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That article is hilarious for so many reasons: "Slava Ukraine" (Glory to Ukraine) by itself is not a fascist slogan - it needs to be in conjunction with another phrase meaning "Glory to the Heroes". That's my understanding based on a little bit of research and asking some Ukraine friends. It goes on to say: " As Deputy Prime Minister, she [Minister Freeland, in her role as Minister of Finance is what they actually mean] has unveiled many of the brutal sanctions adopted by Ottawa against Russia, which amount to economic warfare and will have their most devastating impact on the lives of ordinary people." Most of Canada's economic sanctions are against Russian oligarchs and their assets in Canada, as well as entities they control. Additionally, Canada-Russia bilateral trade is so little, any other economic sanctions will have no impact - they are a show of political solidarity in the face of an act of war conducted by Russia. The article also says: "...the Canadian ruling class is clearly attempting to exploit this outrage, together with widespread political confusion about the background to the conflict, to marshal support for NATO’s proxy war against Russia." NATO was not engaged in a proxy war with Russia. NATO expansionism has already been addressed in this thread - but I will add a PDF that explains this in IR terms. It next goes on to say: "Ukrainian nationalism firmly established itself in Canada after 1945, when the Liberal government of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent undertook to admit tens of thousands of Nazi collaborators from Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. The established communities of Eastern European immigrants in Canada prior to the war had been politically dominated by socialists and the left. St. Laurent was determined to provide them with new leadership." Which explains of course why every single National Socialist or Nazi party in Canadian history has been led by former Germans, and not a single member of a Nazi-related party has ever been elected to Canadian parliament. Canada additionally has a strong history of arresting and jailing Nazis and fascists or deporting them. (PDF link) It then concludes its' fantasy by saying "Far-right Ukrainian nationalists are now at the very center of Canada’s foreign policy." Which is so far-fetched I can't even begin to address the inane nature of the statement. As has been pointed out several times, the Azov battalion makes up approximately 2~3% of Ukranian forces fighting against the Russian invaders. That is a gallery with 3 photos in it. Out of the thousands of photos coming out of the invasion, you found 3. Well done. For clarity - Right Sector is a political party, not an armed group. In 2015, they had 2 nominal representatives (members who ran as independents and not on the party platform) in the Ukrainian parliament. In the 2019 election, they won none. In fact - "In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Right Sector took part on a united radical right nationwide-party list with the Governmental Initiative of Yarosh, National Corps, and Svoboda. This combination won 2.15% of the nationwide election list vote and no seats.[38] This election the party did not win a single-mandate constituency parliamentary seat." So they ran a united radical right nationwide party - and won 2.15% (in keeping with the proportion of the Azov battalion to total fighting forces), with NO parliamentary seats - or in other words, support declined. Are Nazis bad? Of course they are. Does the Ukraine have a SEVERE Nazi problem? Not really. They exist and are bad. Why you're trying to obfuscate the issue here with this whole "Nazis are taking over" rhetoric is completely unclear, except for it provides you a vehicle to mouth off at NATO and through that, "the evil imperialists". I fucking promised myself I wouldn't engage with you, but goddamn, this is almost as dumb as your previous statements under your incarnation as a red-pill MRA warrior. I won't repeat them, because as you have rightfully pointed out, you made them, learned, and changed your perspective. Much respect for that. However, it's also worse, because you're insulting the hell out of Ukraine and Russian citizens (the ones who keep getting arrested for protesting the war) who are suffering for Putin's hubris. IR Theory Guide to Ukraine's War - (Walt - FP 2022).pdf

Time for your meds dad.

