Our speaker strategy completely exposed the biased, selective enforcement of the Canadian border.
We invited four international speakers. Two were publicly announced, two were kept secret.
None of these four could be reasonably deemed inadmissible by the state. They are not criminals, they are not terrorists, they are not spies. All were gainfully employed in their home countries with return travel booked.
The two speakers that were publicly announced, @cfdownes_ and @MartinSellner_, were faced with every challenge possible to enter the country.
The two that were kept secret, @lucyjaynewhite1 and @RealJarTaylor, had no issues entering the country.
All were attending the same event. All are controversial in the eyes of the Canadian government.
It's very clear that both the IRCC and the CBSA were weaponized by the government specifically in order to disrupt DOMCON26.
We have demonstrated that the state is perfectly capable of preventing people from coming to Canada, they just use those powers to oppress political dissidents instead of to protect Canadian society.
In my view, we have two major challenges: ballistic missiles and funding for Ukraine’s defense.
We are supposed to receive €30 billion in European funds, which we are awaiting. They are tied to the adoption of the relevant legislation. And here it is very important that parliament work – the entire parliament, including the opposition. Because neither the government nor the opposition has this €30 billion, and the money is needed for the defense of the entire country.
In addition, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine currently has a budget shortfall of $27 billion. At the beginning of the year, decisions were made at the Ministry to use in the first half of the year funds that were intended to be disbursed in the second half, and that money went toward drone production and other needs. Now, in the second half of the year, those funds need to be compensated for and supplemented.
Of that amount, we need $8–10 billion to ensure a normal start to next year, because this money is effectively needed in advance – to provide weapons and everything necessary for January 2027. Another nearly $20 billion is for the salaries of our military personnel, payments to the families of those killed, and other areas of funding. A lot of money is needed. I am working on this with the French and the Germans. Practically, we need to bring forward the second portion of the European funds allocated for Ukraine, and this is an extremely difficult task.
From a conversation with journalists (2/3).
To be honest "invaded" is a bit of a stretch. The Yalta agreement handed the Kurils to the Soviets on condition they entered the war against Japan. They did and along with other aspects of Yalta gained territory eg Poland.
It's the problem when losing a war. All sorts of conditions are imposed on the losers.
On top of that there has been plenty of opportunity for Japan to reach some sort of win-win agreement with Russia in the past but they messed up the negotiations.