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Russia says no contact yet with Trump’s team

A phone call between the Russian and US leaders hasn’t been planned yet, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov

https://www.rt.com/news/611727-russia-us-talks-ukraine-conflict/

“Trump won’t be calling Putin until AFTER he annexes Canada and Greenland so he can wag his new penile extension in front of Vladimir.

UPDATE: Trump will NEVER be phoning Putin”.

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Good Monday morning beloved sentients. Another brilliant just above freezing day on the Malahat. The Birthday Party I gave last evening for three family January birthdays went fantastically. The highlight of the feast was the steak, it cost $65 for three medium steaks but they were DE-LICIOUS!

Now I’m going to go into another deep dive into the turgid swamp of the Trump Presidency so far. It’s my patriotic duty to “Stand on Guard” for Canada and I will do so until the fucker has formally apologized to Canada for the biggest mistake of his career–underestimating Canadians!

The Trump presidency is only a week old but, so far, the self-crowned Emperor of the World Trump has committed several huge BLUNDERS and is batting Zero.

1. Canada won’t be sucked into the bankrupt USA/Zionist vortex. After 158 years, and fighting in two World Wars…we suddenly learned from the self-crowned Emperor that “Canada is not sovereign”.

2. Denmark won’t “sell” Greenland to the USA just because as Trump said: “we need it for security” and Panama won’t give the US the canal and has formally complained about US threats to the UN.

3. Mexico will not accept unauthorized planeloads of migrants.

While the President of Colombia has backtracked on his original courageous stand, he could still levy a 50% tariff on all American goods. Three strikes and you’re OUT–is the rule in Baseball, the national sport of the US, right?

Greencrow continues: In his first week in office, Trump has proved himself to be a huge braggart/exaggerator of facts–who has made horrific and repeated threats of war against multiple former allies:

Like most bullies Trump will likely back down when confronted with strength. He lied humongously when he said that Canada was running a $250 billion dollar a year trade deficit with the US, The truth is the deficit is $40 billion which is chunk change for Trump–but more about that later.

Most significantly, Trump promised during his campaign that he would end the Ukraine war within 24 hours after assuming office. Well……Russia’s Putin is waiting by the phone but so far no phone call yet from Trump. Here’s the report from RT:

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“Russia says no contact yet with Trump’s team A phone call between the Russian and US leaders hasn’t been planned yet, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov…”

https://rt.com/news/611727-russia-us-talks-ukraine-conflict/…

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Greencrow continues: LOL…Trump can’t call Putin yet…his penis isn’t big enough. He has to annex Canada and Greenland first–so he has something to wag.

Here’is the coup de grace from Canada…an article just published in the National Post which lays out the Canada/US Trade situation like a neat waiter:

Please read:

John Ivison: Canada has powerful anti-tariff weapons that Trump isn’t mentioning

The more that President Donald Trump feigns disinterest in all things Canadian, the more you have to think he really, really wants what Canada has.

“We don’t need them to make our cars. We don’t need their lumber…we don’t need their oil and gas,” he  told the World Economic Forum in Davos  last week.

America’s “bad management” over the past four years has allowed trade to become imbalanced, to the point where the U.S. is “paying US$200 billion a year to keep Canada going”, Trump said. (The U.S.  Bureau for Economic Analysis  pegs the goods and services trade deficit at US$40.6 billion, as a result of the Americans importing large quantities of discounted Canadian heavy crude.)

Nobody seems to know where the US$200 billion figure [Ed, NOTE: I saw the quote from Trump and it was $250 billion] comes from, but it has been used as a pretext for the 25-per-cent tariffs on Canada’s exports to the U.S. that Trump has said will come down this weekend.

As we saw with his threats to impose tariffs of up to 50 per cent on Colombia,  after its president refused to allow deportation flights to land , Trump is keen to start off his presidency by hammering one of America’s allies, pour encourager les autres.

It looks like Canada and Mexico are next, even if his northern neighbour is important to America’s prosperity and security in ways he would never acknowledge.

The American Petroleum Institute’s CEO Mike Sommer told  Politico’s E&E News  last week, that tariffs on Canadian oil would hit gas prices in America.

