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... וְעַל כָּל מָאן דְּעָסְ֒קִין בְּאוֹרַיְתָא. דִּי בְאַתְרָא הָדֵין וְדִי בְכָל אֲתַר וַאֲתַר...
.... and upon all who are active with orita in this place and every place.... also science, bikes, poetry, limudei yehadut, talmud, zohar, granola
I don't know but I believe that a US invasion is more likely than not. In Trump's vision, Russia gets Ukraine by right, China gets Taiwan by right, and the US gets Canada and Greenland. It's what he wants, and the supine GOP has no objection. The Canadian war has already begun.
March 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
10. Many Canadian police forces fold and acknowledge US occupation.
11. Quebec continues to mount insurgency for years to come.
12. Notwithstanding promise of statehood, the US maintains Canada in a status of territory to avoid upsetting balance of power in House.
March 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
8. Canada declares war - the US does not, thereby avoiding need to go to Congress for declaration of war.
9. US forces soon defeat 60,000 soldier Candian defense forces in a series of short sharp military actions.
10. US forces soon occupy major Canadian cities.
(continued)
March 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
5. US deploys Special Operations forces over border
6. US mounts two incursions dividing Canada into three regions, West, Central, and East.
7. Canadian insurgents (citizens with guns) respond, giving the US causas belli for increased pace of military operations
(continued)
March 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Only Israel had the foresight to understand that the US might not be a trustworthy ally in the future. But they've had experience with that in the past. The Europeans chose to believe that the US alliance was forever. That was a mistake.
March 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM
... that corruption's gangrene has spread too far to be healed by our scepter, that the triumph over enemy sovereigns has made us the heirs of their long undoing.

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

(Apply to your situation as needed.)
February 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
... offering in exchange annual tributes of precious metals, tanned hides, and tortoise shell. It is the desperate moment when we discover that this empire, which had seemed to us the sum of all wonders, is an endless, formless ruin,...
February 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
... where they are portrayed, and rolls up, one after the other, the dispatches announcing to us the collapse of the last enemy troops, from defeat to defeat, and flakes the wax of the seals of obscure kings who beseech our armies' protection,....
February 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
There is a sense of emptiness that comes over us at evening, with the odor of the elephants after the rain and the sandalwood growing cold in the braziers, a dizziness that makes rivers and mountains tremble on the fallow curves of the planispheres...
February 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM