Tyler Shipley

Can't imagine why Carney would be eager to protect data centres in the region.

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So while I'm sympathetic to the sentiment that many members of the current US administration are openly announcing themselves as war criminals, I worry that sitting back and waiting for the machinery of war-criminal-prosecution to happen reflects a serious misunderstanding of how such justice works.

And this is only the high-ranked Nazis we are talking about. Mid-level Nazis were desperately trying to get out of the socialist bloc (where they would be jailed or executed) and tens of thousands found refuge in the west. (Canada became a haven for Banderites from Ukraine, Ustaše from Croatia, etc)

So while the Allies were still Allied and trying to cooperate in the defeat of Nazi Germany, and with the public demanding justice for Nazi crimes, some measure of accountability was doled out through the Nuremberg process. However, it was short-lived and often undermined. Many Nazis walked free.

One major problem with the war crimes tribunals was that the western powers - particularly the US - were secretly exfiltrating captured Nazis back to Washington to work for them. Reinhard Gehlen, for instance, was a high-ranking Nazi whom the CIA recruited to run the secret police in West Germany.

Scholarship on this period indicates that without Soviet pressure, the Nuremberg trials might never have happened. The terms were premised on the work of a Soviet lawyer, Aron Trainin, but lost some of their strength as Allied powers worried they could set standards they, too, would have to follow.

Ok, but nevertheless the west did join the war against Hitler and he was defeated. Notably, tribunals for war crimes (which would culminate in the creation of a court in The Hague) were undertaken at the insistence of the Soviet Union, after the western powers tried to kill the idea in 1942.

(Among the many receipts for this claim, I can point to the 1937 visit of the Canadian Prime Minister to Berlin, which was strategized alongside the British govt, and was designed to convey to Hitler that as long as he limited his ambition to Eastern Europe, he would have a free hand.)

The Anglo-American powers joined the war eventually, but only opened up serious offensives against the Nazis after the Soviets had pushed them back and were marching towards Berlin. Western leadership had been very warm with Hitler through the mid 1930s and tried hard to forge an alliance.

First, most obvious point: the Nazis were not voted out of office nor were they stopped by civil disobedience or protest. They were only ousted by military opposition, and the most significant factor by a mile was the Soviet Union, which lost more than 30 million people in the war against the Nazis.

And of course I understand and agree with the sentiment that this is a crystal clear reflection of Nazi ideology. But I worry that we don't really understand how the Nazis were defeated and how there came to be a "The Hague" and what really happened (or didn't happen) there.

This is a guy who has Nazi-affiliated tattoos on his body and whom the US military itself (!) flagged as a potential 'insider threat' for his far-right politics. A guy who has draped himself in the idea of a Christian crusade against Islam. I'm seeing a lot of "this will be evidence at The Hague..."

"What happens to Iran's nuclear weapons" is that they'll continue to not exist. For anyone who doesn't know, his father the Shah was one of the most hated despots of the 20th century. He was installed to rule Iran by the CIA after they (CIA) overthrew the government elected by Iranians in the 1950s.

Yeah I remember in 2003 watching the Cherry-McLean debate on HNIC and thinking I was glad Canada stayed out of it. Years later I discovered it was bullshit: Canadian troops were totally involved in the invasion and then Canada officially joined the "reconstruction" which started in April 2003!

Does Cuba supply Russia with drones used to attack Ukraine? Because the Ukrainian government supports the starving of Cubans too.

In case you're wondering what Canada is saying, it's saying that the principle threat to peace is the country that just got preemptively bombed bsky.app/profile/nkal...

Ukraine also supported the US kidnapping of Venezuela's president and the starving of Cubans bsky.app/profile/hist...

Israel and the United States is bombing elementary schools in Iran and, by the way, the heroic Ukrainian resistance supports that

Ukrainian Support for War Effort Collapses New data from Ukraine show the public favors ending the war with Russia through negotiations, as support for fighting until victory has plummeted.

As I just said to someone else, the majority of Ukrainians who actually live in Ukraine are exhausted from the war and want a negotiated settlement. I don't think Canada should be pumping billions of dollars into a war that Ukrainians don't want. news.gallup.com/poll/693203/...

Ukrainian Support for War Effort Collapses New data from Ukraine show the public favors ending the war with Russia through negotiations, as support for fighting until victory has plummeted.

There are many reasons for the drop in Ukrainian support for the war, but obviously it's easier for people on the sidelines to insist on victory at all cost, when they aren't trying to actually live in the war zone. Casualties are high and people want relief. news.gallup.com/poll/693203/...

It is a stalemate in the sense that the lines have not shifted significantly since the early stages of the war. Opinion polls show the majority of Ukrainians want a peace agreement (nearly 70% according to Gallop). Nevertheless, right wing forces in both countries are resistant to a settlement.

Trump does it more explicitly, but this is the same death-cult logic as we are witnessing south of the border. Billions of dollars into a stalemate war where both sides are fully captured by far-right forces, but no money for libraries and hospitals and schools and culture.

Man someone's gotta do something about cheese packaging, I shouldn't be this banged up from trying to access a block of marble cheddar

Truly a society humiliating itself, completely enslaved to a logic of capital (which it doesn't even fully understand because it is too terrified of its critics to actually read and understand them). Language models will (obviously) write garbage and (less obviously I guess) not support profits.

Liberals are so hard-wired to follow the rules that Trump says anything and they just do it, "stop measuring presidential approval" "ok" like they are constitutionally incapable of saying "nah fuck you man" no wonder they hate protestors so much

Since it would be simple to plan around this, and since Canadian airlines already have been doing this for years, the question is why are they cancelling these lucrative flights now? It is adverse to their material interests. The only explanation that makes sense is that they have been directed.

The only thing that is a stretch is the notion that Canadian airlines are somehow unable to plan their routes to refuel at other stops besides Cuba. Every other airline is able to do this. Do you think that planes refuel every time they land? Planes often make several flights between refuelling.

Cancelling flights is far worse business, and Canadian airlines carry enough fuel that they don't need to refuel in Cuba anyway. Airlines from other countries have found workarounds, not out of charity, just bc it's still business. Cdn airlines wouldn't cut themselves out unless they were directed.

Speaking of acquiescence, Canadian airlines are now cancelling all flights to Cuba, obviously at the direction of the Carney govt. Other airlines are making fuel arrangements, but Canada is going the extra mile in helping Trump starve Cuban people and destroy their revolution.

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