cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/2029861
Canada will send $5 billion in aid to Ukraine using funds from seized Russian assets, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday at a peace and security summit in Kyiv.
Trudeau made the pledge as he and a dozen other world leaders are in the Ukrainian capital to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, where support for Ukraine to end the war on its terms and with its territory intact remained strong.
“This is not a conflict Ukraine wanted, provoked or asked for in any way,” Trudeau said at the summit table.
“This is a war started for one reason and one reason only: Russia’s desire to erase Ukrainian history and expand their empire.”
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“We cannot return to an era where might makes right,” Trudeau said. “We must do everything in our power to enable Ukraine to secure a just and lasting peace, a peace that cannot be achieved without Ukrainians at the table.”
Trudeau has been knocking it out of the park ever since he announced his resignation
The Fuck Trudeau crowd is in shambles
…from whence they originated.
Nah, they’re opinions were never based on fact. It was always them falling for the propaganda.
Didn’t you know that everyone who’s bad is now Trudeau? Carney? Nah that’s Trudeau in a mask! Freeland? Trudeau in a mask AND a dress.
I send them my regards.
Now that Trudeau is out of the picture - who are they going to fuck now?
Us! At the voting station, when they vote for Ford
I vote for themselves.
Themselves maybe?
It’s crazy, once he stopped playing politics he became a pretty decent politician!
No longer has to worry about re-election, so he can now make the proper call on issues
He’s really good in these situations. He also knocked it out of the park during Covid.
True, but polls show he also became more popular once he stopped making blatantly political moves (Carbon Tax exception for Heating Oil, etc) and started making “the proper call on issues”. It might just be a rally-around-the-flag effect with US tariffs & 51st state stuff, but I think it’s quite the coincidence!
It’s not the polls he’d worry about, it’s the billionaires funding his opponents. Now that he’s retiring, he doesn’t have to deal with campaign fundraising
Yes now that he plans to quit he finally wants to make his father proud. He wasnt so bad at the start, but then he just regressed into nothing then into eh then into just shut up.
Its such a shame he got overwhelmed with high expectations so quickly and just turned into yeah hes th PM, yeah hes okay but whatever. He couldve been and done much more.
Not the most familiar with Canadian politics, but isn’t that because he got thrown a lot of Trump-shaped low-hanging fruits?
lol
How many frozen asset funds are remaining?
A lot, nobody has wanted to touch them out of fear that it would erode trust in financial institutions of the countries in question. EU has used its interest as collateral for loans to support Ukraine.
I hope every penny gets used to throw the murderers out of Ukraine.
As an addition: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the UK also announced new sanctions against Russia at the start of this week.
How much more can we realistically sanction?
Until Ukraine takes over Russia and makes it a democracy.
I think the poster you replied for meant what is there practically left to sanction?
Kind of amazed Oz isn’t towing more of the Trump line.
Ukrainian troops firing at Russians with weapons purchased with money from seized Russian assets.
That’s poetry right there.
A lot of mouth breathing Canadians are going to be mad at Trudeau again!
Ty Canada.
Trumpty Dumpty is trying to serve them up on a silver platter.
Bravo! This is why Canada is loved by other nations.
It’s also a HUGE “fuck you” to Trump and Putin.
Slava Ukraini!
can’t shoot with money
You can’t buy bullets/cartridges, and guns with money? Weird. /s
Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts.
Funding Ukrainian Nazis.
Instructions for you:
You can try the shape the narrative however you’d like but the world knows that Russia is not the good guy in this story.
Are these nazis in the room with us right now?
Oh, there you are!
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Like every BS conspiracy theory, there is a kernel of truth, but it’s exaggerated to a comical extreme. Yes, like pretty much every country, there are some Nazis in Ukraine. The focus from pro-Russian propagandists has often been on the Azov Brigade which IMHO does seems pretty neo-Nazi. However, I also give Ukraine as a whole a bit of a pass because wartime isn’t a great time to de-Nazify and restructure your armed forces.
Especially considering when Russia has been funding neo-nazis all over Europe and Putin has posed as best buddies with a whole bunch of them. Russia loves nazis.
