Europe Has Just Become a More Dangerous Place

Just remember that Germany’s railway infrastructure is currently in too poor a state to transfer tanks and other military hardware across the country.

Last time military Keynesianism was back in fashion we were well down the road towards a world war. This time European rearmament is principally geared towards restructuring its ailing economy. Its advocates have decided that defense is a better focus for economic regeneration than investing in useless net zero technology to save the day.

As this post on X from the European Commission shows, they have become gung-ho military Keynesians.

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

The Democrats Descent From Ridiculousness to Farce

Just when it was time for Democrats, in the wake of their November 2024 shellacking, to reorient themselves from radical Bernie Sanders policies to a Clintonian brand of moderation, they decided to double down on crazy. James Carville led the charge when he put on a pseudo-medical hat and recently declared President Trump to be suffering from syphilis on the basis of his hand’s complexion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemocratic Party, USA

How the globalists dug their own grave

The liberal international order is crumbling under the weight of its own failures, hypocrisies and contradictions.

So this is how the so-called liberal international order ends. Not with a bang, but with a Trump.

That, at least, is how Western and especially European elites perceive the crumbling of the Western alliance and the decay of assorted international conventions – as the world-destroying handiwork of the disruptor-in-chief and his gang of vandals. In the US’s new tariff-charged trade wars with allies and, above all, in the seeming abandonment of Ukraine and perhaps even America’s fellow NATO members in Europe, they see a US administration determined to ‘destroy the rules-based world order’ and replace it with one based on ‘might is right’, as one liberal pundit has it. The Trump administration is not so much ushering in a ‘brave new world’, argues another, as ‘reverting to a dangerous old one’, dominated by great-power rivalries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

J.D. Tuccille: America steps down as the world’s policeman

Anybody clinging to the hope that the United States will continue its post-Second World War role as the world’s policeman without major changes was likely disabused of that notion during the tumultuous Feb. 28 White House meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Perhaps the most astonishing part of that clash was that Trump was — for him — relatively restrained. Vice-President J.D. Vance seemed determined to derail the meeting and Zelenskyy apparently came looking for a fight. In the end, it was clear that, going forward, the United States government will assist other countries on its own terms, and only if there’s something to be gained.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, EU, Europe, NATO, USA

Italian Schoolboy ‘Punished for Avoiding Rainbow Stairs’

Italian conservatives are demanding that schools stop promoting the LGBT agenda following the strange case of a 13-year-old boy who was disciplined for refusing to walk up a rainbow staircase.

The details of this ‘incident’ differ depending on who is relaying them. The boy’s parents claim he was incorrectly labeled “homophobic”—by the headteacher, no less—and that “other students are also uncomfortable going up those stairs, but they did not have the courage of my son.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Tariffs: The Sword of Sovereignty

Tariffs aren’t about hiding behind walls; they’re about wielding a sword, carving out space for self-reliance in a ruthless arena.

In the grand theater of 2025, where America’s economic stage is lit by the flickering glow of a manufacturing revival, tariffs have emerged as the unsung hero — or the villain du jour, depending on who’s clutching the pearls. President Trump’s latest salvo — 25 percent on Canada and Mexico, 10-20 percent on China — has reignited a debate that’s less about spreadsheets than sovereignty. For too long, we’ve played the globalist game, trading our industrial soul for cheap trinkets and hollow promises.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Jamie Sarkonak: Federal bureaucrat-activists strike again with ‘Understanding Islamophobia’ guide

The state’s job isn’t to manage the public perception of any one religious group. At least, that’s what is generally believed in Canada. But on Monday, that’s what the government did with the publication of “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia.”

The 60-page report, the latest creation of Amira Elghawaby, the federal appointee tasked with promoting Islam in Canada under the guise of “combatting Islamophobia,” is not just a guide to understanding a particular type of discrimination.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Forget America’s ‘Red Scare.’ Canada’s ‘Red, White, and Blue Scare’ Is Beyond Parody

“The Yanks are coming! The Yanks are coming!” The true North, strong and free, we stand on guard for thee. And don’t forget to vote for the Liberal Party.

The “Red Scare” of the 1950s wasn’t so much a “scare” as it was an excuse to politically punish liberals. During the Great Depression, a couple of million lefties “flirted” with communism as an answer to the vagaries of capitalism’s economic cycles. Misguided and hopelessly naive, they believed that the American experiment could be married to the Soviet experiment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Sounds like a good reason to ditch an EV and virtue signal at the same time!

I was happy to own and drive a Tesla — until Elon Musk went off the deep end. Now everything’s changed

Seeing a rust spot return to the door of my reliable Chevy Cruze’s was a sign that a new car was in my future. The Chevy was a practical, unsexy car purchase that I made because it had good gas mileage and I was supporting the Oshawa General Motors plant.

An electric vehicle made the most sense. I’d recently installed solar panels and was moving to be as carbon neutral as possible. Unfortunately, my car was dying during COVID and it was almost impossible to find an EV. The only available models were Teslas and the Chevy Bolt. One of those cars had solid reviews and great battery range, and the other lukewarm reviews and was being discontinued that year. So, a Tesla Model 3 it was. Even though I thought Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk was a bit odd, I pinched my nose and placed my order.

Smug, insufferable and so Canadian.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The Rise of Civil Terrorism

Radicals seek the demise of the West through organized criminal mayhem—here’s how to stop them.

Masked criminals attacked several Citibank locations in New York City one night last September. They brandished no guns and demanded no cash. Instead, they squeezed epoxy and cemented stickers on debit-card readers, damaged door locks, and vandalized windows with profanities and threats of future violence. Rather than keep their identities hidden, the marauders filmed their work and posted it to their enterprise’s Instagram page. “Unity of Fields,” the recently rebranded group formerly known as Palestine Action US—the new name comes from a Palestinian Islamic Jihad call for violence across the world—included a lengthy caption in the post, exhorting followers: “These actions are not hard to do. Please escalate for Palestine and humanity. We will not rest until Palestine is liberated from the river to the sea.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted interrorism, Terrorism - Domestic

Leader of Anti-Semitic Protests at Columbia University Detained by Immigration Authorities

Immigration officials have arrested the head of the group that organized anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, sending him to a detention center in New Jersey to await deportation after the State Department revoked his green card.

Graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, who was a lead negotiator in the 2024 Gaza Solidarity encampment that paralyzed the school last spring, had most recently been involved with the occupation of the library at Barnard College, one of Columbia’s undergraduate colleges.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"