John Drazic

East coast of the west coast, living in paradise and rarely sharing my distorted views on energy and politics.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

What’s going on in Iran, how did we get here, and why you should pay attention.
In collaboration with @TheFP

[Canada Proud @WeAreCanProud]

CBC thinks they know about Greenland than their leader of the opposition. 😂

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This is brilliant.
♥️ 🎶🎻

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

All right, we are all thinking it , but I'll come out and say it...

We all KNEW something like this was bound to happen and have been sounding the alarm about it for months.

We knew that an entire Left-wing ecosystem of media and politicians making illegal actions against ICE seem "heroic and righteous" was bound to get someone killed.

That's why for months, many of us were calling out the insanity of the actions of some of these "protestors" who were just actually doing ILLEGAL things.

Then we watched as leftist judge after leftist judge let each of these criminal lawbreakers loose without any consequences at all.

Then the media wrote glowing op-eds on how these criminal lawbreakers were heroes of the resistance and should be praised.

You get what you incentivize...

...and the Left incentivized harassment, vandalism, and yes VIOLENCE against ICE / Border Patrol agents

So we got more of it...

And it's awful to watch, I'm sick to my stomach.

These are people who have no idea what the hell they are doing, they are just out there with an upside-down sense of morality where they believe they are doing the righteous thing by constantly harassing and assaulting federal agents.

You don’t get to light the match, walk away, and act shocked and outraged when the building burns down.

This is what you normalized.
This is what you celebrated.

...and this is what that leads to

It's awful and evil, and it HAS to end here.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Mark Carney’s and Canada’s Dangerous Refusal to Face Reality.

Mark Carney and most Canadians are behaving as if Canada is an independent pole in a multipolar order, when the world he actually inhabits is a hierarchy being brutally clarified by Washington. Trump’s revamped National Security Strategy and the “Trump Corollary” — asserted through the seizure of Nicolás Maduro and open threats toward Cuba and Colombia, make plain that the United States now treats the Western Hemisphere as an American security estate, not a debating society among equals.

In that framework, Canada is not a co‑author of the rules. It is a dependency inside the U.S. sphere, structurally lashed to American markets, finance and supply chains. AND after decades without a serious sovereign industrial or energy strategy, Canada is at best a weak Middle Power, that has for decades squandered its competitive advantage through proformative politics and virtue signalling.

In this era, the Western Hemisphere is now a “secure production platform” for American industry and technology, defined not by territorial control but by ownership, access and compliance. The Trump doctrine logic is clear and blunt yet internally coherent: if the Western Hemispheres natural resources and supply chains are secured, the economic and geopolitical dividends will follow.

Carney’s answer to the Trump Doctrine, however, remains the same “City‑of‑London” orthodoxy that produced him: more proformative political grandstanding, more process, more declarations, more meetings, and more boondoggles.

The Greenland consulate, rhetorical red lines over annexation, the flying around the world, and ritual protests against U.S. action in Venezuela all presume that we still live in the post WWII rules based order. We do not! Will live in the era of the Trump Doctrine, and no we can’t wait it out. And in this era, Greenland will not be allowed to be under the influence of Russia or China.

Thucydides warned that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Carney’s tragedy is that he quotes the rules‑based order while presiding over a country whose economic structure is colonial and whose security ultimately depends on the very power he is theatrically chastising. Posturing without power is not prudence. It is provocation without a plan. And yes it’s dangerous.

The irony is that Carney understands all of this perfectly well, which only sharpens the question: what, exactly, is he doing by posturing as a rules‑based equal in a hierarchy where he knows Canada lacks the hard power to back his stance?

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Where is the left now?
Where are the “pro-Palestinian” and “anti war” activists when the Islamic Republic is killing innocent Iranians?
At least 20 people got killed in 10 days protests including 4 children….
Same story, my friends, the same story I once told @billmaher.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

Should Saskatchewan “value add” its wheat and try to make every bread and pasta item people in Ontario might conceive of eating ? Or will that much larger Ontario market want to use the flour locally in ways that Saskatchewan couldn’t anticipate or compete with?

BC cannot economically refine and transport the dozens of products to come from a heavy oil barrel for multiple
Chinese markets and manufacturers. But we can make great money shipping crude oil.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

“Hands Off Venezuela” protests are being paid for and organized by The People’s Forum—the same group behind pro-Palestine campus protests.

The group is funded almost entirely by billionaire-turned-Marxist Neville Roy Singham, who has documented sympathies and ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

@FrannieBlock has investigated his funding network for The Free Press.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The paradox of free immigration:

“Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is a bad thing today?”

Free immigration is not like it was in 1914 anymore. The welfare state made it different.

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Maduro was a corrupt dictator who abused the Venezuelan people.

His fall is a win for humanity.

Importantly for Americans - he worked with China and Russia to undermine us, in our own backyard.

Trump did the right thing.

China and Russia are playing to win.

We should too.

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

JUST IN: @MarcoRubio announces that NGOs are being *CUT OFF* and all foreign aid will now go straight to national governments.

"That is the model that we're breaking. We're not doing this anymore. We are not going to spend billions of dollars funding the NGO Industrial Complex."

It's over. These NGOs are being *CUT OFF.*

Do you approve?

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Congratulations to President Trump on successfully arresting narco-terrorist and socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro, who should live out his days in prison.

The legitimate winner of the most recent Venezuelan elections, Edmundo González, should take office along with the courageous hero and voice of the Venezuelan people, María Corina Machado.

Down with socialism. Long live freedom.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

The same people mourning the arrest of Maduro, celebrated the kidnapping of 9 month old baby Kfir Bibas.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

@MarkJCarney Let me translate: Canada believes in a feminist foreign policy whereby we spew nonsensical and castrated gibberish that impresses our friends at @Davos. [I'll repost.]

[Kevin Vuong 🇨🇦 @KevinVuongxMP]

For Canadians seeking to understand the context of Venezuela, ignore the NDP & the professional protestors grieving their socialist dictator.

Listen to Venezuelans:

“We want Canadians to understand that we Venezuelan Canadians, we agree with this.” https://t.co/zbKyCofeZv

[John Drazic @Nanooser1]

Carney government sowing seeds for corruption in Ottawa https://t.co/yBJJ6ku4cy

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Eli Sharabi, who was held hostage in Gaza:

"I was treated worse than animal. NO ONE in Gaza helped me. The civilians saw us suffering and they cheered our kidnappers. They were DEFINITELY INVOLVED. My wife and daughters were murdered"

This must go viral. The truth must be seen.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Memorial to the victims of communism in Prague where the “warmth of collectivism” killed thousands of people.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Shiri Bibas and her two sons, Kfir and Ariel.

They were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th, held in a dark underground tunnel in Gaza, where they were all strangled to death by Gazan terrorists.

I’ll never let the world forget.

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Why the Somali fraud wasn't called out by more Minnesotans is clear.

They're black immigrants, and critics don't want to be called racist.

As a son of African immigrants, I'll say: Some cultures are incompatible.

Immigrants who won't choose American culture shouldn't be here.