i want to repeat that: the american occupation of germany must not end anytime soon.

but eastern europe should be completely cut off from us military aid.

eastern europe is of no strategic value to the united states whatsoever and not a single penny or a single drop of blood should be expended on it.

let the russians spend the next 50 years reconquering it, if they insist. this is of no interest to the united states, and of no interest to canada.

i certainly hope that the americans, at least, stop sending money to fight an unjust and immoral war in ukraine, after this.

why should the united states continue to position missile defense systems in the baltics, for example?

the us should maintain a large occupation force in germany, and otherwise begin to withdraw from europe.

the president wants to eliminate income taxes and replace them with tariff revenues. it's a tax shift from income to consumption - highly regressive and broadly economically stupid according to most economists, but massively beneficial to the ultra-rich.

for that reason, these kinds of discussions will not be on the table. donald trump does not care about bringing back manufacturing jobs, he cares about reducing income taxes.

it is extremely unlikely that this policy will outlast donald trump. we will need to have this discussion when trump is gone, which will be soon, but which is not now.

it's consequently not clear what the purpose of mr polievre's announcement is, other than to try to confuse union voters with false promises and illusory policies.

these discussions will be necessary...with the next administration. right now, canada has to wait, and should probably avoid renegotiating nafta altogether, until a new administration comes in. this administration is not interested in trade or in jobs, it's interested in replacing income taxes with import taxes.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/unifor-reacts-to-conservative-auto-plan/

you know, it would be really useful if canada had a state owned gas company right now, like it used to.

it's a shame what happened with that.

it was predictable that the ndp would swing hard to the right. 

we'll see hows voters react to that.

i don't expect that this strategy will work in alberta, and may just alienate ndp voters.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/alberta-legislature/article/albertas-smith-says-she-took-private-flight-on-behalf-of-saudi-government/