you have.
And, really, whatever US internal politics are, this is an act of war by the US against Canada. I think few will lose sleep about making any American bleed right now. Hopefully it wakes those blue states up to start really taking action.
He said it in an interview with the WSJ.
This was published before he made those statements.
Sorry for messing around with this post. Lemmy.world has a weird bug(?) where posts with CBC articles won’t federate. Had to trick it.
Most frozen assets, by far, reside in Europe ($217 billion (€201 billion) to $230 billion (€210 billion)), with the United States holding just a small portion ($5 billion (€4.5 billion)) and Japan also holding some.
https://archive.is/OeuvL