Moonlight Graham

"Sanctuary cities"? If mayors and police chiefs and others don't abide by federal law they should be arrested for obstruction of justice etc. The same goes for the President and his executive branch (including Trump and the Biden) How do you maintain a well-functioning society? You follow the law, and enforce it when necessary. Defund the police? No, maintain law and order. That means everyone is accountable to the law, including the police, judges, politicians etc. The rule of law is the linchpin of a society. Power-hungry political leaders centralizing their power (Trump, Trudeau), activist judges, crooked politicians/parties, cops who abuse their power....They're ALL a threat to our democracy.

Yes, post-1815 (post-Napoleonic Wars) they created the Concert of Europe and we had 100 years of peace in Europe. This was the blueprint for the UN Security Council. In both cases they created a "balance of powers", where an attack on one is deemed an attack on all, therefore no one powerful nation can dominate any others. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_of_Europe By 1914, this Concert of Europe had collapsed because European countries had formed their own alliances into 2 groups out of fear and on a rising security spiral. These 2 competing alliances eventually went to war with each other in WWI, and it happened again in WWII. The UN's creation did not prevent direct war between superpowers since every permanent member has a veto, and countries cheated all the time. Nukes prevented direct war, resulting in endless proxy wars including civil wars that are still raging to this day, such as in the middle-east and Africa. We've now entered a new Cold War. China has been trying to rig our elections, influence our politicians, and engaged in economic warfare including corporate espionage, especially in the tech sector. The nuclear arms race is mostly over. We have entered an AI arms race. We don't need uranium, we need CPU/GPU chip-making infrastructure and rare earth metals. For the sake of western civilization, do not buy or use smart devices like phones/tv's made by ZTE, Hauwei, Hisense etc. The tech IP is all stolen, and what the Chinese save in R&D costs is used to undercut their competitors on price. If Chinese AI systems eventually dominate the global marketplace our economies, political systems, and national security are under existential threat. May Google, Apple, Tesla, Samsung etc destroy them. RIP Nortel, early victim of the tech wars.

All fine and dandy for those supporters until their own rights start getting taken away.

As I said, the US has been far from perfect. However things also aren't as simple as they first appear. Here's a question for you: do you think if the US left the middle-east alone those countries would have more self-determination and possibly even more democracy? Or do you think Russia and China would immediately fill the power vacuum, rig all the elections in their favour and/or do their own regime changes installing pro-Russia/China despots? And how comfortable would you feel with Russia and China having the control the US has had over most of the world's oil supply for which our economy and military is highly dependent on? Do you remember the 1973 oil crisis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis And how comfortable would you be with Russia and China running the world like the US has the last 30 years? The grass isn't always greener...

Western Europe destroyed itself during WWII, which is why it no longer matters. In its ashes rose the American and Soviet empires. The lesson in Western Europe was to make peace with each other while deferring to the US for its protection against another existential threat (communism). Western Europe also finally became all democratic regimes after WWII (by force of the Americans). Democracy and human rights is a threat to the Chinese regime, not to mention Putin...and Trump. A single person or party can't have total control when they share power with the people.

I'm not arguing pre-1945 was less violent than the Cold War. Pre-1945 was a multipolar world order vs a bipolar order during the Cold War. Post-1991 has been a unipolar world order with the US as the sole superpower and global hegemon. It's an odd thing to argue that Canada and the world will be safer with a strong China. It's already creating a security dilemma. The same thing that triggered an arms race, the Cuban missile crisis, wars like Vietnam/Korea, and countless regime changes, proxy wars, and civil wars in the 3rd world. Much more dangerous than a few terrorist groups blowing up some buildings. Ukraine is a proxy war, and Taiwan would be also. The fewer totalitarian superpowers the better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_dilemma

No, post-WW2 NATO countries made peace, including Western Europe. Eastern Europe and the rest of the world did not. Ask Latin America, Africa, and Asia about Cold War violence. The world extends beyond your own street.

LOL what? How do you know this?

The last Cold War was horribly violent and caused a lot of death and instability across the world for half a century. Western global hegemony means liberal democracies rule the world. I'd prefer it stay that way. The USSR as a superpower was not good for the world and China won't be either. Nor India. It's fine to criticize some US foreign policy, but the left hates US power. The problem is that the left always compares the US to perfection, and never to totalitarian dictatorships like China and the USSR who are the alternative. The grass isn't always greener so be careful what you wish for. When people say US foreign policy is evil, the question is: compared to who? They obviously aren't perfect, but there's no better behaving great power in human history....and it's not even close. The British Empire? Napoleonic France Germany? Imperial Japan? Roman or Byzantine or Ottoman empires? Please.

Agreed. Annexing territory through military invasion is illegal under international law and should never be accepted or legitimized. The West should support and arm Ukraine until Russia decides to leave.

Love or hate Carney, this is a great quote.

Holy wars are fun.

Post the quotes or zip it.

I said have some class when an old man gets diagnosed with what looks like terminal cancer you fool. The fact that some people have a problem with this statement says a lot about their own character. If you have evidence I wished Trump death or anything of the sort then post the quote. Otherwise zip it and stop whining like a 2 year old.

You're literally the one who moved the goalposts lol

I'm not neutral. Trump is much worse than Biden, even though I don't like Biden as a politician. I also don't wish Trump gets shot even though he's a human piece of feces. Have a nice day.

A statement from a Chinese state- owned company is not reliable evidence.

Oh so you've got nothing. Have a nice day.

Still waiting for any evidence I did this.

Your link is from a state-owned Chinese company boasting about itself? You couldn't pay me to click on that link.

If she keeps this up she's going to be President one day.

Because I don't think we should go around pi$$ing on an senile old man's cancer diagnosis? You live in a black-and-white world my man.

All those things are true. But I don't remember wishing he got shot.

Ok, here goes: I'm not a Biden supporter. Cite please.

I have no idea what thread you're even talking about. I work for a living, I'm not on here every day. Who is "we"?