would buying weapons from lockheed martin save us from putin?

no; that's the exact opposite lesson to learn from ukraine.

russia attacked ukraine because nato was dumping weapons into it, which it saw as a threat.

it follows that it is actually rather obvious that the best way to make ourselves a target is to buy weapons and the best means of protection is to not buy weapons, as the russians are only likely to attack out of self-defense.

i think this is completely ass-backwards, anyways. canada and russia are extremely similar and should be trying to work together to build an alliance. we will need the russians to help us defeat the chinese.

talking to joe rogan for an hour, and probably arguing with him for most of it, would not have won kamala harris the election.

to the extent that there's some valid concern underlying the question regarding whether democrats are able to reach what they call independents, unaligned voters, low information voters and generally unpolitical citizens, you can't undo the 10 years of targeting these people that trump has invested in with an hour of time.

further, the entire point is that trump is not kamala harris and kamala harris is kamala harris, in the sense that she's an establishment politician. these voters or non-voters are simply not politically aligned with the kamala harrises of the world, they are politically aligned directly against the kamala harrises, and she would have little chance of swinging them.

what that suggests is that if the democrats want to access these voters, and they no doubt should, that they should be running candidates that appeal to them, which would be somebody like bernie sanders and not somebody like kamala harris.

the next democratic primary will probably be very open and a candidate that appeals to non-voters will have a better chance.

democrats need to understand that kamala harris was a bad candidate that couldn't win and that the only tactic the party has is to stop running bad candidates that can't win. there is nothing she could have done differently besides not running in the first place.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/27/harris-campaign-democrats

this is not how americans think at all. if you attack their institutions, they'll bomb you. this is the dumbest approach possible.

the primary goal of the federal government should be to prevent a recession, to make reciprocal demands about the border and to broadcast that we will not comply with their other concerns (like their bitching about nato spending, which means buying things from their military-industrial complex, as nato is a protection racket) so long as the tariffs are in place and then wait.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tariff-canada-retaliate-trump-1.7394432