August1991

Such is your right, to vote secretly for whomever you wish. Charest may be Colgate while Trudeau is Crest - and to you, there may be no difference between Coke and Pepsi. But trust me: This simple choice - assuming they don't collude, form a cartel - changes everything.

Afghanistan? IMHO, we Canadians participated to show clearly that Afghans can do whatever the hell they want, but they will never ever again provide a place for people to attack America. ===== Obama generally avoided getting involved in nonsense abroad Trump made a point of not getting involved. Heck, Biden withdrew from Afghanistan.

Why did Clinton drop bombs on the bridges in Belgrade? Why did Bush Jnr drop bombs in Iraq? ===== Trump is correct. America won the Cold war. As they say, move on.

Precisely, no more NATO.

America is some 330 million people doing Gawd-knows what. Is America occupied by corrupt Khazarian? WTF? America occupied by Lutherans? Possible. White supremacists. But America controlled by Armenians? ==== Or are we talking of Jewish Armenians?

Now, "Europe"? The Finns fought the Russians. The Swedes stayed "neutral". The Norwegians were quislings. ==== We must bring several billion children into the modern world. I think Steve Jobs has done better than Ingvar Kamprad.

Precisely. Excepting the Civil War, the USA is a civilised place without war.

I have a particular view of Europeans. They are not civilised. They are violent - every generation or so, they fight each other and cause mayhem for the rest of us. 1618-1648 -Thirty Years War 1789-1815 -Napoleonic Wars 1914-1945 -World War I and II Tolstoi wrote a book about this.

Strongly disagree. Is Crimea part of Ukraine? Or is it Russian? ===== More broadly, is Slovakia part of Czechoslavakia? Or Europe?

Woodrow Wilson "defined" Ukraine. To be progressive, these foreigners from abroad are now known in English as "Ukrainian". ===== Putin and so-called Ukrainians are doing what Trudeau Snr avoided for Canada. In Canada, we get along. This was the main idea of Trudeau Snr - a federal state - counterweights.

Good point.

As a Canadian, I recently drove through Vermont and New Hampshire. I stopped in Starbucks. Bought Big Macs. I saw the people at the beach. Simply looking at a person, hearing them, I could predict what the person thought of Trump. ===== America is foolishly divided.

There is a huge misunderstanding about people like Putin and Gates. Gates pays for things. Trudeau Jnr and Putin command things. ==== How rich is Putin? Well, how rich is Joe Biden?

How will this end? Has the US federal government become a Ponzi scheme? ==== Harper wisely said that Americans will figure out a way. But at over 150% of GDP, I wonder how. Huh? Japan's government debt is well over 200% of GDP. (Because of Harper, Trudeau Jnr's spending means we're still below 100%.) ===== In macroeconomic theory, if the growth of government debt is greater than real GDP growth, it's a Ponzi scheme. -The government is borrowing faster than the economy can generate tax revenues. -But wait. The government never dies. For you on the right or left, think: the State never dies. ==== As I always say, whether in Japan, Russia or Canada, it is not how the government/State pays - whether my credit card, debit card, my name on a loan - what's the difference? No difference. It is what the government bureaucrat politician buys.

Bingo. I gotta love Pierre Trudeau. ====== On an entirely topic, why did this war start? IMHO, this is a disaster caused by western diplomacy. Our Western diplomats - the MSM - made this war possible. It could have been avoided. Heck, these idiots could start a nuclear war.

You Americans can send young guys to die abroad. You proved that in Vietnam. You won the Cold War and the Soviet Union is no more. ===== But now, Trump is correct. There is no reason for any American soldier to die abroad.

As a foreigner, I have been thinking about this. Bush, Clinton: they're wrong. Trump is right. You won the Cold War - back off. ===== America is a wonderful country.

Define "Ukraine" - U Krainia - at the border. ===== Lvov? It was once Lemberg - like Montreal and Calcutta today - cities where unilingual people of different languages live together in peace. To my knowledge, Putin has no desire to make Lemberg part of Russia.

Where is Biafra? ==== I prefer our previous federal PM. While I disagreed, he had a clear idea of a federal State. And I've always liked his quote : "He would make the West Island the Danzig of the New World." Who was the "he"? Duplessis? Laurier? Lévesque? Dunno. But Trudeau`s quote makes plain why I love America.

Define "ukraine". ===== In Canada, I can define Acadian - sort of. In Europe, it is more problematic to define "ukrainia" - let alone galicia or pomerania.

At best, Putin is a wily, modern Catherine. Compare this to the Chinese or worse, the Arabians. ===== JFK and Reagan defeated the Communists. Now, we have to bring these people into the modern world.

Because of Woodrow Wilson, we speak of "Ukrainians" and "Poles" nowadays. As a progressive, Woodrow Wilson believed at the time in nationalism. But nowadays, we have a different - more accurate, more forward thinking view.

Huh? Eastern Prussia are the only good parts of modern Poland - except for the cities once in Austria. Malbork, despite various wars, is still a beautiful city. ===== The Russian parts of Poland are simply ugly - still today. Like Belarus.

Several years ago, I was in Crimea. Everyone that I met spoke Russian - except for a few Tatars. ==== Crimea and the Donetsk are Russian in the same sense that the West Island is English. Ukraine? It is like Cochrane or Moncton.

Advice for tourists, all the good places/cities to visit are on the left/West. They were part of Austria-Hungary - for example, Lviv, or rather Lemberg. Beautiful city. Donetsk? That's Russian.