All the more reason to buy Ukrainian designed & manufactured long range missiles and drones (and license their manufacturing in Canada) to help the defense industry sectors in both UKR and CA!

DJT might have also concluded "Be thankful for my ignorance in this matter." What a time to be alive!

Wie man einen Terrazzoboden gießt: youtu.be/0FUrK4wMqHo Wohl viel mehr Arbeit ohne moderne Werkzeugen!

I've never used Signal, so I'm not familiar with how people use it and can slip-up using it. In any case, the real issue is that it was employed in the particular context of military and strategic security.

But my hypothetical doesn't pass the Occam's razor-like principle of not ascribing intentionality to what can be adequately explained by incompetence!

Since Signal-gate takes away the focus from multiple other issues with the Administration, I am tempted by the hypothesis that the addition of the journalist to the chat group was a deliberate initiative rather than a mistake (and counted on the steadily increasing impunity of this Administration).

What chilled me when I watched that part of today's executive order/policy pony show was his utter lack of any feeling or empathy for the victims of the increased violence he recognized was a consequence of withdrawal of intelligence information. A truly vile leader!

Another of the grim aspects of Trump's calculation (if indeed such ability can be ascribed to him), is that withdrawal of intelligence from Ukraine will increase the number of wounded and killed civilians, precisely counter to his avowed aim of "stopping the killing".

But he *did* give a bald assessment of the situation! No one should put a wig on the truth.

When you are a citizen of the top predator empire, your attention is always on other top empires, not middling states, even if right next door!

And an additional advantage of pursuing an EEA type agreement compared to CETA is that with a strong joint Federal/Provincial negotiation team driving the process, it might accelerate the the weakening of interprovincial trade barriers, which will be necessary anyway for any EEA membership.

The DW video seems to be complete www.youtube.com/live/IxkBYZH... while I had trouble with some others which started mid-bust-up.

Honestly, are not all these crazy appointments (not all of which will succeed) tactics to divert public & media attention from 2nd-echelon appointments that will form the operative bastion of the MAGA establishment in Washington?