All this raises the question: Why has the US president chosen to upend trade relations on the North American continent?

It’s because the trade agreement trump’s unhappy with was made by a raging moron.

agree, but these are supposed “democrats” who give in to the total horseshit GOP messaging. This is why I don’t think the original post’s content is real:

Image going to the tailgaiting party or to a southern baptist church and tell them about urban democrats’ failures. They won’t switch DEM. They’ll say that Faux News was right all along and will confirm all of their beliefs in the radical right wing propaganda.

I smell bullshit here, but yeah this is definitely a laundry list of exactly the stuff not to do. A moderate democrat is a Krysten Sinema and a Joe Manchin that exactly did a lot of damage to Democrats.

Also, owning up to democratic governance issues of large cities? Republicans run <20% of America’s top 50 cities, and 10% of the top 30. Republicans are not in the business of running large cities, so WTF would give credence to them on a topic they literally have no expertise or relevant track record in doing.

I remain unimpressed by CNN reporters because he has not asked the most important question: What will guarantee Russia’s adherence to any kind of peace deal?

It’s boring to repost it the Nth time but the 1994 Budapest Memorandum was quite clear about these matters:

1. Respect the signatory’s independence and sovereignty in the existing borders
2. Refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of the signatories…
3. Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest…
4. Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they “should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used”.

Yet, putin kicked nearly every single point in the memorandum the moment he felt ready. Why would the same leader act differently in the future?

It’s eerily similar in my view to the Abraham accords. Trump negotiated bypassing Palestinians and then we got Oct 7 and the war that spiraled from it. These “deals” are as flimsy as a CyberTruck, but it’s also very trumpy. He gets to act like a peacemaker and then his successor will deal with the consequent shit. Same thing happened in Afghanistan.

*edit: also, if someone wants to be “fair” (i’d rather say naive) one can consider the official Russian narrative, but again that narrative explicitly goes against the Budapest Memorandum, meaning, they are very open about not respecting treaties they sign.

Canada NEEDS to replace political-parties with something intelligent, honest, and responsible!

you missed the “/s”

The most telling statistic about Russia’s trustworthiness is that every single independent country that shares a border with Russia on the West has mandatory military service and those in the same region without a shared border with Russia don’t.

No surprise there. Couches are known to need long courting.

Not sure if European couches are into the whole eyeliner thing.

At this point I’m convinced that his obsession with X is that it’s the closest letter to the swastika. Just imagine: Space Swastika. Model Swastika. Swastika dot com. etc.