GAC suggested reaching out to the Ministry of Finance "for a response to Minister Freeland’s remarks," despite the clear implications for Canadian foreign policy. Finance had no comment.
Reminds me of the time that Alberta fans of oil planned to use nuclear bombs to melt the tar out of the sand. Perhaps she thinks the Russians could save us the trouble of obtaining the necessary bombs.
There's nothing like playing with sanctions while climate chaos grows around us. A little bit of cooperation is what is needed. But no, we have to bow to the American bully and help poke the bear.
The Ukrainian Russian conflict has revealed a lot of things about us that have been a bit surprising. Imagine preferring Nazi collaborators to the Jewish victims that survived.........or imagining that Russia, who paid dearly to turn back Hitler's troops, and with that payment helped us win the war......has always been our natural enemy.
Seems to me we've been the victims of a capitalist propaganda that has set the world on fire....while demonizing a country that also paid dearly to remove the Czars that imagined it was okay for land owners to own the serfs who worked on their estates.
You don't have to be a communist to consider that just maybe other countries have the right to choose other economies....and that perhaps our demonization of Russia hides uncomfortable realities about ourselves. The alt right rising around the world just now didn't come out of nowhere....or spring full blown from the head of Zeus. It's been a carefully cultivated cult in the west since the days of Joe McCarthy.
Reminds me of the time that Alberta fans of oil planned to use nuclear bombs to melt the tar out of the sand. Perhaps she thinks the Russians could save us the trouble of obtaining the necessary bombs.
There's nothing like playing with sanctions while climate chaos grows around us. A little bit of cooperation is what is needed. But no, we have to bow to the American bully and help poke the bear.
The Ukrainian Russian conflict has revealed a lot of things about us that have been a bit surprising. Imagine preferring Nazi collaborators to the Jewish victims that survived.........or imagining that Russia, who paid dearly to turn back Hitler's troops, and with that payment helped us win the war......has always been our natural enemy.
Seems to me we've been the victims of a capitalist propaganda that has set the world on fire....while demonizing a country that also paid dearly to remove the Czars that imagined it was okay for land owners to own the serfs who worked on their estates.
You don't have to be a communist to consider that just maybe other countries have the right to choose other economies....and that perhaps our demonization of Russia hides uncomfortable realities about ourselves. The alt right rising around the world just now didn't come out of nowhere....or spring full blown from the head of Zeus. It's been a carefully cultivated cult in the west since the days of Joe McCarthy.