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There may be a lot of Russians who yearn for the old days but Russia isn't remotely communist. Communism is the state owning everything, today's Russia concentrates wealth among its oligarchs with a dictator oligarch holding the power, the opposite of communism. Very few of the world's autocracies are communist.

Russia is not communist, it’s basically a kleptocracy run by gangsters whose politics are money and power. It’s actually the opposite of communism. Putin’s desire is to rebuild the old Russian Empire, not restore communism.

So give them an actual trial in a court instead of a political show.

Canada's total government debt is well over 100% GDP. Using net debt is a con because it is debt remaining after government sells all its liquid assets. Why is the Caisse buying US paper if it is a Ponzi scheme?

Because it encourages people to invest in actual business that create wealth instead of just interest bearing accounts that do not..

It would be bad for Quebec's interests as well. You aren't going to get a better deal than you have now. Do you honestly think the RoC or the US would otherwise give a crap about Quebec's culture or lift a finger to support it?

Russia won't go to war with a strong NATO. A weak NATO is a reason Putin felt he could throw the dice in Ukraine and get away with it. Wars are a lot more expensive than keeping a strong peacetime military and without peace, all your new social programs (funded on debt) won't be possible.

https://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-companies/ Seems like this is normal Trump.

In BC you would also have the pleasure of watching addicts shooting up and smoking crack while their dealers come and go.

I'm a British Columbian born and bred but a Canadian first. I would hate to see Canada break up and think it would be bad for everyone and a tragedy but I'm starting to wonder if that is what has to happen.

Go out in the wild and see how far your rights get you.

Who's stopping you? You keep having referendums. The ROC is getting tired of listening to it. Shit or get off the pot. We wouldn't put up with this crap from any other province.

I'm asking that question myself. Quebec's threats have just become tiresome. I wasn't always this way but it seems to never end.

I've become kind of ambivalent about Quebec. How can a country go on having endless referendums? Quebec has had a pretty good deal going, they get far more in federal spending than they send to Ottawa in taxes (as do several other provinces) and they basically ignore Ottawa whenever they feel like it. Daniel Smith gets crucified for pushing back the same way Quebec has been for years and getting away with it.

https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-u-s-nuclear-weapons-in-europe/ NATO is not a country, it is barely a political entity. It is a group of independent countries that have committed themselves to defend each other if one of them is attacked from the outside. THAT'S ALL. https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_17120.htm Article 1. The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations. No there isn't because Russia invaded its neighbour and is trying to take half its territory if not the whole thing. Nothing to do with left or right, everything to do with right an wrong. Putin is using the same game plan as Hitler did to annex Austria and Czechoslovakia and attack Poland and you id*iots lap it up. Cicero

So what happens if you are stuck in a room with one of these people and staff refuse to enter? Or should addicts get private rooms?

Of course not, you will believe whatever Putin tells you. You don't fact check anything. America's army is not on their doorstep, their deployments are a matter of record. What NATO is that, the one that has guaranteed peace in Europe since WW2. NATO's new members joined by choice because they know what Russia is all about after living under the Soviet boot for almost 50 years. Putin went into Crimea because he wanted it and id*ots like you cheered.

Who says they are other than Putin and his useful fools? The only European countries with nuclear capability are Britain and France. Britain's nuclear deterrent is 100% SLBM, and so is most of the French deterrent. France has a few warheads that can be delivered by aircraft, neither country has ground based missiles to deliver nuclear warheads. The only US nuclear warheads are an estimated 100 gravity bombs stored in Germany, Italy, Belgium and Turkey, none in eastern Europe. Where do you think Russian nukes are aimed and who is the only person to repeatedly threaten their use? How will Russia be less threatened if it occupies Ukraine and is confronted by a stronger NATO with the possibility of nukes based in Eastern Europe as a result of its aggression? Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a blatant land grab, he got away with it in Crimea and thought he could do it again. It has nothing to do with any threat from NATO but you are only too happy to swallow what that gangster is peddling.

Invading a country that was not threatening you is not aggression? You are a super fool. What hostile aggressive army? The only NATO troops based in former Warsaw Pact countries are in the Baltic states, at their request and in Poland, also at its request. Before Vlad invaded Ukraine, there were no US or NATO troops based in Poland. Vlad's invasion of Ukraine has increased NATO presence in the region, including a new 1300 km long border with a formal neutral with a very capable military. Finland, with another new member country and former neutral with a capable military backing them up, Sweden. Until Vlad invaded Ukraine, defence spending by European NATO countries were at post Cold War lows. Now they are pouring money into defence spending because they see Putin as a real threat. If NATO is much stronger now, Putin has only himself to blame. I have looked around and the number of useful fools like you is quite alarming.

As opposed to your unquestioning acceptance of Putins aggression. The devil made me do it excuse to justify the destruction of a country and hundreds of thousand lives. Russia invaded Ukraine. If Ukraine had been a NATO member, there would be no flat cities. Russia invaded Ukraine.

The US didn’t shift anything. Countries ask to join NATO and they have to be approved by every member. There are no US troops based in former Warsaw Pact countries. Obviously Ukraine should have been a NATO member, they would have never been attacked and there would be no war to talk about.

Who will stop addicts from using where they like and enforce the use of those spaces?

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That’s why we shouldn’t be depending on the US so much. Many NATO countries are preparing for it by ramping up their own defence spending. Trudeau is throwing around money on new programs like it is grass seed, he doesn’t seem concerned.

Exactly, you don't have to be able to defeat everyone on your own, just be prickly enough that you aren't worth the trouble and have alliances that will deter the more powerful threats. NATO.