I guess some of you may be interested in this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCva7xBQlC_a06OvVqfoj0fg I only found out about it because my friend gave a talk on there (he rambles a bit at the beginning, forgive him, he's in academia):

Not wrong - the Conservative party here suddenly voted along with other parties to remove barriers for Ukrainian refugees: https://www.lakelandtoday.ca/beyond-local/canadas-ukraine-refugee-plan-praised-but-questions-raised-about-other-war-escapees-5126789 Compare that to the Conservative response to the Syrian crisis (they had a majority government at the time): https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-conservatives-message-syrian-refugees-1.3226039 And more recently, our approach to the Afghan refugees after the Taliban took over (better than Syria, but still not great): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-continues-welcome-more-afghan-224200987.html To add on that, because our Immigration branch is so short staffed (like virtually all federal government departments here), the delays are going to be huge: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/petawawa-ont-group-worried-syrian-refugee-family-will-take-back-seat-to-ukrainian-immigration-1.5813060

So much freedom.

would you like a complimentary NFT dipping sauce?

Lol the chart for the exchange rate really puts it in perspective:

ca c'est le brassage de marde fantastique.

as logakght said - use soundcloud and buy off bandcamp. easy-peasy. And pirate away - if you're going to screw the artists, don't at least make Daniel Ek and his fucking ilk rich.

Why are you still using spotify? They are like the embodiment of unregulated capitalism. Not even I use spotify.

I knew someone would say this. Is that what I said? Read carefully.

It’s the best way. Unless in public, then of course you just pull out and spray like a firehose.

You spent half the thread yammering on about NATO. Regardless, you truly seem to think that America is the greatest evil in the world, despite providing you with a level of comfort almost unparalleled in history, with the ability to say basically whatever the fuck you want without worrying about getting arrested or disappeared. The azov battalions make up approx 2% of Ukraine fighting forces, let alone the general population of the Ukraine. they also received a massive boost when Russia annexed Crimea, which you manage to elide consistently when discussing them.

:giant shrug emoji:

He’s not defending Putin. He’s making sure we all know “America bad too, electric boogaloo”

You can tell shit is really bad when even the Japanese major corps are fleeing. Look how long it took Kirin to exit its operations in Myanmar as an example of companies who put profit first.

Those two will really hurt, no microchips will wreck their industry. Wonder if they will block the provision of AWS services.

I think you should try harder to strawman my argument. None of what you said resembles anything that I said.

Entirely wrong. Please read all of Wealth of Nations (to find out how much space Smith devoted to division of labour) Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (to see how Schumpeter ties innovation to capitalism and entrepreneurship, as well as how this will lead to socialism) as well as this short article on long economic waves: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1816829 (you can easily find on the high seas). Competition leads to variation, and well-regulated competition leads to enhanced markets with multiple players. Note that the US (and Canada) is not a well-regulated marketplace. Corporatism, which exists in all sorts of fascist states, may well lead to imperialism, but corporatism is antithetical to capitalism. Your observations on Russia's invasion of the Ukraine are interesting.

yes comrade. specialization and competition leads to more innovation. Not saying none happens under communism, but there is less incentive to innovate under a "true" communist system.

Russia is crony capitalist to the hilt - i think what you mean is (and forgive me if my interpretation is wrong) - if Russia wasn't governed by a corrupt-as-fuck dictator, and had a more regulated form of capitalism that allowed the wealth from Russian natural resources to be distributed more equitably while still maintaining capitalist innovative spirit, would we be in this situation?

This actually made me laugh. Fantastic work by the lazy bureaucrats in Ukraine’s tax office.

The best thing about this approach is that, if it doesn't come to pass as old-man brainfart says, he can just turn around and say "god's will told Putin to back out" or "God provided strength to American allies". Luckily, old man pat doesn't have the greatest track record with predictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#Predictions

Yeah I have Serbian and Croatian friends, and that whole clusterfuck/genocide left a sour taste in a lot of people's mouths who had been friends previously. One of my friends has a Serbian dad with a Croatian mom, and he says their family get-togethers can be....fractious.

Yes that's fair, and sorry I was a little snippish - long morning at work already lol. The sanctions may work in this case because of how punishing they are, but it will still take months to bring real pain to bear on Putin. The oligarchs may feel it more strongly at first (for example, if Abramovich is required to sell Chelsea) and that may be an avenue for success.