I went to bed to read Friday night. Then I heard a helicopter after 9 pm. Poking my head out back in the dark, it was a helicopter, for sure. It looks like some poor soul was taken from Perth Hospital to somewhere! Mystery solved. No attack...
Historical Notes
I live with someone who remembers the World History. Since High School (1960s) he was a keener on such. Joe will pop out some gems I either did not know or have forgotten. Of course, he'll read a 600-page book which examines two months in one particular war or another. He'll give me the Coles Notes version.
This is what Joe talked about most recently...
Munich Agreement 🇩🇪
In 1938, Neville Chamberlain gave up part of Czechoslovakia, without Czech input, to appease Hitler in the Munich Agreement. Hitler annexed the remainder of Czechoslovakia in March. Then he began by invading Poland in September, which began World War II.
With #47 vowing to end the war on Ukraine, and Vance overseas demanding Ukraine sign off on lost territory, history is trying to repeat itself. It's about land, rare earth minerals, and power.
Budapest Memorandum ðŸ‡ðŸ‡º (1994 Wiki):
The world struck an agreement between the parties involved[3] :
The memoranda... prohibited Russia, the U.S. and the UK from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, "except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations." As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons.[4][5]
This is the situation, with U.S. working in cahoots with Russia to get Ukraine to give up for a peace deal. The U.S. is doing this behind Ukraine's back, without their input.
You can understand how upset Canada is, with threats of annexation and being the 51st state. History only repeats itself.
The phrase "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" is attributed to George Santayana, who wrote it in 1905.
Then, there is Puerto Rico! It's not a state, not treated equally, and is an 'unincorporated territory' of the U.S. The felon from Mar-A-Lago is not empathetic towards weaker people who need a hand up. The poor, refugees, disabled, unhoused, those needing healthcare, LGBTQ+, elderly, are on their own.
The U.S. government has a long history of invasions: most recently Vietnam, Afghanistan, and they annexed Mexico back in the day. I had no idea.
A good read:
This is what is going on over at Twitter X: so much for freedom of speech! He and his goons in short pants have somehow gotten access to personnel files, the treasury, USAID, CDC.
Even the snow is attacking us! I'm going to have to go out and shovel some snow. Last measurement gave us 25 cm. I did the driveway Sunday and konked out. The sidewalk will take some time as it snowed from Saturday until Sunday night. After this the winds began to create piles of drifting snow.
Rant over, time for coffee.
10 comments:
You have a lot of snow there. I feel for Ukraine, I hope they can get help from other allies. It seems like no one can expect help from the US and the current administration. Take care, have a great day and a wonderful week ahead.
Hari OM
Yup, an endless cycle of megolamania reaching its zenith again... YAM xx
We shall do our best wrt both the weather and the jackass.
There are no limits to what they (M&T) will try. Outlandish and illegal seem to be their favorite topics. I'm ok cause I'm going to go up the cable elevator to the hidden moon colony on the far side of the moon, managed by the Chinese probably. Oh, the elevator's base is on the space station, but is always erased from any photos we are shown. La la la la!
Yes, Mexico used to be much larger, I remember being astonished when I found that out.
It is quite a mess in the U.S. I'm hoping tRump can be stopped, but I'm not sure our opposing politicians have any backbone. Maybe sane Canada can annex the U.S., please. Pace yourself tending to the snow. It will wait for you. Linda in Kanss
The police helicopter is over us so often it doesn't even warrant a look from me most times. Glad it wasn't an attack. lol
Andrew Coyne has always been a particularly insightful journalist, but that article is seriously frightening. Heather Cox Richardson writes in similar tones.
I am ignorant about elements of your government but is there anything that as part of the Commonwealth that can be done? I don't think DT can annex Canada without a vote of Canadians. And I'm pretty sure he won't do a military thing, so don't worry about helicopters in the night. I wouldn't discount his desire and I certainly hope your government has a plan, but I suspect much of this talk is to distract the US public from some of the really major and dangerous things he is doing in our own country. A recent poll here indicated that the VAST majority of Americans, even Maggats, don't support the Canada plan. I know I don't -- and I know I'm far from alone.
We all have the same rant about the issues around Trump.
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