Excellent summary. The US has used and abused the Kurds over and over again. While they’d be crazy to not take their opportunity to establish some territorial autonomy, they’d have to be utter fools to trust the US not to stab them in the back again.
Protest movements take decades to make significant change. Trump is out here breaking things faster than anyone can respond because he knows he will never personally face the consequences, and the bodies that pile up in the mean time, won’t ever have any justice.
That’s the big secret. Efficient at what is never discussed. It’s very efficient [… at lowering legal costs, and avoiding consequences and accountability]. As long as no one says the quiet part out loud, everything is “fine” [… for them].
No, this is what the cabinet is getting out of it. There’s a much less ideological reason Trump is rubber stamping it.
Trump is president, but he knows he can’t hang on to it. Bibi has offered to make him and his heirs kings in perpetuity of Gaza though. He’s aiming to build a new Dubai in Israel, a resort city for the rich and famous under his exclusive control in perpetuity and shield him from prosecution. Trump City. That’s a legacy. That’s the most massive tribute anyone has offered him yet. He’ll do anything Bibi asks because in exchange, he gets to be a petty king of his own little Morocco, his Singapore, his little Mediterranean paradise. It’s exactly that transactional. The proceeds from his “Bored of Peace” brigade will go to building his little kingdom, and he’ll be given a blank check to do whatever he feels like as long as he uses the full force of the US military machine to serve the Israeli cause.
People keep asking what is the American angle on this war for Iran. They’re asking the wrong question, this isn’t an American war, this is an Israeli war on Iran, with the US acting as Netanyahu’s personal hounds. It’s not about American interests, Trump doesn’t give a second thought to American interests, this is what is in HIS interests.
I have a theory about why Trump himself is authorizing this. Trump is president, but he knows he can’t hang on to it. Bibi has offered to make him and his heirs kings in perpetuity of Gaza though. He’s aiming to build a new Dubai in Israel, a resort city for the rich and famous under his exclusive control in perpetuity and shield him from prosecution. Trump City. That’s a legacy. That’s the most massive tribute anyone has offered him yet. He’ll do anything Bibi asks because in exchange, he gets to be a petty king of his own little Morocco, his Singapore, his little Mediterranean paradise. It’s exactly that transactional. The proceeds from his “Bored of Peace” brigade will go to building his little kingdom, and he’ll be given a blank check to do whatever he feels like as long as he uses the full force of the US military machine to serve the Israeli cause.
Yeah, you can kill a man with a knife but you can do it a lot faster and easier with a nuclear warhead. People aren’t scared of an aggressive chihuahua, but they’ll have an aggressive pitbull put down. The scale and scope of damage matters.
Unless it’s one of the disillusioned America First crowd. That might end well.
That’s a big factor. Calling it “Canadian Media” is a lie. It’s American owned corporate media, not Canadian.
Broadly unhappy with his bending the knee. There’s significant talk of anti-war protests.
I have to say, I’m a bit shocked that we have to accomodate publicly funded Catholic schools as a charter obligation “out of respect for francophone culture” when you don’t even consider it a part of your culture.
This is why Canadians aren’t reassured at all when Americans say “the people would never support a war on Canada.” Like that means anything at all. When Trump says jump, there’s no war crime America won’t commit, and all the people will do is wring their hands and post worthless sympathies on Instagram. Trump doesn’t care what you believe about your rights. Neither do the thousands of Iranians dying in your name.
Until very recently we’ve all been under some pretty scary religious leadership of one denomination or another. Some of us still are (as many of us in Alberta will happily admit). That said, I think it’s a bridge to far to associate all religion with its worst, extremist elements, regardless of which faith it happens to be.
As far as the “private” school thing, at least here Catholic schools aren’t even technically private. They’re public, provincially funded schools with semi-autonomous regional school boards, with religious oversight from the local Diocese. It’s referred to as the “seperate” school system, which is entirely different than the “private” (aka pay-to-play) school system, which is different still from the “charter” school system which most other religious schools fall under (Lutheran, Pentecostal, Jewish, etc.).
I admit to not being as familiar with how Quebec handles their Catholic schools. Is it not run the same there?
Quite frankly we don’t have the organizational infrastructure for that. An army, including a rebellion marches on its stomach. Small protest organization feeds into larger scale organization down the road. We’ve got to start somewhere.
Absolutely rude. If you’re using AI to make a point for you, you’ve already admitted you don’t know enough about what you’re talking about to be having a opinion in the first place, let alone be worth discussing an issue with.
Those are constitutionally mandated, but if you want to back an amendment, I’m down.
I’m not a fan of religious schools either, but they’re not going away anytime soon. You want to try for a constitutional amendment to get rid of them, good luck. As long as they’re a fact of life, the least we can do is teach our kids that no one creed is particularly better or worse than any other.
Never been in a Catholic school I take it? Here in Alberta we have publicly funded religious schools all over the place and access to Catholic schools are a constitutional requirement. Even in fully secular public schools, good luck taking any kind of music or performing arts without having to sing some creed’s hymns or performing a play with religious themes. I’m actually really thrilled when a school has some religious diversity and isn’t afraid to include some Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or Indigenous representation in the day-to-day, because it gets so monotonous to have so much Christian representation and nothing else.
I don’t know about Quebec, but I’d rather my kids get used to the idea that no one of any creed is particularly terrible (or has a monopoly on virtue). As for head scarves, I have no more objection to Islamic women wearing them than I object to Hutterite or Mennonite women wearing them. They’re wearing a hat, not reading scriptures.The whole “religious symbols” thing seems like a lot of pearl-clutching over nothing.
Yes, we’ve never had any kind of religious representation in schools like crucifixes and rosaries or religious figures teaching classes…🙄
Dump his ass, we don’t need traitors on our teams.
The military budget needed to be tripled. The rest is a problem. Literally nothing could be worse than Poilievre so I’ll take it, but I’m not happy about it.