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Trump Wants Canada’s Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Built ‘Now’ The conduit was meant to carry oil sands crude to Nebraska Pipeline developer says it has ‘moved on’ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-25/trump-wants-canada-to-us-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-built-now?embedded-checkout=true

What specific “soft on crime” policies are you referring to and what proof do you have that they are the cause? In the USA they have harsh punishment and yet still have high crime.

It doesn’t sound like there’s any basis to revoke his citizenship under existing laws. But even if there was, we’re not there yet IMO. If Trump were to make a clear attempt to annex Canada then I think anyone in his regime would be an enemy of the state and then I would support a special act of parliament to strip citizenship from such people under certain circumstances.

White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group Peter Navarro wants to increase pressure on country that Donald Trump has threatened to annex A top White House official has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network as Donald Trumpincreases pressure on the country he talks about turning into the 51st U.S. state. Peter Navarro, one of the U.S. president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the U.S. to remove Canada from the Five Eyes — which also includes the U.K., Australia and New Zealand — according to people familiar with his efforts inside the administration. Trump has said he wants to annex Canada and has vowed to press ahead with 25 per cent tariffs on imports from the country when a one-month reprieve elapses on March 4. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who will step down from office on March 9, was recently caught on an open mic warning that Trump’s ambition to absorb the U.S.’s northern neighbour was a “real thing”. Navarro did not respond to requests for comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Trudeau’s office declined to comment. Trump stunned U.S. allies when he made Canada his first big target for tariffs, alongside Mexico, claiming Ottawa was not doing enough to stop migrants and drugs from entering the U.S. The people familiar with the situation said Navarro, who has easy access to the Oval Office due to his close relationship with Trump, is arguing that the U.S. should increase pressure on Canada by evicting the country from the Five Eyes. It is unclear whether the idea has gained traction with Trump but it is being discussed among his officials. The Five Eyes has for decades been the most important intelligence-sharing network in the world. The U.S. and its allies share extremely sensitive signals and human intelligence in addition to co-ordinating on operations. The CIA-led Pine Gap satellite station in central Australia, which is the most important site for collecting intelligence about China, is just one example of the intimate intelligence relationship Dennis Wilder, a former CIA official who was the top editor of the U.S. president’s daily intelligence briefing, said the Five Eyes was “by far the most successful intelligence-sharing arrangement in world history.” He noted that the partnership emerged when American and British code breakers worked together to break German secret communications during the Second World War, and was expanded to include the other allies in 1956. “Any disruption in these decade-old understandings would be met with cheers from our adversaries in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang,” said Wilder. While Canada and New Zealand provide the least amount of intelligence in the group, expelling any member would spark criticism from the other allies and also from intelligence officials in Washington and beyond. One Five Eyes intelligence official said evicting Canada from the decades-old network would be very dangerous. “Sitting where I’m sitting and looking at the array of threats that are coming at us we need all the partners we can get,” the intelligence official said. Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist who helped Trump win in 2016, said Canada needed to realize that Trump was not trolling Trudeau but was serious about wanting to annex the country. He said Canada lacked the resources to defend itself particularly as China attempts to become an Arctic power. But he said any move to evict Canada from the Five Eyes would be a counter-productive move that would just end up hurting America. “Canada punches way above their weight. If you look at military history, they’ve been the best ally we’ve had,” Bannon said. Navarro served as a White House trade adviser in the first Trump administration. Last year, he served several months in prison for refusing to testify before the congressional commission investigating the Jan. 6 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. His views on trade have long been in sync with Trump, who sometimes calls him “my Peter” and named him in December as a senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service was approached for comment. https://financialpost.com/financial-times/u-s-official-pushes-cut-canada-five-eyes-intelligence-group

The US did not instigate the Euromaidan uprising Crimea did not “wish to rejoin Russia”. Russia orchestrated the 2014 civil war in the Donbas and the separatist fighters were in fact armed equipped and trained by Russia, many of them were de-badged Russian army regulars or Wagner mercenaries sent by Russia. I can’t wait to find out what you think “the Ukrainian military had begun to attack” before Russia but I bet it’s more Putin Propaganda fake news

Paying for every meal in packed Canadian restaurant, U.S. couple apologizes for Trump politics Applause, cheers as American couple picks up the tab for entire Windsor, Ont., restaurant The lunch rush at local restaurant Toast took an unexpected turn after a couple of visiting diners from nearby Ann Arbor, Mich., paid for the meals of every table in the packed restaurant. Behind the gesture of kindness? Their love for Canada, supporting local and sadness about the current state of the U.S.-Canada relationship. Diners in a Windsor, Ont., restaurant were stunned and elated over the weekend when an American couple picked up the bill for the packed establishment — citing U.S. President Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric and their love of Canada. … Hermiz said the woman told patrons "she hates what the United States is doing to us and she doesn't support it. And she's so happy we won the hockey game and it's a little token of appreciation for Canadians and how much she loves us and how much she loves supporting local." "Everyone cheered them on again," Hermiz said. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/american-apology-meal-pays-canada-diner-1.7467020

LMAO Putin’s not a socialist AT ALL! There is literally nothing socialist about him. He is a fascist dictator and is admired by the global far right But anyway the conversation is about whether PP will stand up to Trump not Putin. But you’re right to subconsciously equate the two.

