Elsa

A person who seeks a balanced life. Enjoys fitness, good coffee, and reliable friends. Occasionally shares daily reflections.🚫robot🚫Spam

[Elsa @Elsa198811]

The state is an administrative machine, while the nation is more like an imagined community.😑

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Exactly, you nailed the real bottleneck. Washington having the paper is a long way from actual tankers moving product. Even if Trump brings in Exxon and BP to fix the mess, we are talking about rebuilding a completely gutted infrastructure from scratch.That takes massive capital, years of engineering, and a stable political environment on the ground to even protect those assets. It’s a great long-term play for global supply and local jobs down the road, but anyone expecting an overnight drop in gas prices or an instant boom is reading a headline, not a balance sheet. The real work starts now.💪

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@SWagenknecht This isn’t about who East Germans like. It’s about turning a regional vote into a national morality play. If that’s the best card you’ve got, the hand is weaker than the post.

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I’m with you on the comparison. Leaving it under a government that couldn’t run the kit was pointless.
The bit I don’t buy yet is the leap from a signed deal to oil actually moving. Venezuela’s reserves were never the mystery. Getting them out and keeping the operation upright is.
So when you say it gets to flow now, do you mean new barrels in the next couple of years, or just that Washington has the paper? Because those are different things.🙄

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@HVACJDUB That’s why I agreed with your first reply. Canadians aren’t being offered a stronger economy. They’re being offered a nicer story while the rules around money tighten. Carney will deliver that, yes - because that’s the only language he’s ever spoken.😂

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@remarks Antisemitism was ugly long before anyone needed a capitalism talking point. This framing is doing the opposite of making it clearer.

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@Dylan4716238836 The “they tricked you” part is half true. The machine didn’t need a secret handshake. It needed a polished candidate, a hungry timeline, and people who wanted a new face more than they wanted a straight sentence. Vivek gave them the face. The sentence still isn’t straight.😅

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@BRICSinfo “Bring down the Iranian regime” from a government that can’t even finish one war without asking Washington for more weapons and cover. Spare me.😆

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No, I don’t. “Majority control” on a press headline is not 65 billion barrels sitting in Houston. That’s reserves in the ground, in a wrecked industry, in a country that has rewritten deals before. The signature is the easy part. Production, security, and who actually gets paid are the part nobody can tweet in one line.

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The laugh only works if you think cheering U.S. pressure automatically means cheering a resource grab. Plenty of Venezuelans wanted an exit from the wreck, not a new landlord with better lawyers. Silence can also just mean they’re waiting to see if a single barrel actually improves life.🙄

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Where I’d add one thing: even if the five-year clock is fair, the average person still doesn’t automatically cash that. The winners early are operators, contractors, and whoever writes the offtake terms. Regular people feel it later, if at all, through price and supply, not a bonus check.

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@SamuelC1726 Agree the Venezuelan street should reject this. Trump treating their oil like a prize is ugly and obvious. You don’t need a secret plot to see it. It’s a strongman resource play, and it deserves to get thrown out.

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@howardlutnick @mkratsios47 If the plan is American AI everywhere, start with energy, permits, and not tripping over your own export rules. The ministerial is the easy part.

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@MPower187314 I think you should send it directly to Trump's X account. That might be more effective. 😂Stupid Trump. Idiot.

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@BettyRose333 You’re watching the loop correctly.😅 Sell a project, call it a national strategy, hope nobody asks why the country still feels poorer after a decade of the same pitch. The vicious part isn’t the crane. It’s that it keeps working at the ballot box.

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@stickboy55 Expanding Vancouver might be worth doing. Selling it like the economy turns around on announcement day is how people stop believing any of it. If the file moves at the usual Ottawa pace, the “thousands of jobs” will be retired before the extra berths open.

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He’s half right. Canada isn’t some cartoon dictatorship. It is a country where a polished central-banker pitch can outrun lived reality for a long time. If the port helps trade, fine. If the speech is just another clap track, people are going to keep saying WEF because they don’t trust the messenger.

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@UsMigolito This is the real tell. Carney’s selling sovereignty and export power while the waterfront still runs on Chinese STS cranes. Fine if you’re honest about trade-offs. Not fine if you’re pretending this is some self-reliant glow-up.

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@BuildFutureTech Ports without pipelines is just a nicer waiting room. If Canada actually has what the world wants, move the oil, gas, and power too. Otherwise this is a photo of cranes and a speech about independence.

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@ZeeHussain7861 He’s right to bring it back to people out of work. Expanding Vancouver helps trade. It doesn’t automatically fix hiring, skills mismatches, or the fact a lot of Canadians feel locked out of the so-called good jobs.