โUnderstand what almost happened Friday night.
A foreign government attempted to acquire, by contract, control over #Canadaโs trade relationships, cultural protections, official languages policy, auto industry, and provincial procurement, with a unilateral-enforcement whip attached, and they tried to do it in the dark, at midnight, on a deadline they manufactured.
The 51st state thing was never a joke. It was a mission statement.
Friday was the paperwork.โ
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-the-annexation-papers-what
The first time I watched Return of the Jedi, I wondered how we were supposed to believe that a gelatinous, slimy mound of evil who could barely move around and wholly depended on sycophants to cater to his every whim could have possibly amassed such a fortune that he would inspire fear and be running things.
I get it now. - Toni McGee Causey
#USpol
"How Russian propaganda works abroad, in one sentence per layer:
For the right: "Russia defends tradition." For the left: "NATO caused this." For the pacifist: "Weapons prolong war." For the cynic: "Everyone lies equally." For the tired: "It's complicated."
Five contradictory messages, one output: do nothing.
Russian propaganda doesn't need you to love Moscow. It needs you paralyzed."
Sulkhan Metreveli, CEO Met Capital | Director ACR Institute