I wish you all the luck. May Turkish democracy prevail!

If you are Jewish or have known Jewish ancestry, Nazi Germany may deny entry. It’s better to check the entry requirements with Nazi authorities in advance.

There might be a reshuffle in geopolitics. Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela, are traditionally allies of Russia and opponents of the US. Something will have to change, I believe.

We might see Armenia align with the US and aforementioned countries, if Turkey stays aligned with Europe. Which will likely be the case, I believe.

China is the wildcard here. I can see them align with either camp.

I think Australia won’t have to choose. They might stay somewhat neutral.

I was so annoyed in 2012 when we were protesting the tuition fee hike in Québec that people were pointing to other provinces or the US for their higher tuition fees, instead of, like, North European countries, and many others, where it’s free.

As a citizen of Canada, this has become relatable.

I think there are no absolutes here. Some women will wait for a long term partner, and a fraction of that group will have children by accident before finding one, and some other women don’t wait for one (especially in a context where men don’t abound), etc. What women do overall is the amalgation of millions of specific biographies concerning unique women.

They’re the Austrian who likes Hitler.

It feels like everything politicians and officials say nowadays would have made sense if they said it one year ago.

They’re closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.

Why not film them in NYC?

Elon Musk threatened the UK.

http://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/01/06/elon-musk-asks-if-us-should-liberate-britain.html

By 2013, it was clear that Ukraine’s democratic facade was crumbling. […] The Party of Regions controlled the Cabinet, the Parliament (Verkhovna Rada), and most local councils. Its leading [financial-political groups] also controlled most of the courts, the police, the tax administration, and major state-owned industrial companies—in other words, the lion’s share of the economy.

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2016/02/a-decisive-turn-risks-for-ukrainian-democracy-after-the-euromaidan?lang=en

Doesn’t look much like a healthy democracy to me.

And the 2014 coup being backed by Western powers appears to me to merely be a Kremlin talking point. Do you have any reliable source to backup that claim?

Feels like Canada is like Austria before WW2

the US has denser cities than most of Europe

Citation very needed

Yes. Standing united can mean also that we recognize that right to self-rule is beneficial to all.

Thanks. I’m happy to see we stand united across frontiers.

Will conflicts stop escalating?

I feel like Canada being only 1/10th of the US’s population, it doesn’t matter much. It would be much better to hurt them with something fundamental to other parts of the economy, like lumber, oil, parts…

I live right next to the port of Montréal, so I can provide info if you want. But I know nothing about ports. All I can say is that there’s a lot of containers, big round things (to store oil?), and various industry including sugar, beer, some battery-related chemistry, among other things.

There’s another port, also close to where I live, that’s actually in another city. But it seems to be a city mostly for industry. It has only a mere 2000 inhabitants, and a lot of industry, especially oil. The city has the uninspiring name of “Montréal-est”.

USSR dissolved in 1991 when its last member state, Khazakstan, left. Russia, which had left the union prior, found itself with a lot of nuclear warheads. Other ex-member states agreed to hand the nukes they had to Russia. Having nuclear weapons and having the means to maintain them and launch them, Russia naturally joined the Security Council in 1991.

It’s kind of a revolution though because it all started with Maydan and the ousting of Russian puppet Yanukovitch.