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  • Russia/Ukraine war: Russia will get some territory and thats about it, probrally just the Russian majority areas. After that the EU will intimidate Russia to back off.

    This is one may cool down. Definitely would not have under Harris. This is the big ww3 fear.

    India/China border dispute: They’ll make a lot of noise, actural fighting is unlikely

    They have resolved their territorial dispute, or at least made a major agreement that mostly resolves it.







  • Overall good points, but:

    The most potent political lesson of the past four years is that politicians who preside over rising prices – regardless of their role in causing them – will swiftly feel the wrath of their voters. The public is furious about inflation, whether it comes from transient covid supply chain shocks, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or cartels using “inflation” as cover for illegal, collusive price-gouging.

    GOP complaining about inflation and deficits is them finding something to complain about a strong economy. PP/canada conservatives complaining about carbon tax is supporting Ukrainian nazis while global diesel/home heating fuel refining was at maximum capacity. The Ukrainian support was common to all parties. They had to make up complaints.

    Some other things Canada can do is export taxes on resources and energy. The US can’t replace Canada where it is needed in short term.

    The big policy change is opening up FDI to China. Can put restrictions on natural resources to also invest in manufacturing using those resources, but treating the US as the only permissible option for investment is bad for Canadian companies and jobs. While Canadians are firmly programed in US foreign policy propaganda, if Trump/US adopts a “coercion until you accept being a territorial posession”, Canada needs to take a friendlier stance towards Russia, North Korea, China, and deprogram itself from US empire bs. It should continue advertising secession and provincehood to US states.



  • It’s much much worse than this, and saying 2070-2090 growth might be 1% instead of 2% or 2% instead of 4% is a fairly useless comment.

    First, healthcare insurance in US is 16% of GDP while most developed countries are 11% or lower. Even with free/universal healthcare. Most countries have higher life expectancy. I cite this just to say that bringing US healthcare costs down to 11% of GDP is an automatic GDP reduction of 5%. But that GDP is BS. It is GDP generated by overspending and corruption.

    Current effects of global warming on the US includes insurance costs. Where insurance is mandatory, it is GDP growth if artificially expensive vehicles and homes do not affect ownership. Expensive insurance is not an actual life benefit, even if it grows GDP.

    Drought and flooding and hurricane events, grow GDP by replacing property, even if that too does not create life/wealth improvements. Food scarcity events will make food more expensive. GDP growth, life diminishment.

    Cost of living related to survival needs, where even luxury homes and transportation are included in survival category, is the real impact of global warming. Your money left over after survival expenses is your “real net income”. Global warming impacts can be measured now, and what needs to be projected for near and decades future. These headlines are dumb and unpersuasive.

    Cocoa and coffee are both currently impacted by global warming. Both are addictive substances, though coffee is more.


  • U.S. sponsored and sponsors many movements around the globe as long as their goals align. That money alone can’t invalidate the cause.

    USSC declares money is speech. You not only agree, but go further that money is truth. Naziism and Islamist fascism is truth. Democracy, and political power, is much cheaper in smaller countries made less stable with US extortion and war. Navalny caught on video soliciting MI6 for funding to destabilize Russia. Hong Kong media mogul fomenting protests because of Americas values.

    The US empire’s values are extortion, control, puppetry, and war whitewashed/described with a facade of liberal freedom. Every country is to be a pawn for the empire to the detriment of their population. The political establishment’s disdain for Americans provides no valid expectation for the empire to promote humanism elsewhere. Just propaganda.



  • Ukraine war was for the oligarchy. Administration justified the job creation of giving weapons, oil industry was funded with ammunition/profits to support Republicans and global warming denial, Europe subjugated to extortion and terrorism, and Blackrock has been able to buy up Ukrainian assets, especially farm land, at deep discounts, with Ukrainian loans likely to be swapped with more assets in the future.

    Tech/AI oligarchy has been incorporated into “national security arms of fascism” with their competition suppressed, and Israel and low taxes for these ultra high margin tech oligarchs encouraged to fund the most pro oligarch candidate. Israel first oligarchs, which Biden/DNC pandered to, ensured the election result.

    US extreme corruption of democracy for oligarchy and empire, including by Biden, as worst so far, is just firmly entrenched now that Israel supremacism is top US political devotion.