Snowshadow 🇨🇦
🇺🇸 To All USians who are angry when Canadians push back at your "just joking" about joining or annexing Canada, or when you say, "Invasion of Canada will never happen" think about this...
Obviously we are not the only country to feel justified with defending ourselves because NATO military chiefs had a closed door security summit in Paris and the US was not invited. Japan and Australia were there.
Isaac Ji Kuo
@Snowshadow FWIW, I (a USAian), do take it seriously, and I don't get angry when Canadians push back at "just joking" or "invasion of Canada will never happen".
I'm old enough to remember when everyone with a brain knew that the invasion of Iraq was about oil. Canada also has oil.
Wiley Miller
@Snowshadow
I distinctly remember when Putin was massing troops on the Ukrainian border, all the "experts" were saying, "Oh, they're not going to invade. Putin's just a bluffing".
Trump is a Putin acolyte and has proved he's too stupid to foresee consequences to his idiotic impulses.
Snowshadow 🇨🇦
@Wileymiller I disagree. Trump is NOT stupid, not those around him. He is following Putin's playbook , for example , he is using Fox News to brainwash USians that Canada has been overrun by a
Mexican drug cartel; that we are poisoning USians with Fentanyl; that Canadians are physically attacking USians on US soil. This is how Putin convinced Russians Ukraine needed rescuing.
So please stop coming at me with the Trump is stupid line. I don't buy it, neither does the rest of the world.
franebleu
@Greengordon @adamvs1 @Snowshadow
"There was no representative from the United States, which is the *leaving member of NATO."
Greengordon
How long before we say the US WAS the leading member of NATO? I think Trump has been clear that the US will not come to the defense of 'some' NATO members.
"There was no representative from the United States, which is the leading member of NATO."
Adam van Sertima
“There was no representative from the United States, which is the leading member of NATO.
‘This is the moment when Europe must throw its full weight behind Ukraine, and itself,’Macron told the meeting, according to the Élysée”
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250311-european-nato-paris-ukraine
Snowshadow 🇨🇦
@Greengordon One article I read used the past tense. @adamvs1
Isaac Ji Kuo
@Snowshadow I'm not asking for a free pass. I only object to factual inaccuracy, which helps no one.
Snowshadow 🇨🇦
@isaackuo
If only a few people were out there how many were sitting in their homes watching TV.
Sorry but not one USian is getting a free pass on this.
There's a good chance we could be facing the same political situation this year and if that happens, I absolutely will never give weak excuses or try defend my fellow Canadians. . I will say, We fucked up. I am sorry" and have the grace to leave it at that.
Snowshadow 🇨🇦
@isaackuo
oil and critical minerals, farmland, water, forests.
So if you are old enough to remember Iraq, and what a mess that turned into, I hope you are also thinking about how inaction on the part of USians made it all possible. You all sat and watched it unfold on your tvs.
Isaac Ji Kuo
@Snowshadow Uhh ... there were protests in the streets. I'm not saying it was enough - obviously it wasn't enough. But it's plain inaccurate to say, "You all sat and watched it unfold on your tvs."
I'm not going to say that "not all Americans" is an excuse. Collectively, we didn't do enough.
But I'm not going to just go along with blanket generalizations that are plainly anti-factual.
Timjan
@Snowshadow
"Is Trump Eyeing Canada,
The Way That Putin Is Eyeing Ukraine?"
Snowshadow 🇨🇦
@timjan Exactly the same. And setting up USians to believe we need rescuing like Putin did re: Ukraine.
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