Dougie93

the actual term which Robert McNamara coined was Mutual Vulnerability the problem is, it only works if both sides rid themselves of all tactical nuclear weapons tactical meaning ; to fight strategic nuclear weapons are designed to never be used, simply to maintain Mutual Vulnerability if however both sides maintain arsenals of tactical nuclear weapons, which they do that opens the way for a theatre thermonuclear war below the strategic level so while it remains extremely unlikely that there would be an interpolar exchange of ICBMs the real threat is that tactical nuclear weapons would be used in theatre, particularly against proxies and then that spirals out of control into a global conflagration an example would be Poland entering the war on the side of Ukraine, tipping the balance then the Russians employ tactical nuclear weapons against Poland the result is World War Three perhaps, but not by all sides launching their ICBMs at once

go back a bit further and you will find that Khrushchev was doing everything he could to get JFK elected https://time.com/4851449/trump-jr-russian-kennedy-history/ "when the Democrats do it it's legal"

Dictator was an ancient Roman office it simply means that an official is appointed to deal with an emergency for the duration of so when the Prime Minister invokes the Emergancies Act, that is a de jure dictatorship I believe that all the institutions in Canada are compromised by ideological capture the reasons for the Truckers being dealt with harshly are ideological if it was a left wing protest, that would be allowed to run amok but a right wing protest will be attacked with paramilitary force I don't view it as a defeat however just like any leftist would view such a reaction ; provoking the ruling class into showing their fangs is a win

not necessarily most dictatorships are simply the tyranny of the majority and the principle arm against dissent is ongoing harassment even in Communist China, most protesters are subjected to Social Credit internal exile rather than imprisonment

at the end of the day, the MAGA base does not want to fight Russia for Ukraine and views Zelesnky as a bad actor essentially, Ukraine became the cause celebre of the international Woke Progressive left now Ukraine is simply caught in the inevitable Go Woke Go Broke effect therein

attempts to bypass the First Nations are not only likely to be stopped by the courts but even if not, the First Nations are willing to engage in insurgency which will chase investment away what politicians in Canada are want to have to deploy the army to one Oka Crisis after the next ? particularly when Canada has practically dismantled its own army at this juncture

based on your logic, almost one third of the population is open to the idea which would be a shockingly high percentage in the Canada I grew up in based on the four decades since Canada became the Multicultural Post National State the direction is clear ; increasing Americanization with each generation 43% of Canadians under forty desire American citizenship already once the Boomers die off, it is on trajectory to become the majority I ask every Zoomer I meet ; what say you ? They are hardly patriotic for Canada, they mostly just shrug I would acknowledge that Loyalist British North America is gone and its never coming back yet it has not been replaced by a Republic of Canada it has simply been replaced by a void, which is inevitably being filled by America Americanized Canadians are overwhelmingly Democrats rather than Republicans but they are already de facto Americans none the less Americanized Canadians no longer believe in their own constitution & political system Canadians no longer defend nor uphold their Head of State Canadians no longer practice Westminster Parliamentary Supremacy Canadians already vote as if the Premiers are Governors and the Prime Minister is a President Canadians no longer have their own accents nor dialect, they speak like Americans anybody who aspires to greatness in Canada, is aiming for American fame & fortune the millions of mostly Asian immigrants to Canada can't tell the difference nor do they care Canada is simply fading away, becoming more irrelevant all the time Manifest Destiny is not something which Donald Trump is imposing it's simply a natural evolution in progress at this point

the Canada Act 1982 ; is the Post National State ; good luck with that /shrugs

I don't spend any time in the Mess now that is for the young soldiers, let them have their own adventures I only meet with the brothers at regimental funerals now it's bittersweet, one of the greatest men you ever knew is lying there in his casket yet all your regimental brothers have gathered round to honour him Corporals (ret.) mingling with Brigadier Generals (ret.) only my wife ranks above these men, the regimental family is my fatherland

one never leaves the regiment, except feet first in a pine box

I was born under the British North America Act 1867 Elizabeth Windsor my Queen & Empress I have no fealty whatsoever to a lunatic leftist Post National State People's Republic which is in essence propagating Bolshevism as its state religion the Laurentian Elite are usurpers ; fit for the yardarm God save the King from these pretenders to the throne Bydand

