That explains a lot.

Opinion | Trump’s Russia Policy Is Appeasement Like Chamberlain in the 1930s, he sees Ukraine as a faraway quarrel to avoid. This won’t bring peace or stop Putin.

Forcing Ukraine to cede Crimea (and all of the Donbas?) is appeasement. Same as it's always been.

www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

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Joint statement from the leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom and France on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law.

Canada, UK and France say that if Israel doesn’t halt its renewed offensive and restore aid to Gaza, ‘we will take further concrete actions in response. We oppose any attempt to expand settlements in the West Bank … We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions.’

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

🚨 The Canadian Association of University Teachers has just advised against any non-essential travel to the United States.🚨

Was doing this anyway, but still shocking to see it officially in writing.

www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Fact is US is unreliable. It is alligning with Russia and other dictatorships and actively musing about annexing Canada. I don’t see this as a value judgment.

Agreed. This stupid back and forth is exhausting and a massive waste of time. But as you can see, I am at the “burn it all” phase and getting pretty pissed off at US behaviour 🤣.

We are not cancelling it… yet. Seems US wants to renegotiate everything… this is everything. Communicating uncertainty is very good. I would do this for the next two weeks… everytime they mention 51st state.

Hard disagree… I was always a supporter of F35, but you need to account for new information. US is unreliable or downright a national security threat. We need to assess this new developments and adjust. Staying the course is just wishful thinking.

This is about signaling. Good Stratcom… signal some idea, let Lockheed freak out and call Trump. Only way to change WH behaviour is through US.

Beyond the political dimension, the F35 could become another extorsion raquet. Do we trust the US to provide the upgrades or not remote/kill our planes?

Trump’s anti-NATO turn could sink F-35 sales Allies are questioning their reliance on U.S.-made weapons, experts and former defense officials warn.

If the world stops buying American weaponry, what happens to the US arms industry? They’re not going to be happy with Donald Trump, are they?

Portugal rules out buying F-35s because of Trump The country’s air force has recommended buying the jets, but the outgoing defense minister said “the predictability of our allies” must be taken into account when making procureme…

Portugal rules out buying F-35s because of Trump – POLITICO
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Transnationalism and Populist Networks in a Digital Era: Canada and the Freedom Convoy Abstracts. The growth and success of right-wing populist movements globally has been remarkable since the early 2010s. Indeed, populist parties in Europe,

Worried about US interference in Canadian society?… we have some data on that. academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

Emmanuel Macron with the chiefs of staff of 34 allied free nations. The US is not invited.

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Europe Can’t Trust the U.S. Anymore One Trump administration was a mistake; two Trump administrations will be read, correctly, as a divergence that can never be repaired.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

US is medsing around the Ukrainian F16… maybe we need to cancel our F35 purchase. We can’t trust American platforms if we don’t have full control of it.

just taking tonight to really appreciate all these years of journalistic tut-tut-tutting about how over-the-top it was for anyone to focus on trump's affinity for russia and putin.

Trump’s betting Canada will fold, but this is a country that spent 30 years fighting Denmark over a rock in the Arctic just for the principle of it.

How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements.

The Canadian government should plan for the end of NORAD as a binational command and our expulsion from Five Eyes:

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

China targetting Canada again with a spamouflage campaign www.international.gc.ca/transparency...

"Sir, the Truck guys are pro-Trudeau now."

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When you are going back on core values (especially this one which is foundational to the others), it's an ethical failure.