“We import a lot of oil from both Mexico and Canada, and we refine it here in the most sophisticated refinery system in the world,” he said. “We’re going to continue to work with the Trump administration on this so that they understand how important it is that we continue these trade relationships.”

Beyond oil and gas, the U.S. has identified an inventory of critical infrastructure and key resources in Canada whose loss would impact the economic and physical security of the U.S.

An anonymous whistleblower who has previously sent me information from the trove of controversial, classified documents released by WikiLeaks sent on one such summary from 2009, which, while out of date in some areas, reveals the inter-reliance of the U.S. and Canadian economies.

The classified U.S. government document lists dozens of power projects, oil and gas pipelines, defence companies, bridges, rail crossings, mines and pharma manufacturers that the U.S. depends upon.

For example, it cites Hydro-Québec as being “a critical and irreplaceable source of power to north-east U.S.”

The Chalk River Nuclear Facility is cited as the largest supplier of medical radioisotopes in the world. (Chalk River was taken out of service in 2018 but Canada remains the leader in the development of medical isotopes used in radiation treatment, with McMaster University’s nuclear reactor at the forefront).

The document identified the E-One Moli Energy plant in B.C., which makes rechargeable lithium-ion cells, and General Dynamics Land Systems in London, which “is critical to the production of the Stryker” light armoured vehicle used by the American military.

It mentioned Raytheon ELCON Optical Technologies of Ontario and Thales Optronique of Montreal, which make critical optical systems for the U.S. military, as well as pharmaceutical companies GSK Canada and Sanofi Canada, which make vaccines for influenza and polio respectively. Other Canadian companies in AI and quantum computing have no doubt been added to an updated list.

Most pertinent in this case is the mention of critical minerals, at a time when the demand for rare earth elements was a fraction of what it is now.

A look at the U.S. Geological Survey’s  Mineral Commodity summary 2024  suggests why Trump is so determined to beggar America’s neighbours until they have no choice but to petition to become the 51st state.

The survey says that America is reliant on foreign sources for more than half of the consumption of 50 listed non-fuel minerals needed in just about every part of its industrial processes. It is a 100-per-cent net importer of 12 of those critical minerals and a 50-per-cent net importer of another 29.

China (with 24 minerals) and Canada (with 23) were the most prolific sources. In Canada’s case, that included cobalt used in batteries; germanium used in defence and fibre optics; indium used in liquid crystal displays; magnesium used in metallurgy; nickel, which is also used in batteries; tellurium used in solar cells; vanadium, again in batteries; and zinc, used in metallurgy.

China has  implemented export bans  and reductions on certain of these materials. Beijing controls 60 per cent of rare earth elements and prices have tanked because of oversupply, which has resulted in North American companies struggling to attract capital.

A partial solution has seen the U.S. partnering with Canada to address the unfair competition and deliberate over-production by investing directly in mines.

In December, the U.S. Department of Defense  committed to a US$15-million feasibility study  in a tungsten mine in eastern Yukon. The Canadian government has agreed to upgrade roads and transmission lines to make the project more viable.

This is the sixth such financing, at a time when concerns are growing about the stockpiling of minerals used in aerospace components, munitions and vehicle armour.

The ventures fall under the Defense Production Act, and Canada is considered a domestic source of resources.

It is an absolute abuse of that trusted partnership and a misrepresentation of Canada’s history as a good ally to turn around and say, as Trump has done, that Canada is “very unfair to us.”

It’s true Canada cannot win a protracted trade war with the Americans. But we are not the Maldives, or even Colombia.

If Trump picks a fight with us this weekend, it is not just nationalistic bravado that says he will soon regret it.

National Post jivison@criffel.ca

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Greencrow concludes: Folks I’ve gone up and down on a roller coaster of emotions ever since Trump flung that huge piece of shit at my country–when he told the domestically despised Trudeau over dinner in Mar-a=Lago that he was going to make Canada the US’s 51st State. I literally have never been so insulted in my life.

MAIDS seems like a very good alternative to the humiliation of living out my few remaining years in the hind rump of a Ziofascist, genocidal warmongering bankrupt predator.

But, today, along with the sunshine outside, my mood is more positive. The John Ivison editorial above certainly puts things in a more positive perspective. The most important aspect is psychological. At least the National Post and John Ivison know the stakes and appear ready and willing to fight off the penile extension predator. Stay tunied