HM Dominion of Canada : is British North America

the Dems are hardly friends to the Canadian oil sands they might have to cave to American fracking, but they are not the slightest bit beholden to Canadian heavy crude thinking that the Democrats are Canada's allies is obviously naive at the end of the day, Canadians are foreigners in America Americans say they like Canadians, but that's only because Americans don't know Canada well but it doesn't matter even if Americans like Canadians when it comes to business, Americans don't give a f*ck about Canadians if America can profit in Canada, great but America will throw Canada under the bus at the drop of a hat and sleep like a baby after that's Republicans & Democrats both furthermore, after the Democrats have now lost to Trump twice in humiliating fashion I would expect the Democrats to become much more Trumpy themselves from now on America First Democrats is baked into the cake ; just win, baby

nobody on this forum takes anything you say seriously you are a laughing stock here, because you are an Evangelical you apparently have Stockholm Syndrome for a godless atheist socialist Canada which despises you

ultimately, he is beholden to Wall Street Trump evaluates everything based on how the market is reacting on Wall Street and like imposing tariffs on the auto industry ? that would blow him up on the first day, and Wall Street is letting him know so I think it's the opposite, it's actually Trump who will have to give in, when other countries call his bluff

if Canadians are want to throw themselves under the bus for committing " Genocide by the UN definition " and then outlaw any dissent to that as being "Residential School Denialism" I'll just fall back upon my American citizenship ; Canada is too crazy to be affiliated with, what a bunch of kooks

Trump is trying to end the war between Christians in Ukraine Trump is trying to end the war between Jews & Muslims in the Holy Land why would the Nazarene oppose that ? you don't think the Saviour would make whatever deal was necessary to stop these wars ? it's not like He was naive, He could have raised another revolt against the Romans, but what did He do instead ?

no need, since Canada is ruled by the same British Crown

why would an Evangelical oppose freeing Canada from godless atheist socialism ? what is Trump threatening to do ? all he said was he would cherish Canada as the 51st State and if Canada is unable to compete head to head with America, that would be a solution therein

that's Justin Trudeau I'm an Ulster Scots bot serving William Prince of Orange

indeed. the whole "Indigenous Reconciliation" project is just more of the same paternalistic Victorian do gooderism run amok Canadians can insist that they are not British anymore but notice how all the British Colonials are following the same script ? it's exactly the same in Australia & New Zealand trying to save the "Aboriginals" from themselves ; the very essence of the Victorian British Empire it's a travesty for the ignorant Canadian left to tear Queen Victoria down into the muck since Victoria Hanover was the original Canadian leftist ; Christian Socialist if you brought her back to life as a private citizen, she would vote for the NDP all the way she'd be in downtown Toronto having tea with Olivia Chow & Margaret Atwood, Sankofa Square ? Quite sure she'd be all for that sort of thing Indigenous land acknowledgements ? She would have made those into Royal Proclamations by the standards of the 19th century; Queen Victoria was a leftist kook she actually made the politicians nervous then, lest she might want to impose that sort of thing it was a high priority to have Prince Albert and then Mr. Brown to manage her the last thing HM government would have wanted, was for Queen Victoria to invoke her authority keep her barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, she can't be trusted to wield her power

basically Wall Street is warning Trump not to follow through with his crazy plan "you're going to incite a market crash, and you're the one who is going to be blamed for it"

it works so long as the Canadian heavy crude is being sent to the refineries in Texas all that infrastructure is already paid for what oil companies are wanting to spend billions to build new heavy crude refineries for Canada ? for low grade heavy crude, with low profit margin at under $60 a barrel ? Canadian oil ain't worth the stretch, because it's not profitable enough Canadian oil only becomes worth big investment, at a $100 a barrel and with the Americans fracking, the oil price may never get back to there again in essence, fracking has rendered the oil sands obsolete just getting oil to tidewater doesn't make you rich in of itself look at Venezuela, they are broke, their oil doesn't actually make a profit basically the Canadian plan being made in a panic now, is like the Caracas plan "let's nationalize the oil in effect" ; Venezuela North I don't expect that Canada will do much at all in the end in typical Canadian fashion, it will be all talk no action but if Canada actually followed through on the talk, it would likely end up being a disaster politicizing your oil, trying to weaponize it, that has backfired massively on every country who tried it central planning doesn't make you more competitive, quite the opposite getting into an oil war with the American market by central planning ; that's how you get crushed trying to force the oil to go through eastern Canada against the tide of market forces that's likely to blow up in Canada's face at a massive financial loss that's the kind of stupid shit that Communist counties do, and how America always wins those wars

Canadians are simply finding out that nobody takes Canada seriously anymore you see any of Canada's supposed "friends" coming out to support Canada ? Canada has made itself totally irrelevant on the international stage because its actually Canadians who have become isolationists, holed up in their frozen socialist hermit kingdom

based on what ? the foundation of the country is British North America yet Canadians don't believe in that anymore what are you going to do ; write a new constitution from scratch ? I don't think you'd like how that turned out because if Canadians as they are now were allowed to do that, you'll be living in Cuba North the British Crown is the only thing standing between you and Maple Syrup Communism HM The King gives you the right to opt put, ignore the Woke mob collective but if Canada becomes the People's Republic that Canadians want, you'll be forced to kneel to that the only saving grace of Canada, is that the Canadian public is not in charge