Canada Ping!
Thank God Stephen Harper is in this world.
How did we Elect Obama while Canada elected this man?
It’s time, folks, to put your cold war hats back on, because that’s what we’re in. The Soviet structures in Russia were never dismantled, their crimes never punished, and their enablers in the West never exposed and expelled. And this is the price we pay for that.
Harper is a good Prime Minister and a leader. Canada should be proud.
BTTT
Which is a greater threat to the world? An American president who is in cahoots with everyone who wants to destroy America? Muslims? Or Putin.
Why doesn’t Russia attack the border areas of China?
Canada Ping!
Russia and Canada have had a running issue about rights to Arctic Oil and Gas for about 3 years now.
And just Yesterday:
Russia Ships The World’s First Load of Offshore Arctic Oil
NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia, April 18 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin hailed Russia’s first shipment of Arctic offshore oil on Friday, saying the platform decried by environmentalists will help Moscow expand its global energy markets share.
Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russia’s top gas producer Gazprom, shipped the first 70,000 tonnes of oil by tanker from the Prirazlomnoye platform, the site of a protest by 30 Greenpeace activists who were arrested last year.
The launch of oil production in the Arctic, seen by Russia as one of the key sources in the gradual replacement of output from its depleted West Siberian fields, has long been delayed due to cost overruns and technical difficulties.
“This, in essence, is the beginning of great and large-scale extraction of minerals and oil by our country in the Arctic,” Putin said, speaking from his residence outside Moscow via a video link with workers at the platform, including Gazprom’s head Alexei Miller.
“The whole project will positively influence Russia’s future presence on the global energy markets and will strengthen both the whole economy and the energy sector,” said Putin, who personally oversees all the major energy projects in country.
Our government is a grave threat to the American people, tell you what, give me back my Republic and I`ll give a sh!t about the world.
I like Harper. I would take him for US prez over many if not most of our current contenders. I even joke with my Canuk nephew that the US will simply “take” Harper as our prez. He said that would not be right or possible but I ask him exactly how it is his country would stop us if we really wanted to “take” his PM.
Which is my point here. Every small country that under-spends on defense while relying on the US to ride to its rescue, should the SHTF, is now clamoring for the US to stand up to Putin. Harper is sadly in that category.
Ukraine has had a decade to get ready for this day. They did not prepare for it and even to this day do not seem willing to sacrifice their own blood or treasure in their own self-defense. They seem to think defense can be outsourced.
Canada had better bulk up its defenses and even consider acquiring a few nukes. If not the kiss the Arctic resources goodbye. The US will not help. But is better to have Obama in charge of Arctic resources or a “drill here drill now even if I have to steal it” Putin?
For over 70 years we’ve been told that fears of Soviet Communism were overblown. That US imperialism was the threat in the world, that Communist Imperialism was just nations (like Cuba, China, Russia) helping other countries (like Vietnam).
One of few western leaders still making some sense, too bad Canada is not a major power.
OTTAWA – Russian actions against Ukraine are “aggressive, militaristic and imperialistic” and pose a grave threat to world peace, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said today. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Harper has reason to be a might touchy. Russia maintains two brigades of Russian Army troops in Russias far North
totalling 20,000 men.
If one reads the current poofter liberal based Security Assessment of Canada about the Russian Northern threat to Canada , its laughable given the current military expansionsim of Putin:
http://www.casr.ca/as-arctic-russian-risk-assessment.htm
The Russians are just a few short hours away from invading Canada via an open Northern Gateway, and there is not one thing Canada or anyone would be able to do to stop them.
Putin also has Harper by the short hairs, which is why he is squealing so much. Soon Harper will have to choose to continue Socailized medicine in Canada or to ramp up Canada’s military. Haroper does NOT want to have to make such a decision.Harper will continue to squeal.