the travel advisory to china was the right approach all along.

we can't be getting into some kind of quid pro quo on hostages or something. it's medieval.

that said, you won't find me shedding much of a tear for meth dealers, either. that stuff is death - and i wouldn't be opposed to charging a person like that with a thousand counts of attempted murder. as a rule, i don't support capital punishment, but meth dealers are a special category of scum, and should be locked up for life with no chance of parole.

it is not safe to travel in china.

i repeat.: it is not safe to travel in china.

the democrats are a bourgeois party, and they don't want to cut off the flow of illegal labour - nor do they want to improve their working conditions. but, there is no body in the american political spectrum that represents the interests of working people, so you're left with this charade, where you need to pick between passive and active repression.

there is no flow of cheap labour from canada; rather, we seem to be acting as an escape route. so, we're a better target for a bourgeois party, such as this.

that said, i would welcome some increased border security around areas like roxham road. and, don't fool yourself - if the democrats decide to switch directions, the point is going to be keep the unskilled labour from flowing out.

i would advocate working with them to erect the appropriate barriers.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4845968/democrats-u-s-government-shutdown-canada-border/

this is actually quite reasonable, even if i think it's something the united nations ought to be doing, rather than the turks themselves.

there needs to be some kind of buffer zone, in the short term. a 30 km buffer is not the turkish invasion of syria that people are worried about....

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/turkey-syria-safe-zone-border-erdogan-trump-withdrawal-troops-kurds-a8729126.html

another approach would be to send some missiles into some israeli airfields, and, that would be proportionate.

but, they have to do something - they can't just let the israelis bomb them with impunity.

i understand that the israelis are trying to pull the russians south, to give the turks easy passage into the north, and that biting is in some sense taking the bait.

but, as is so often the case in this region, it doesn't matter. the primary concern is not in keeping the turks out of the north, but in safeguarding the south. so, if the israelis want to pull the fighting south, the reaction should be to push it very far to the south - all the way to jerusalem.

the best response is probably to focus on a targetted assassination through brute force.

turn his house into a crater.

this idiot netanyahu is going to start world war three, in order to try and win an election.

the russians basically have no choice but to respond. and, whatever they do should be swift and lethal.

it is finally time to teach the israelis a lesson that they will learn from.

why are we using up valuable resources on american senators?

send him back to kentucky.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/rand-paul-hernia-canada-shouldice-1.4978260