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Putin says Russia will expand presence in the Arctic

Re: Putin says Russia will expand presence in the Arctic

So who's going to stop them? They can also walk the walk.

Placing fear in the sheeple population, to extort $trillions of dollars
in military spending has to be the biggest scam the rich buggers of the world
have ever invented - in human history. So while billionaire Russians supply Europe with oil to heat themselves, those same billionaires fleece the poor Russians, who must pay for
bombs to aim at those Europeans.

BIGGEST.
SCAM.
EVER.

Yeah right. Putin's a threat so we must spend more on military being scammed
out of our own money.

And Putin tells his slaves they also must spend more on military because we're a threat.

That's an old trick.

I remember how urgent it was for Canada to test cruise missiles for our American buddies to the south of us becuase we were told Russia was some sort of threat to us. It turned out the Americans were the biggest threat, and they used those cruise missiles that we helped them test...on Iraqis in the middle east. And Russia never even said 'NO.'

how ironic, just 2 days ago i was listening to "diane francis" a journalist who has written a new book on how US and Canada should merge....she brought up the arctic and says this; "And unless we Canadians embrace a full-fledged union with the United States, she argues, we are destined to become "neo-colonial" vassals of Beijing, and victims of Russian gunboat diplomacy in the Arctic Ocean"

have a read, you might find her proposals interesting, but keep in mind she writes strictly from an economical view point, she cites business is her only motto with this proposal.

Interesting, I think that Jonathan Kay has a good rebuttal.
»fullcomment.nationalpost.com/201···roblems/

I think that the two nations are far better off cooperating through the International Joint Commission, NAFTA, NORAD, NATO, and especially COSTCO.

Instead of using keeping this old 'Cowboys vs Indians', 'Good guys vs Bad guys', 'With us or against us' mentality why not try to negotiate something, create better ties between the countries etc?

Agreed, but there's no job security in that scenario.
Are we in summer reruns again? Are those godless bad commies knocking on our doors, looking to take our resources, then our wimmin, again?
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~ Project Hope ~

They don't knock on doors or take your wimmin. That's just crass.

They hide under your beds and brainwash your childrin.

All I know is I'm scared, someone hold me!

We debunked her credentials the last time you cited her "opinion" pieces, she is still just a paediatric doctor that hasn’t worked in forty years.

The Russians, who have as many $billionaires as anyone else will have no problem the next time USA and their goofy little friends (Canada) agree to invade some country for oil. Because the Russians ($billionaires) also make more money when the price of oil goes up. So they aren't our enemy any more.

re: Military options: Then again all the greenies don't want any extraction of any resources so why waste what little coin we have protecting something that is no real value. We should be building bike lanes for the first nations peoples of the north to get around on. Makes about as much sense.
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Some hero's wear capes, mine wear combat boots.

I got a better idea for Gershom.

Buy stocks in Russian oil company.
Buy stocks in Canadian nuclear sub/military industry.

WIN/WIN situation.

By the way, I love how Russia dealt with ecoterrorists.. Just rounded up everyone who participated in the raid on their oil platform and charged them with piracy

Penticton is getting a Target. That'll be good because we already have American retailer WalMart. In the last thirty years I've watched smaller businesses go broke, while big corporations gradually get bigger and bigger. Soon, a handful of corporations will have 100% control of most of the food and retail in Canada. That'll be nice.

And I've seen BC apple acreage drop from 20,000 acres to 7,000 as many smaller growers just 'disappeared.' Washington state's apple industry is now twenty times as big as we are. I know of three orchardists, all about fifty who suddenly died - probably from exposure to pesticides. I know how hard Canadian farmers must work...just to survive. No subsidies for small farmers any more. Canada doesn't have enough money.

So I can't think of anything more repulsive and obscene as when someone comes along and suggests that Canadian taxpayers should carry a heavier burden by paying 'more' for military instead of less. While a few billionaires in Russia buy yachts bigger than anything I've ever seen in my life, and live like kings in England (Roman Abramovich) I'm supposed to pay for more submarines because Russia's a 'threat?' I'm supposed to pay for bombs, because Russia has ( or had) 'gulags?'

Before I pay one cent for bombs to aim at Russians who can barely afford to heat their house in the winter because their billionaires are sending oil to Europe, I think Europe should boycott Russia, and stop buying oil. Yeah, that's how to punish them for having gulags. Boycott them and stop buying their oil in winter time. But don't tell me to build more bombs, when I'm already losing money selling apples at 1980s prices.

Don't insult my intelligence.

Buy Russian military gear. That should solve all of our problems!