His creeping insanity has finally erupted
“He’s lost his fucking mind.” It’s Monday night, and I’m speaking to my friend, the American-Ukrainian author Vladislav Davidzon. We have both just watched Vladimir Putin’s televised speech from the Kremlin, and he — like Putin — is no longer mincing words. He lives in Ukraine; he can no longer afford to.
Now that we have experienced what our prime minister would undoubtedly classify as “the most important emergency since 1945” (following an election he described as such), Canadians are breathing a sigh of relief.
The government conceived of the “Bouncy Castles Revolt,” as the insurrection will be known in future histories, as a perfect cauldron of hate. Justin Trudeau, on Feb. 1, recorded in a tweet that, “Today in the House, Members of Parliament unanimously condemned the antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, homophobia, and transphobia that we’ve seen on display in Ottawa over the past number of days.”
The news came as a surprise to many in Beijing. Barely 24 hours ago, Chinese pundits predicted that a war in Ukraine was not inevitable. In New York, as Russia geared up for a full-on assault on its neighbour, China’s UN envoy, Zhang Jun, urged in a security council meeting that “the door to a peaceful solution to the Ukraine issue is not fully shut, nor should it be shut”.
But when people in Kyiv woke up to sound of bombs in what the Nato chief called a “deliberate, cold-blooded” invasion, the door had clearly been closed. China’s state media, however, insisted it was a “special military action” by Russia. Quoting Vladimir Putin, China’s central television tweeted: “Russia was left with no other choice.”
This guy is good to follow on Twitter.
A destroyed group of Rosgvardia vehicles. The use of Rosgvardia and riot police units in this operation has thus far been puzzling to say the least. https://t.co/Gc0yyviIU0
— Michael Kofman (@KofmanMichael) February 26, 2022
Scenes of urban warfare in Melitopol. https://t.co/etLIRuI8VD
— Michael Kofman (@KofmanMichael) February 26, 2022
A letter penned by a group of hereditary leaders of an indigenous tribe in Canada’s British Columbia region at the center of a series of domestic terrorism attacks on a natural gas production site has said that the violence is likely being stoked by outside radicals sustaining themselves via “donation campaigns.”
The most notable and recent event in the chain was the Feb. 17 assault on the Coastal GasLink (CGL) natural gas production site in British Columbia by approximately 20 people, many wielding axes.
AnnaLynne McCord’s ‘Mr President Putin’ poem is all too typical of liberal self-indulgence.
If I was your mother, you would have been so loved, held in the arms of joyous light… I can’t imagine the stain, the soul-stealing pain that the little boy you must have seen and believed and the formulation of thought quickly taught that you lived in a cruel, unjust world… Oh dear Mr President Putin.’
Having been overseas last week, it is my task to cover in this column both the postmortem on the truckers movement and events in Ukraine. As I wrote here two weeks ago, the truckers were right to be outraged at the escalated requirement for the 10 per cent or so who are unvaccinated to quarantine for two weeks when returning from the United States. That provision is oppressive and malicious. The truckers also acted for millions of other Canadians in rising up against the compulsive and imperishable authoritarianism of the substantially failed Canadian COVID regime and the smug acceptance of it by much of the media.
The news cycle today is dominated by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the cognitive absence of the American president. Canada has been all but forgotten, but the situation in this country threatens to destabilize a Western democracy that shares a border with the U.S. It still requires to be addressed.
I saw it so you have to pic.twitter.com/SyVqFY342b
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 24, 2022
Berlin needs to let Vladimir Putin know that it can resist his gas supplies and that it is willing to pay more for NATO’s military defense.
“Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came?” went a 1960s antiwar slogan. Stell Dir vor, es ist Krieg, und Keiner geht hin is the German version. It’s still popular in Germany, a country of peaceniks. Germans’ defeat in World War II and subsequent reeducation by the Allies stripped them of any enthusiasm for war or military things.
There are now 305,200 more government jobs across Canada than there were pre-pandemic
Politicians and government decision-makers are financially divorced from the Canadians they’re supposed to represent — and it shows.
… Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland claims Canada has “more than recovered lost jobs” during the pandemic. But whose jobs have been recovered?
There are now 305,200 more government jobs across Canada than there were pre-pandemic, but 272,800 fewer jobs outside of government.
Then there’s the three-decades-high inflation.
This is why Ottawa was freaked out by the Truckers. Our predator class public servants came face to face with the peons they rob and it scared them.
The EU, US and their allies have agreed to cut off a number of Russian banks from the main international payment system, Swift.
“This is intended to cut off these institutions from international financial flows, which will massively restrict their global operations,” a German government spokesman said.
Russia is heavily reliant on the Swift system for its oil and gas exports.
But the move could also harm Western businesses doing business with Russia.
Not one but two new polls out Friday show the president’s approval rating hitting a new low.
Maybe this is one reason… Even as Russian tanks roll toward Kyiv, the US is still buying a lot of Russian oil
When Iran’s regime is ecstatic about a deal, it should send a warning signal to the US and its allies. That the ruling mullahs are asking the Biden administration for guarantees that the US will never be able to leave the new nuclear deal, even after President Joe Biden leaves office, should signal that the mullahs want this deal badly and set off all sorts of alarms.
A nuclear deal with the Iranian regime is a win for the Islamic Republic. A deal would have several advantages for Tehran’s regime. First, a nuclear deal would boost Iran’s ballistic missile program as it did right after the 2015 deal, when Tehran promptly accelerated its missile development and tests.
It’s been over seven years since an Indigenous man from Regina was wrongfully arrested with excessive force.
On Dec. 10, 2014, Simon Moccasin experienced what he calls “racism within a system” after officers of the Regina Police Service (RPS) stopped him while he was walking near the casino.
The officers were searching for a robbery suspect and even though Moccasin said he did not match the description, he was arrested anyway.
