VComrade [he/him]

Could this be a reaction to Ansar Allah?

Meaningfully, we’re very integrated status quo to the American O&G market and sell at a discount to their refineries and upgraders and haven’t changed royalty rates for many many years. It’s hard to imagine what more the US could get from us under an independent regime or folded in to the US empire. When pipelines are full, we rail out oil over even food nevermind passengers - our previous premier even gave loan guarantees to oil companies to the tune of billions of dollars contingent on Trump winning in 2020 more or less for the expansion of keystone, which didnt happen so we just gave them billions for literally nothing!

How about, not having to pay for Canadian O&G at all? The same could be said of the entire Canadian economy. As integrated as Canada is we still nominally have a say in who we sell to for how much. And also, titles mean everything to libs. No matter how favorable the situation to the US, at the end of the day, its still Canada. And if Trump wants to change that, like the Gulf of America, then he’ll do it.

Independence would have real messy hurdles and Canada, federally, has no interest in making it easy for a province to unilaterally leave - which is why the numbered treaties being signed with the Crown is such a big deal because Alberta is entirely within them. Even then, there is no majority or plurality interested in independence. The settler grievance people, when pressed, imagine we would keep our passports, “our” chunk of the canadian pension fund, would be able to freely use Canadian dollars, healthcare transfers would keep coming in, the rest of Canada would “have” to allow pipeline construction to tidewater, etc. Even if there were plurality support, there is no basis to an Albertan identity like there is for the Quebecois nation which is probably why people think they’d keep all the benefits of confederation while being independent lol.

You misunderstand. I’m plainly saying legalities and treaties and legislation…none of that matters. It doesn’t matter how hard it is for a province to leave confederation. If the US wants Alberta bad enough, they’ll go for it. International law is essentially just American Ad Hoc demands of everyone else.

Could the CIA intervene? Yeah I guess but to what end, don’t they have fingers in pies in Venezuela or the Middle East or somewhere actually important? Would the Albertan corpos sell out to the states? Bad news, they did already decades ago. This is currently the sell out.

Exactly. Im saying the CIA and FBI and all of them have already had their fingers into Canada for ages now. Canada is an indispensable resource depot for the Americans and in the increasingly likely event they do get forced to withdraw entirely from the ME that importance will become an existential necessity. This is why I laugh when Canadians say they are afraid of the US physically invading. They won’t need to. We’ll just see major unrest and then the Americans will roll out some pretext…or maybe not even that if Iran is the new norm…to justify bringing Alberta, or wherever under their direct security umbrella.

Not saying you’re wrong but messy is exactly the modus operandi of US(CIA)foreign policy. Destabilization and intervention is the name of their game and popularity or popular support is not a consideration of theirs when pushing an agenda. Although, Canadian law enforcement, particularly CSIS, have a long history of collaboration with American surveillance programs and policing. If the price is right our corpos won’t hesitate to sell out to the americans.

The beast is coming home. I think you’re going to see a huge resurgence in the separatist agenda in Alberta, Canada also. It’s no coincidence that Alberta expresses the most pro-US sentiment amongst the Canadian provinces being home to the tar sands. Once the US withdraws from the ME we’re going to see a lot more focus put towards people closer to home. Canada, south America and Greenland.

Surely carpet bombing an entire country will force them to surrender, it’s worked everywhere else they’ve done it, right? …right?!

They don’t actually care about sources or truth. They’re just interested in maintaining their facade of self-righteousness to make it easier for them to sleep on their piles of death.

No, you misunderstand. The US is the world. That’s why they have the world series there every year…duh

Wait, this is in the entity? I’m surprised shes still alive.

That general analysis is far more useful given that it includes both sides of the contradiction in question and gives an objective conclusion. Where as the OP focused on a single parties actions in a vacuum and completely ignored any context in relation to said actions and other actors. Totally absolving the primary aspect of the contradiction of any responsibility or involvement. Borderline imperialist apologia to be frank.

