It was not an energy ceasefire. It was a gift to Putin. A White House official told Axios that, as Trump understands it, the term means only that Russia and Ukraine stop attacking each other's oil refineries—and that this is what Washington expects Ukraine to do. Ukraine has one refinery, while Russia has 38, of which 21 have been targeted by Ukrainian drones.

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[–] 47 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Fuck the wine… Canadians are getting seized at the border. Do NOT go to America. It sucks there. There’s nothing good there. And you could die there.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    No really, they have arrest quotas and a disconnect from reality, with a dash of bigoted asshole. That guy cares about his bottom line and nothing else, you'll get thrown in a camp. It's not worth the risk.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    Do you have any info on people getting seized at the border? I am traveling to the US at the end of November. I have heard rumors, but not much concrete.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    I don’t. But I wouldn’t risk it either. Nothing in America is worth it.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Canadians are getting seized at the border.

    Great, I'll just tag you as fearmonger - good to know.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Mmk, I don't doubt a future exists where the U.S. starts pulling more shit like this but I'm also not about to start doing the fascists job by fearmongering. If that makes me ignorant, so be it.

    Also, Canadians have spent time in ICE custody in the past year - as far as I can see, however, none of them have been tourists. They've been people who immigrated, whether they're green card holders or legal residents.

    So yeah, fascism bad, fearmongering bad. I'd definitely recommend that other user do whatever they can to get their GF out if they can - but you need to research the word vomit you think about spewing.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    I don't know I live/am trapped in the US and I don't feel comfortable encouraging it.

    Do you look "white"? Then maybe but even seeing myself have to honestly make that stipulation makes me nauseous and unconfident to say it is safe here for anyone.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 weeks ago

    17 more refineries to go.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I wonder what back doors NATO equipment has that the US can use to turn off equipment.

    If NATO decides to go rogue and turn on the US, I doubt their equipment will work for very long.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    “It’s not [x], it’s [y]”

    [screams and starts destroying furniture]

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Gonna be hard to be against China in this envorment. I fine with trade with them. It this situation is becoming impossible unless euro and Canada significantly bolster ties.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago

    The whole world is using Ukraine as a training ground. Yes we're technically siding with the oppressed... but we cannot truthfully say that 100% of the motivation is protecting Ukrainian sovereignty and/or mitigating Russian aggression. EoD militaries need soldiers with combat experience; especially given how rapidly fpv drones have changed the landscape of warfare.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    China is literally keeping slaves, openly and without shame. They've taken Tibet and Taiwan. Like.. let's not be cool with China, yeah?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    They've not taken Taiwan idk where you got that idea, and America uses slave labor and side with slaver country's frequently as well, if the aren't openly attacking us I don't the issue with us selling from a country that isn't any worse then America, if we don't we won't have much anyone to trade with unless a the global south suddenly decides trading with us is a good idea.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    I mean those datacenter hits hurt the participation levels on both their websites, of course they would both retaliate against Ukraine.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    The USA is the problem, not Trump.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    Stop buying crap from these countries. They are a literally our enemies.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Not for long. You know how frequently trump changes his opinion

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Yes this is a good point to bring up, it is easy to forget after seeing Trump backstab good people over and over again that Trump will backstab bad people too if he is pressured into doing so and the bad people begin to be appearing to lose.

    I genuinely have no doubt Trump wants Putin to win but this is made irrelevant by the fact that Trump is a massive fucking coward who pathologically cannot be caught being on the loser side and will always betray everybody around him to jump ship to the winning side. Just read about how pathologically Trump is incapable of losing at casual golf to other people, it is seriously fucking deranged... and then apply that to Trump being cornered into being one of Putin's last real allies and it is obvious he is going to backstab Putin too if we bully Trump enough.

    So... I make sure to do my part by calling Trump a loser for siding with losers.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    sad but true

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    If this isn't already happening we're so screwed

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    we are fucked, as far long as we need russian/US oil&gas and chinese chips

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    I don't think it's about treating China like an enemy but more about becoming over reliant on them. If we get on their bad side (which we problaby will at some point) how fucked are we if they stop trade with us?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    I mean you have to trade with one or the other preferably both. They are by far the largest economies in the world. What do you replace them with? You can't, sure trade with everyone else also but unless you want to severly limit your market you don't have a choice.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    Canadian gov/Canadian military are working with/for U.S.

    China hasn't done a fucking thing to us. Russia/Ukraine war needs diplomacy not clumsy kabuki theatre to get the masses on board the imperialism train.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    So diplomacy which probably involves Ukraine giving up some land?

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  • [–] -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    It's funny how Canadians hyper focus on the status of Ukrainian land sovereignty, but couldn't give two shits about the rights of south Americans or Africans living under the boot of Canadian mining interests, or even for the land or resource sovereignty of Canadian or Australian indigenous peoples.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Russia is welcome to diplomatically leave Ukraine whenever the fuck they want.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 weeks ago

    NATO has completely surrounded Russia, North Korea and China with Nukes and proxies.

    The west has almost completely abandoned international law.

    Russia has zero incentive to end this attrition war. North Korea and China have zero incentive to stop supporting it.

    If they did, there is every indication to them that Ukraine would be another nuclear armed NATO proxy.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Just that orange guy. Remember that.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    And several nukes.

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  • [+] -12 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    A literal Nazi state doesn't deserve any support.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Ah yes, a private military company being questionable is totally the same thing as state sanctioned Nazism.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Pretty much everything Wagner does has always been approved by Putin, it's why he used them to do the nasty work he couldn't make Russian troops do (e.g fighting in places where Russia isn't officially fighting at all)

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