"Bloc House Leader Alain Therrien on Thursday accused the minority Liberal government of using its confidence agreement with the #NDP to create 'a parallel Parliament with its own rules.'" #TrudeauCorruption#cdnpoli
"The RCMP said Mr. #Trudeau’s actions as Prime Minister 'were arguably more damaging to the government of Canada’s appearance of integrity' than any similar actions carried out by a lower-ranking government official." #cdnpoli#TrudeauCorruption
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Thread about how #Putin came to the decision to invade #Ukraine, about the current Russian military strategy and its political underpinnings, and about the consequences that may arise from such a strategy.
What this brilliant analysis overlooks is the state of the #Ukraine economy as the war drags on and the role this may play in bringing a negotiated solution. 1/
It is easy to sell #Ukraine arms through loans because it is feeding the arms and weapons industry in the West. 2/
The decision was likely last minute. Remember, in the couple months before Feb 24, #Putin was practising 'coercive diplomacy' (Hahn's words), but the West not only ignored it, along with #Ukraine, they increased provocations and insisted on #NATO's open door policy.
"By February, Washington & NATO had made it clear they had not intention of even considering an end to #NATO expansion to Ukraine, insisting on the inviolability of its ‘open door’ policy. This was occurring on a background of years of expanding NATO-Ukrainian mil cooperation"
Western sanctions on #Russia are impacting people beyond Russia. It is enough to have a connection with Russia in any form to be affected. In #Latvia "Local banks refuse to service the accounts of recipients of Russian pensions."
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When we look at the sanctions against #Russia, the 'us versus them' paradigm promoted by #Ukraine & the West does not hold. We've seen how much the #EU depends on Russian Gas, but we still have to realize how former Soviet republics are still part of the Soviet demographic space.
A gang of would-be-assassins based in Moscow, consisting of White Power and Neo Nazi elements, and taking orders from #Kiev, was planning on killing Russian media personalities. No word on this in Western media. natyliesbaldwin.com/2022/04/gilber… h/t @natyliesb
This is "a new phase in #Ukraine’s hybrid war that is being stage managed from Washington...the West has been very lucky till now that #Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has shown great forbearance by not responding in kind to the vicious war being waged by Washington"
This is what Russian panellists said on 'The Great Game', a Russian TV show. They also went on to say that, at a certain point, #Putin will respond in kind... #US#Ukraine
A "report from George Washington University that found extremists in the Ukrainian military were bragging about being trained by Canadians as part of Operation UNIFIER" #Ukraine#Azov#Canada#cdnpoli
"soldiers from the #Azov regiment, identified by patches on their clothing and other insignias, have participated in training with the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) as recently as 2020 at the western-backed Zolochiv training centre in Western #Ukraine." #cdnpoli
In the world we live in now, people decide what is genocide now and then, and in every country and in every political situation the definition is becoming more and more removed from the standard one (what was agreed upon previously). reuters.com/world/canada-l…#Ukraine#cdnpoli
But #Canada's parliament has become quite adept at using the accusation of genocide as a useless and toothless political tool. Last year they voted to declare China's treatment of Uighurs as genocide. bbc.com/news/world-us-…#cdnpoli
As long as it makes them feel good about themselves... Why not?