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I'm Canadian as well but I'm in Canada. I was led to believe the biden warnings of imminent russia invasion were war mongering and not true. Clearly not true anymore. Russia is an aggressor.

From my point of view, it seems Canadians are team Russia here, especially our prime minister.




What led you to believe those things (the idea that the Biden Administration's claims of an imminent invasion were war mongering, and the idea that Canada has aligned itself with Russia)?


Might I add, I reallllllly hope this isn't what it looks like.


>What led you to believe those things (the idea that the Biden Administration's claims of an imminent invasion were war mongering,

That's a great question, but I don't know if I know the answer. Overall, the US as world police, Obama and his nobel peace prize and 7 wars, and virtually entire existence of the USA they have been at war. It's kind of easy to see this point of view.

However, I would generally say our media was saying the invasion wasn't imminent. Largely reporting the Ukraine government denied any invasion was coming.

This I would say as well was the story across political lines.

The only thing really covered was how Trudeau was being actively excluded from diplomacy by Biden.

https://twitter.com/annmarie/status/1485652537105600516/phot...

Though not about Ukraine... our media covered how we got excluded from the security alliance as well: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

I dont think I ever read anyone in our media suggesting Biden lost respect or trust in Trudeau but now in hindsight...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poroshenko-ukraine-russia-c...

Ukraine is on the other side of the planet and they are singling us out to ask for aid that we aren't giving?

>and the idea that Canada has aligned itself with Russia)?

Well as I said, a week ago I didn't believe in this at all. In my mind, it was a wackadoodle conspiracy theory.

Here's a 5 minute video from Jimmy Dore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJdHF7J_ZZM

It is public knowledge that the liberal party are members of the WEF. So is Putin. Both Putin and Trudeau have done keynotes. They are publicly linked.

It's a whole different thing to say this is some evil cabal or some diplomatic war-supporting effort. For all I know Trudeau is a mole and we are still complete allies to the USA, if not protectorate.

But frankly, I look at the last week. Russia invaded and Canadians are under an unjustified national emergency with the government seizing bank accounts with no due process or redress. We do have political prisoners and global celebrities from across the political spectrum are calling out Trudeau as Hitler.


Your PM just got a taste of authoritarian despotism so it would make sense.


>Your PM just got a taste of authoritarian despotism so it would make sense.

I'm going to show my left-wing bias but Bill Maher and Jimmy Dore both called Trudeau Hitler. They are objectively right, but what happened?

Canada had some ineffectual blockades, but at the time of the emergency being invoked. Those were gone. So the emergency was ONLY the protest in Ottawa.

The justification for the emergency is the military occupation and they used the givesendgo hacked data to analyze that around 50% of the raised money was from the USA. The allegation is that the USA is somehow doing this? This is absurd but why is Trudeau overreacting to all this? What did he fear?

I think I might know why he fears the USA.




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