From @JohnIbbitson: central Canadian pundits and politicians who complain that Alberta is fomenting division, putting the future of the country at risk must grasp the essential truth: that they contributed to the circumstances that created this situation https://t.co/iTtWWlCote
I look forward each week to the Kingston Whig Standard’s column on international affairs - hats off to @GeoffyPJohnston for consistently high quality assessments https://t.co/qTFKqG4Qj1
"At the moment, the United States is negotiating with a regime that President Trump claimed we had already changed, to open a strait that was supposed to be open last month, and to end a nuclear program that we said we had obliterated."
So no, things are not going well: https://t.co/N1whNpkzAw
Stuart Stevens: “No one will stop him. The only people who can stop Trump are Republicans. They’re not going to stop him. They’re going to let him keep crashing and killing and destroying.” https://t.co/700ZpqQbAv
Kingston Whig Standard’s @GeoffyPJohnston joined Andrew Pinsent on @CFRAOttawa to discuss Russia’s illegal strikes on Ukrainian civilians & Ukraine’s powerful response. https://t.co/0mU5MMQIHQ
HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran:
- Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98%
- Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade)
- Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds
- Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz)
- Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility
- Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium
- Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium
Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains
- Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules
- Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years
- Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years
Ooops, sorry!
That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.
#BREAKING: US has asked Lithuania, Poland & Ukraine to allow the transit of Belarusian potash through their territories. For Kyiv, the request borders on geopolitical absurdity: facilitating export revenues for the very regime that helped launch the war now devastating Ukraine https://t.co/P4b25Dq1qa
Kingston Whig Standard’s @GeoffyPJohnston provides a good update on Ukraine’s continuing need for security assistance and their capabilities to defend themselves https://t.co/P3WA2ldGS5
An excellent piece from Jamelle Bouie (gift article): I feel dreadfully sorry for blacks in America today. They must feel their souls have been suddenly ripped apart https://t.co/WqTUCz4w8T
In a swipe at Trump’s policy positions Kingston Whig Standard’s @GeoffyPJohnston: “it is clear that the world needs more international coordination, not less, in responding to increasingly frequent outbreaks of zoonotic infections.” https://t.co/jrTvDSWgZo