It is not unreasonable to ask why he didn’t use the filibuster to block actual legislation, instead of just I terupting procedure.

Check the article 5 requirement. I don’t see any “unless another NATO country” exceptions.

Probably moot as all the US has to do is increase presence and wait for an “or else” moment, so that they can rely with “or else what?”

I think they are much more enlightened these days. They are happy take brown & yellow if they have enough green.

Then you need to compare salary to something like CPI. What can the money buy?

I understood your statement, but the underlying connotation was “elections are bad”. Elections can be fair. Unfair elections can be restored, but not easily.

It wasn’t even a final peace state, so it could easily have been pushed sideways in the future, and clearly the Americans wanted the win so badly that they would have let anything happen at the finish line.

Eliminating elections would not harm dictators. Elections, like all democratic institutions need to be maintained and supported to maintain a democracy.

He had 6000 feet?

I commented before that I didn’t think that Canadian and have it in them to fight an insurgency, but I have been impressed since then with the Canadian civil and political response since them (Carney more than Ford.) Now I realize that the US has never had to face an insurgency at there border, of ppl who they couldn’t possible recognize. When you hear stories of Ukrainians who speak Russian being very successful as insurgents gives a lot of suggestion of how Canadians could make it really annoying for the U.S. government. Then think of how the border couldn’t all be guarded.

Russia is still ramping up military production on a wartime economy, to be used after the Ukrainians stop fighting back. Also their production focuses on their modern options for land and air. I don’t know what their naval production is doing.

They want the Baltics, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, all to be like Hungary, or preferably like Belarus - slave/puppet authoritarian regimes. Finland too, really, but I think that the Finns scare them.

Sinophobia and russophobia are terms that refer to ethnic racism, heavy leveraged by tankies to position political disagreement as racist. In these cases I don’t think that the fear was a ethnic based, but rather capitalist or nationalist.

The fear is still unjustified. It’s like thinking that you can trust Amazon more than Ali, or Google more than Xiaomi.

There is plenty of racism against Chinese/Asian people, which is a different level of vile.

Does Nordstream connect Russia to the US?

All of the people there are now classified as Indigenous

You are right

It is still a democracy, but that democracy is in crisis. You will know over the next 2/years if it will survive, although the next federal election will be the real test.

• if the judicial and congress still share power,
• if elections are still fair.

Democracies can recover if they keep their representation.

It is capitalist perspective, but not propaganda.

If there is meant to be capitalist competition then the competitors should not be massively funded by the government. China massively funds their electric car industry, principally because they own them.

That said, US carmakers get Government bailouts all the time.

Approval ratings only impact elections

It’s a slippery slope fallacy to suggest that supporting Ukraine means that they will be enlisted and sent to the front lines.

far down the slippery slope on this one.