I check out this transit vlog on YouTube once in a while he did a bit on the HSR project a few months ago. Worth a watch.

Boy you just keep hammering the same dumb arguments over and over The very fact people disagree about who can or can’t call themselves a woman proves it’s subjective. I didn’t try to define the term I tried to explain to you that it has no definition but just so goddam dense you don’t get it. Biological sex is not an identity. Identities are perceptions based upon social constructs and self-image. A guy can call himself a woman all he wants Some will also consider him a woman while others will not This is just a fact of existence. You probably don’t see yourself the same way as others see you and different people see you differently. Identity is subjective and relative. You CLEARLY don’t understand the meaning of “identity”. Countless volumes have been written about the topic over the ages going back to ancient times. Why don’t you try looking something up for once instead of spouting your grossly uninformed BS?

I literally just explained that: identities don’t have objective definitions, they are inherently subjective. Biological sex is not an identity and can be defined: “two X chromosomes, no tallywhacker” to quote a now defunct failed Republican congressman.

He will not go after Trump the way he goes after Canadians he doesn’t like. My bet is he will stand up on tariffs and lie down on something else and he will town down his language kissing republican ass wherever he can.

Well now that USA has switched sides we will need to step up but if you knew anything about the Canadian military you would know we don’t have equipment to spare. We don’t even have enough equipment for our own military. We have also massively spun up munitions production and factories We have donated $20Billion since 2022 The allies can’t donate more than Ukraine can absorb We give what we can the Canadian government still has obligations to Canadians and countless domestic issues to deal with. You keep making all these really stupid arguments it’s like when conservatives try to claim anyone who is opposed to pollution is hypocrite if they use electricity. Still sticking with the stupid eh? How much of YOUR personal income do you donate to your moral causes? Or do you not have morals? Like your argument is dumb: if Im not personally supporting a global issue then the worlds greatest superpower shouldn’t either? How much did you donate to fight al Qaeda? Must mean you don’t think the US should have either? Canada didn’t pause its aid to Ukraine, only the Putin loving republicans did Canada declared war against Hitler in 1939, more than 2 years before Nazi-admiring Republicans got on board and USA finally joined the war. And before that Canadian leftist groups were fighting Hitler’s forces in the Spanish civil war as early as 1936 only 3 years after Republican Nazi admirers had plotted a coup attempt against FDR Canada and Europe will do more. And Trump doesn’t want peace, he wants a beneficial outcome for Russia. If he wanted peace he would negotiate a Russian withdrawal not a Ukrainian surrender.

US joins North Korea, Russia and Belarus at UN in refusing to blame Putin for Ukraine war US president Donald Trump also refused to call Russian president Vladimir Putin a dictator https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/us-north-korea-russia-belarus-un-vote-b2703910.html

I am not defining a term with a term. Identities are different from biology. Identities can be assigned or claimed, they are not empirical facts “Female” is biological sex, empirically proven “Woman” is an identity Hedonistic vulgar MAGA Trump supporters identify as conservatives. So do pious religious right bible thumpers, so do Never-Trumpers. They all assign the conservative identity to themselves despite being very different. Half-black people who look black are told they are black and are treated as if they are black no matter how much they try to convince people they are half white and how much they may assign a white or half-white identity to themselves. Why is that so hard to understand? And I can’t believe you’re still beating that ridiculous Al Gore hobby horse no matter how many times it’s been debunked. AL Gore exercised his explicit legal right to request a hand recount as specifically stated in Florida election law and the Florida court agreed with him when Jeb Bush refused to follow the law. And you hayet to explain how asking for the count to he confirmed changes an election result. Trump meanwhile tried extra-legal means to change the election result including pressuring election officials to falsify their vote counts, filing 60+ frivolous lawsuits that had no basis in legal concepts or in facts, and contained on fabricated claims, forging false elector certificates, pressuring state and federal lawmakers to not certify the legitimate election results, and a deliberate public disinformation campaign to mislead the general public and weaponize his base of mindless followers who threatened and intimidated officials. In summary 1)Gore exercised explicitly described rights within the law and followed established rules norms and procedures, while Trump did the exact opposite 2)Gore exercised a right to CONFIRM election results while Trump attempted to undermine rights and ALTER the election results.

He only bullies people on the left. He’s not given any indication he would stand up to a fellow right wing bully.