That is a much more general analysis so I don’t think it is comparable. As an analogy, Darwinian theory describes a general law (survival according to adaptation) but that doesn’t predict that specifically tree frogs will eventually result from this process. Neither was it at all given that Russia would invade Ukraine, just because they laid down a general principle of intolerance of NATO aggression.

Conflict in Ukraine was, again, something that was always a possibility if NATO continued doing what it was doing and it continued anyway

A pentagon think tank also published a report in 2019 specifically citing using Ukraine as a quagmire to draw Russia into a costly war.

Here is former Chancellor Angela Merkel saying the Minsk agreements in 2014 were simply a tool to buy time for Ukraine to arm and train for war with Russia. Months before the war began

And this isn’t even mentioning the failed CIA orange color revolution in 2004 or the knock on CIA backed Maidan uprising of 2014. That’s an entire days worth of reading if you’re really looking to go down the rabbit hole.

Given that the west was working really hard to provoke Russia into action knowing full well its position in regards to NATO and Ukraine, yes, it really was guaranteed Russia would invade Ukraine.

Oo now this is interesting. Hungary is an EU member, Ukraine isn’t. I wonder if the EU will move to silence its own member in favor of its current favorite pet and watch the whole thing evaporate or if it will side with its own member and ditch its current favorite pet and watch the whole thing evaporate.

There’s no way they are surprised people are quitting a job that isn’t paying them. Like, I knew the corpos live in a dream world but…seriously?

Ok, Well then the example used is contradictory to the point trying to be made. Because Russia made it pretty clear from the day the USSR was illegally dissolved to now that it wouldn’t accept NATO making any moves on Ukraine. And it was well understood within NATO itself that Russia would, in fact, move to confront it in Ukraine.

It would have been more accurate to simply put the conversation into class context and say the bourgeoisie rarely say what they mean to the proletariat and default to libspeak to candy coat reality.

I’m sorry this is extremely funny given that Russia said for months that they would never invade Ukraine, including in talks with the US and Europe (to the point that a lot of us on here in the news mega naively believed them, including me), only to launch a war that has lasted 4+ years with no signs of stopping. And at the start of the war, Russia tried to have their special forces enter the Ukrainian capital and perform such “personal attacks” aimed at the political class of Ukraine as part of denazification

Uhh, you’re leaving out a giant chunk of context here that lead Russia to do what it did. And this all goes way back before 2022. It goes back before 2014, even. Let’s not forget historical materialism and the universality of contradiction in our analysis and understanding of events that come to pass.

Yes, Russia invaded Ukraine. But that wasn’t the start of this. Anyone who says that also says Palestine started the war in October of 2023.

Welcome to international relations and geopolitics. Everyone is trying to play, deceive and fool the other parties. To think otherwise is naive, and Russia of all nations would know that. The US knows it. This is not a shift in anything, but rather a return to the norm. China talks openly about decapitation strikes with hypersonic weapons on Taiwanese political leadership in the media, and this was before the US war in Iran, and operation in Venezuela. So they know it too.

I can agree with this to an extent. Though no other actor engages in the scope and scale of clandestine operations that directly violates the sovereignty of literally everyone as the Americans. Being in the traditionally dominant position they have been, they set the tone and the precedent and others have to act accordingly.

I know it’s just the distance but these missiles always look like they’re so slow at night

Soc dems…am I right?

A good point and I hope thats true

I bet Iran knows more than we do but… Backing a nuclear armed, unhinged genocidal regime into a corner and offering no quarter could be apocalyptic.

That being said, death to the entity, long live the martyrs. Inshallah

I would like to see a venn diagram of these fuckers and the visitors list on epstein island. The world is literally being used as a charnel house by a cabal of evil.

Iran rejected more direct assistance way before any of this happened and even rejected donations from chinese people online. It’s pretty clear both China and Russia are respecting Iran’s wishes and keeping to providing intelligence and other types of aid to help iran keep its missiles going.

Edit: also, we’ve learned to not take “official statements” from western sources at face value. China is just doing libspeak. As the other user said, They arent gonna come out and say “yeah we want you to bomb the ever living fuck out of every imperialist lapdog and keep doing it until they stop twitching.”