Here’s a montage of Trump saying over the past five months that the war with Iran is about to end and that the Iranians want to make a deal “so badly.”
Canada’s boreal forest — the source of much of the wildfire smoke drifting into the U.S. — isn’t like our managed forests in the lower 48.
It’s the largest intact forest ecosystem on Earth: roughly 1.3 billion acres (about 78 times larger than Alaska’s Tongass, our biggest national forest, and 7 times larger than all 154 U.S. National Forests combined). It stretches in an almost continuous belt from the Yukon to Newfoundland.
Why can’t they just do controlled burns like we do here?
Because most of it is remote, roadless wilderness.
• Less than 9% of Canada’s population lives in the boreal region.
• Less than 1% of the forest itself is developed.
• Vast areas have no roads and are only accessible by aircraft or winter roads.
You can’t send crews in to do prescribed burns across a billion+ acres of inaccessible terrain the way we can in populated areas near roads and communities in the U.S. Wildfire has been nature’s primary management tool in these ecosystems for thousands of years.
Smoke reaching the Northeast isn’t new either. It happened in 1950, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025, and now 2026. Weather (especially upper-level wind patterns) determines where the smoke goes, not just where the fires are burning.
Blaming Canada’s government for “not controlling” these fires is political theater. The scale and inaccessibility make large-scale suppression or prevention across that wilderness fundamentally different — and in many places, practically impossible — from managing forests near U.S. population centers.
Nature runs that forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.
@magachrchpastr You’re an idiot like most MAGAts. Maybe you should be asking why he started a war with Iran and now 16 US military bases have been bombed and close to destroyed in the Middle East..but yeah..smoke from Canada
@Alex_Oloyede2 STFU…prob 5000 drones in there. All Ru does is bomb civilian targets. Ru is going to be a failed state b/c citizens are cowards and army full of drunks, corruption and inbreds. Fuck Russia.
@RabbiPoupko More are on order. Over 90 aircraft battling fires in Ontario. Govt does need to invest more but significant changes in past two years in number of fires due to dry conditions. You could check this first before posting when there’s zero relationship between the two.
Putin
Last night Donald Trump released a declassified document that says his own intelligence community identified Putin as personally running an operation to defeat my father in 2020, built around a fake Burisma corruption scandal centered around me and executed through prominent Americans.
Trump tasked his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to fly to Kyiv and meet a known Russian agent.
The Americans who ran, laundered, and legitimized the operation:
Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani. John Solomon. Joe DiGenova. Victoria Toensing. Lev Parnas. Igor Fruman. Chanel Rion. Sean Hannity. Steve Bannon. Miranda Devine. Ken Vogel. Ron Johnson. Chuck Grassley. James Comer. Jim Jordan.
To name a few.
An operation formally sanctioned by Trump's own Treasury Department on September 10, 2020, and expanded to include more named actors on January 11, 2021.
Oh, and don't forget the Russian-linked FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who later pleaded guilty to making the entire Burisma bribery story up.
The record exists and we have all the receipts, and more.
@terrideboer Your comments are ridiculous. Take a look at how much area is covered by forests. We send water bombers and pilots to US to help and you’re all just aggrieved little assholes. Go fuck yourself.
To our American friends, this is a map of forests in North America.
347 million hectares of wilderness in highly remote areas cannot be contained by “proper forest management”.
These are enormous, mostly uninhabited areas that are prone to lightning strikes causing wildfires.
@EricLDaugh On behalf of Canada, go fuck yourself. We send water bombers and pilots to you for help and you’re all just aggrieved little assholes. Again, go fuck yourself.