Theo Moudakis captures Canadian pride and resoluteness here.
As if to drive home the fact that we are not Amerika's vassal, Carney has made this decision:
Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the G7 summit, which will be held in June in Kananaskis, in a sign of solidarity as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its fourth year.
The invitation was extended on Sunday when Carney spoke to Zelenskyy by phone, days after Carney was sworn in as prime minister .
It isn’t uncommon for non-member countries to be invited. The summit usually has 16 tables, and in 2023, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia and South Korea attended talks in Japan.
The gesture to invite Ukraine comes as the country has agreed to a 30-day ceasefire in exchange for the lifting of U.S. military aid restrictions following a fiery meeting between Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump.
At a time when countries seem increasingly timid for fear of offending Don Trump, it is refreshing and invigorating to see our Prime Minister setting his own course.
Now that Trump's a convicted felon, he needs ministerial permission to enter Canada. We'll know Carney's serious when Trump isn't invited.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, Sumi. i wonder if he will have the intestinal fortitude to act when the G7 convenes here this summer.
DeletePrime Minister Mark Carney has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the G7 summit,
ReplyDeleteI have long held that Justin Trudeau was an idiot in international affairs. I had hoped that Mark Carney would be better. Apparently not.
Why, in heaven's name, do we want that corrupt little tit-pot dictator in Canada? Oh well,maybe we'll get lucky and he'll be overthrown by then.
I suspect it is the optics of it, Anon. By treating Zelenskyy with respect instead of odium, a sharp contrast is offered to the U.S. and a symbolic gesture of defiance and independence is offered, diplomatically, of course, to our current foe to the south.
DeleteI see your point, and even appreciate the spirit of Carney's gesture but Zelenskyy is not worthy of respect. He and his cabal, ably supported by NATO, have essentially destroyed Ukraine.
DeleteAccording to Wiki, Ukraine had a population of ~33.5 million in 2014. I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations back in the summer of 2023 and concluded that the Kievian-controlled areas of Ukraine probably had a population of about 18-22 million. Since then, a couple of people with better information sources have said roughly the same thing. I assume it's worse now.
So far Ukraine has taken massive military casualties, immense physical destruction, has 8 million refugees in the West and, at a guess, 3–5 million in Russia. BTW, in the Trump–Putin telephone call yesterday,Putin agreed not to attack energy installations for a month. This was easy: There is nothing left to attack.
At the same time elements of the Kiev regime seem willing to steal anything portable. It looks like someone has been flogging Javelin, anti-tank missiles as we are seeing pictures of them in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
And we are inviting this man to be a guest of Canada? Come to think of it, the last time he was here, the House of Commons managed to give a standing ovation to a real, live, WWII Nazi, Yaroslav Hunka, a former member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division. The Nuremberg Trials ruled that membership in the Waffen SS was, prima facie, proof that a person was a Nazi.
Well, the Group of Seven meeting may be interesting.
Points well-taken, Anon. that corruption exists in Ukraine is something a friend of mine was telling me about the other day, information he got from a relatively new Ukrainian arrival. Again, so much of politics and posturing is on the symbolic level, and whether justified or not , Zelensky is the face of brave resistance to the Russian encroachments. And one can't forget his famous declaration when offered rescue from danger, when he said the fight was there, and he needed ammunition, not a ride. Whether true or not, it makes for a great line and emblem for Ukrainian resolve.
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