There was a published exchange between former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and former US President Bill Clinton from the 1990s, in which Chrétien made a strong arguments for Canada’s nominal sovereignty in terms of how it benefits the US position. For example, Canada can take the side of the US in international relations; a state or even multiple states cannot do that. The subordination of Canadian intelligence (CISA) to the US via Five and more Eyes is another example: the US can use CISA to provide legal cover for surveilling US citizens.

I can’t wait for Huawei and ZTE hardware to be made legal in the west again. Can’t hide behind “the Chinese have backdoors in that hardware” projection when the Chinese have taken advantage of the US’ backdoors.

I feel like I am missing context here. I don’t understand why clicking a phishing link leads to getting beaten by cops and charged with a made up offense.

The people of Berlin voted to take the apartments held by Deutsche Wohnen into public ownership, another property hoarding company. The language of the referendum made it essentially binding, yet the Berlin senate refuses to move forward. A second referendum was even passed with a practical law proposal and still nothing.

As long as the violence rolls down the class pyramid it’s “peaceful.”

My personal take: a coporation doesn’t have a phyical body and thus has absolutely no need for a home. And a human has one body so a human needs just one home.

You’re free to choose which of three shitty corporate house hoarders you rent from.

If he had opened Russian markets to exploitation by Wall Street they wouldn’t have cared.

Western libs still look back fondly on the Yeltsin years…

He wrote some academic sounding russophobic and anti-communist drivel so now he gets placed on the NYT bestseller list and has a running gig on cable news.

Academia provides cover for the ruling class, he’s but one example.

Unfortunately in my lib years I bought his book On Tyranny and later gifted it to my grandfather, who has been quite a fan ever since. Every time he brings it up now I cringe.