Maybe. Russia currently has the upper hand sadly, but if Zelenskyy trades 30 day pause (appearance of victory for Trump and a short reprieve for UKR) for resuming intel sharing and some US aid that may be a net win for UKR. Really depends on what comes along with the deal - what has UKR agreed to give up to get this ceasefire?

steel mine

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Uhhhhhhh Meloni is also a medium-far right semi-crazy. She’s not sig heiling but she’s in the same league as AfD.

You are 1000% correct, half the continent lives in an entirely different reality. That’s why very visibly and loudly protesting and demonstrating at key. It FORCES the dissent into public view where it would otherwise be hidden.

Anything we can do to fight with their control of the narrative is deeply important.

I have no stance on the above article but this is a friendly reminder that the Ottawa Citizen is American billionaire owned, not Canadian! Double check anything they say 😀

You have the empathy of a snail.

“Your country is so small and weak you might as well have a mayor instead of a real government. We should and will annex you because we can”

“Why are you offended, that seems weird”

There’s also the fact that that money isn’t strictly money “wasted” - you can effectively double dip by using the funds to buy domestic or allied materials, essentially just circulating the money around your economy and creating defense-related jobs. Not that you wanna go full MIC but it’s not like Europe is gonna be flushing 800B down the drain.

He’s too early - we aren’t due for FDR until after the tariffs and mass deregulation cause the Great Depression after the collapse of the Gilded Age. We gotta defeat the American Nazi Party and eugenicists and THEN we get FDR, and then we need to make it through our isolationist period before the imperialist power across the Pacific wakes America once more.

Oh sorry 2020s not 1920s?

Thanks to the Liberal/NDP coalition government for improving some Canadians’ access to dental care!

But did he tho?

Sure, but it was still part of “what he did” with a coalition government. Rare Jagmeet W I’ll give you that.

$10 a day child care was pretty good. I’m a fan of the dental coverage too. The carbon tax actually reduced our emissions for the first time and was overall a net financial benefit for most Canadians.

He wasn’t amazing but he was not nearly the washout people act like he is.

Keep in mind he’s also making sure to publicly put the ball in Trump’s court regarding maintaining the relationship - especially obvious with his remark about “well of course they wouldn’t want to side with Russia”. Expressing optimism and openness publicly while maybe have reservations privately strikes me as a shrewd political stance.

For the record I do agree the US is cooked in an unrecoverable way. I’m quite confident the courts won’t be able to back up any orders they do give out. I’m just not sure a temporary pause for the court to be briefed is that point.

I’ll be very interested in seeing what comes of this in the next few days.

Roberts’ order does not resolve the underlying questions raised by the case. Rather, it imposed what’s known as an “administrative stay” to give the court a few days to review written arguments in the case. Roberts is the justice designated to handle emergency cases from the federal appeals court in Washington, DC.

I mean, not yet - we’ll see what happens during the discussion of the merits of the case.

We gotta stop with this purity thing - the right is winning because they’re willing to unify.

AP is taking 2 steps forward, we cannot be grilling our ideological allies over 1 step back because we don’t 100% approve of their headlines.

Oh we’re pretty united. When some dipshit from North Dakota says he can’t wait to show us why they have the 2nd amendment and “clear out the liberal wackos” at a professional engineering conference, it really ties the population together.

Thanks Obama (and Merkel)

If only there was a punishment for Crimea…

I’m sure you are having trouble keeping track, you keep putting words in my mouth and ignoring what I type.

Have a good day.