Canada doesn’t need nuclear weapons, does Iraq ring a bell to you how the USA straight up invaded and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people because of “rumors” of WMDs? And the weakest Intel? That kind of talk can gtfo
The lesson of Iraq is not develop no nukes or the USA might invade you. The lesson of Iraq is that even if you definitely don't have any WMDs the US might lie about it anyways and justify invading you with the lie.
I don't really agree with this. While technically true, the reality of our system is that almost all votes are whipped so your local representative is going to be rubber stamping a party line 99% of the time. What's more, in my opinion that's a good thing. I live in a small town with a depressing local news situation and finding out what candidates in municipal elections even stand for can be a PITA. Much better to be able to look at a party platform and know that should the rep I want win they will be going along with that platform. Individual personalities are less important than policy positions, anyways.
The target has already been moved from 2% of GDP to 5%. With the expectation that most of that money would be spent on procurement from the US. If we accept the shakedown, why wouldn't it happen again?
Caroline Mulroney, Brian Mulroney's daughter. Brian, blessedly, remains dead.
Not banned. I'm being the change I want to see.
You'll be happy to know that lemmy's monthly active user count has grown ~20% in the last month.
I assure you the National Observer is not a media outlet that was calling for the carbon tax to be cancelled.
Any French commenters able to contextualize this news for the rest of us? Le Pen's party has been gaining popularity in recent years, if I recall correctly. How is this likely to impact them? Are they organized enough to continue on without her, or is this likely to seriously hurt their electoral chances?
It's always good to see a fascist lose but I'm not tuned in enough to French politics to know the full significance of this.
And despite everything, short of a real war we will continue to trade with the US at a reduced capacity. Which is fine. The goal of our trading strategy ought to be diversification to avoid a monopsony-like situation where any individual buyer is buying enough of our exports to severely damage us if they stop (that is, the situation we're in now).
A lot of people have never had the 'flu but think especially bad colds are the 'flu. As someone who has had the real deal, honest-to-god influenza, that shit is not like having a bad cold. It's no joke.