It’s a “tripwire” setup for PP, he’ll cancel it and be The Grinch Who Stole Christmas to central Canadians who have been calling for HSR for decades. . Or he’ll keep it and be painted as a tax and spend Laurentian elite enriching central Canada at the expense of western Canada. And/or it’s a Liberal pre-election goodie hoping to shore up LPC support in vote-dense central Canada

LMAO you’re mindlessly parroting his lies. He’s not making them an “economic partner”, he’s trying to exploit them and plunder their resources. He has no interest in “moving them forward” he is shaking them down like a mobster. He wants to liquidate their assets and give the remainder to Putin

We don’t give them a pittance and we don’t have plenty more. And we are spinning up munition production Or have you not been paying attention? Seriously, don’t talk about things you clearly know nothing about. Remember your Dear Leader is constantly b1tching about how small our militaries are. And now that the China-Russia-Iran-North Korea alliance has Trump as an accomplice, the rest of the free world has even less military equipment to spare. Still a stupid question. Why do I personally have to do anything? What are YOU personally doing to stop fentanyl and kiddie porn and Islamist terrorism? Nothing you hypocrite? Trump is and you’re a Trump apolgist 1) Russia doesn’t have infinite resources, it won’t go on forever might have already ended had Republicans not frozen funding for months on end and allowed Russia time to recover 2)would you have made these same arguments about Hitler in 1939? The bottom line is Trump only wants a “peace” that strengthens Russia and weakens Ukraine. Trump is not a neutral third party he’s clearly on Putin’s side. And therefore so are you.

These Putin propagandists can try go spin it any way they want. There’s not a single peace activist amongst them The fact they can’t escape is that Trump’s so-called peace plan is as follows: Russia, the war’s aggressor, ends its invasion in a BETTER position than it started, gaining new resource- rich and militarily strategic conquered territory Ukraine, the war’s victim, ends the war in a WORSE position than when it started, losing valuable resource-rich territory to Russia AND giving US half of its critical mineral resources Trump has made it clear he is a Putin ally in this conflict.

Canada does support Ukraine, dumbass. We’ve sent them billions already and Trudeau is in Ukraine right now where he just announced more aid. Canada and Europe are united against the Trump-Putin alliance. Your argument that anyone who opposes Russia’s war of conquest should go fight is stupid. Especially from a supporter of the Republican chickenhawk party that sent thousands of other people’s children to die for their Iraq invasion under their fabricated the false pretences and viciously attacked and smeared anyone who dared speak the truth about their lies

As I mentioned in the rest of my post

He’s clearly saying he won’t join America’s “war on woke” because it doesn’t value inclusiveness. But that’s not the same as promising Canada will remain “woke” BTW the term woke itself means different things to different people. For some it simply means enlightened, considerate and inclusive, ie anything progressive. To others “woke” is pejorative that only refers to when those progressive ideals are applied in absurd or unreasonable ways. To Republicans it’s just become another throw-away insult they use against everyone and everything. Believing climate change is real is woke. Not wanting to poison the water table is woke. The Republican “war on woke” includes witch hunts to blame every accident, mishap and negative news event on a female or non-white person and to suggest that anyone who is not a straight white male is inherently unqualified for any job.

Actually the “typical” complaint about liberals historically has been they campaign from the left but govern from the right. To make your post accurate you should say “typical of Trudeau liberals” rather than the liberal party in general. Even then one could probably argue Trudeau both campaigned and governed from the left.

In that clip all he said was “Canadians will continue to value inclusiveness” which is not what you and the tweet claim.

All you do here is be stupid ffs 1) someone suggesting Ukraine should join NATO someday is not the same as Ukraine is about to join NATO 2) So what if it dis join NATO? NATO is not a danger to Russia: - NATO countries all had developed extensive economic ties to Russia and even now many still can’t stop buying Russian gas and doing other trade with Russia - NATO membership would simply mean that if Russia invaded Ukraine then NATO could defend it 3) If Russia wanted to block or protest Ukraine joining NATO there are a thousand way they could have done that without invading. It’s not obvious to anyone how invading Ukraine prevents that in fact it makes it more likely - in fact Russia successfully kept Sweden and Finland out of NATO for the entire cold war and beyond…until it invaded Ukraine. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You previously admitted that you didn’t know anything about Ukraines recent history and Russias meddling in it internal politics now suddenly you’re claiming to be some kind of expert. First you dumbass the competition over Ukraine long predates Obama and goes all the way back to end of the Cold War and both Bush governments It always amazes me how you never let your complete ignorance of a topic get in the way of spouting off strong opinions about it. It’s the MAGA way however Ukraine has always had pro-western, pro-democracy, pro European movements since the end of the cold war. Russian backed puppet regimes brutally suppressed them, poisoned rivals, killed and beat up journalists, rigged elections, and tried to keep Ukraine under Russian control. Naturally western democracies going back to Bush Sr. supported the pro-democracy Ukrainian parties just the same way Trump is supporting far right parties in Europe. Russia invaded in 2014 because their corrupt puppet dictator was ousted after massacring unarmed protesters and they were worried about losing control of the country. PERIOD. The Ukrainian prosecutor (one prosecutor not multiple as dishonestly claim) that USA and Europe all wanted removed was a corrupt tool of the old Russian puppet regime who used his office to target pro-western leaders and institutions.