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‘Crimea is gone’: Trump adviser says focus must be on peace over regaining territory in Ukraine

A senior adviser to president-elect Donald Trump says the incoming administration will focus on achieving peace in the war in Ukraine rather than winning back territory.

Bryan Lanza, a Republican party strategist, told the BBC the Trump administration would ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his version of a “realistic vision for peace”.

“And if President Zelensky comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he’s not serious,” he said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", USA

David Polansky: Neither Canadian nor U.S. media understand America

The great novelist Saul Bellow once wrote: “I have developed a certain sympathy with Canada. It’s no easy thing to share a border with the USA. Canada’s chief entertainment — it has no choice — is to watch (from a gorgeous setting) what happens in our country. The disaster is that there is no other show.”

Unfortunately, despite countless hours of American media consumption, many Canadians understand their neighbor surprisingly poorly. The latest program to capture attention here, as elsewhere, was of course the U.S. general election, which Donald Trump won for a second time, much to the consternation of the pundit class in particular.

Random TDS …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2024, USA

Trump won the working-class vote and Poilievre’s Conservatives are well on the way to doing just that too

Like a lot of Canadians, I thought I knew quite a bit about the United States.

After all, I lived there for five years. I reported from almost half the states and travelled in most of the others. I was married to an American for 45 years and spent time with her family in Hawaii, California and Colorado. My son is a dual citizen. I even speak their language, more or less.

Obviously, I don’t know as much as I thought I did. I thought Kamala Harris had a good shot at winning on Tuesday. Donald Trump’s take-that victory came as a surprise — not so much that he won, but that the voters’ verdict was so decisive. I’m struggling to figure out why.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2024, USA

On Election Day, Biden-Harris Admin Quietly Waived Terrorism Sanctions on Palestinian Government, Docs Show

Just before Tuesday’s presidential election, the Biden-Harris administration quietly waived mandatory terrorism sanctions on the embattled Palestinian government—even as it determined that the government’s leaders are paying imprisoned terrorists and fomenting violence in breach of U.S. law.

The State Department, in a non-public notice to Congress, determined that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are not complying with agreements to curb terrorism against Israel and end the “pay-to-slay” program, which rewards imprisoned terrorists for committing acts of violence.

h/t patthedog

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA, WTF?

J.D. Tuccille: Kamala Harris and the Democrats deserved to lose

Americans woke up Wednesday to the sound of chardonnay being poured over Cheerios as the busybody class cried into its breakfast. It was a natural reaction for the many people not just surprised, but disappointed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House — and the ranks of Republicans riding to victory alongside him. Continuing a theme from the campaign, some on the losing side immediately accused voters of fascism, sexism, racism, and a variety of other very bad isms as the explanation for how they marked their ballots. And therein lies a clue to why this year’s election ended as it did.

Good comments in the X Thread below …

Yikes!

h/t testsubjectx1

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, USA

GOLDSTEIN: Trump will boost U.S. energy production while Trudeau cuts Canada’s

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory has thrown Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s green energy and climate change policies into chaos, because of the Liberal government’s failure to understand the importance of harmonizing Canada’s energy policies with those of the U.S.

No problem we’re in good hands with Joly on the job.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Tom Mulcair: Donald Trump has a long enemies list, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on it

Donald Trump’s election as president could have a profound effect on Canadian trade, manufacturing and immigration.

Trump’s icy relationship with Justin Trudeau could aggravate what already promises to be a very difficult situation for Canada, socially, economically and environmentally.

When Trump was last in power, he started making life much more difficult for asylum seekers in the United States. Seeing a political advantage in the contrast, Justin Trudeau famously tweeted #WelcometoCanada(opens in a new tab) in January, 2017.

OMG she breeds! Poor kids.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2024, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA, WTF?

Incurable TDS: “We are all victims,” Trump convinced the angry and disaffected who were searching for acceptance and validation

“When terrorist groups or cult leaders recruit new members, there are some commonalities they look for: isolation, past traumas, social, economic or mental depression. And, perhaps most importantly, a sense of victimhood.

… Women, the system, non-whites. Choose your supposed oppressor and make your vote count.

A CNN exit poll on Tuesday stated that nearly three-fourths of voters said they were “angry” with the way things are going in the United States. And if you want to burn it all down, who better to fight the system than the victim in chief, the anti-establishment messiah?”

The Star contributor needs an intervention. A normal person would not produce such drivel knowing Trump’s victory was earned in large part by winning over Hispanic, Black and women voters.

Who exactly is the brainwashed cultist?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2024, USA

Canada preparing for influx of U.S. migrants facing deportation after Trump’s victory

RCMP in Quebec say they have prepared contingency plans in case of an influx of migrants from the United States after Donald Trump’s victory, as Quebec Premier François Legault and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet raised fears about asylum claimants streaming into the province.

Mr. Legault warned about “turbulence” at the border, saying Wednesday that he expects a stream of asylum seekers from the U.S. and arguing that the capacity of Quebec to integrate new arrivals had already been exceeded.

Hmmm

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, Election 2024, USA

‘Canada will be absolutely fine’: Liberals try to reassure Canadians they are ready for Trump 2.0

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is prepared for a second Donald Trump presidency as questions swirl about how his government plans to handle the Republican president-elect’s incoming agenda.

From trade tariffs and the war in Ukraine, to defence spending and immigration, cabinet ministers exuded confidence on Wednesday that they are ready to handle whatever another Trump administration may bring.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Full Blown TDS: Trump’s election is a crisis like no other, not only for the U.S. but the world

Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.

The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA

One big winner of the U.S. election: Justin Trudeau

As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump piled-up the votes last night, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must have been pinching himself in anticipation. For months, Trudeau and his PMO palace guard will have followed the U.S. presidential race polls more closely than most. Despite the whispers to the Star’s Ottawa Bureau, I’m dubious that the Liberals actually preferred a Kamala Harris victory.

How so? Trump’s political rebirth presents our Prime Minister with a career-saving opportunity: Trudeau gets to spend the next eleven months playing the delicious role of Escamillo, the brave bullfighting Toreador from Bizet’s timeless opera Carmen.

It is shocking how our regime typists underestimate the contempt held for Trudeau by the great unwashed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, President Trump, USA

More Canadians think Poilievre would be a better match if Trump wins the U.S. election: poll

Canadians don’t have much of a say in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, but they will soon be able to choose a new leader for our country, since the next federal election must take place no later than October 2025. And how favourably Canadians view the next prime minister has a lot to do with who wins the election south of the border.

A new poll from Angus Reid found that more than a third of Canadians — 38 per cent — think Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre would be a better prime ministerial match for a second Donald Trump presidency, while a similar number — 37 per cent — think current leader Justin Trudeau would be better at dealing with President Kamala Harris.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

How Canada’s auto industry is ‘on the ballot’ in today’s U.S. presidential election

As voters decide who will take over the White House, there’s a feeling the person who becomes U.S. president will bring in policies that could shift Canada’s role in the automotive industry.

Promises from both the Republican and Democratic parties to protect vehicle manufacturing in the United States and skepticism of North America’s free trade agreement have been central themes to the extensive campaign stops in Michigan.

“The auto industry is on the ballot in 2024 like never before,” said Patrick Anderson, who runs a consultant firm in Michigan that works with manufacturers on both sides of the border.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA