Isn’t that what the “enter” button on your keyboard is for? Or does that not work either.

Did anyone else hear the Keystone cops music in their heads, when they pictured this?

Yeah, no thanks.

We don’t speak of “she” who shall not be named, or any events that happened on her show.

So…just overt racism, then?

Yeah, well. Putin also considered Ukraine an easy target, too. So, I think we can safely conclude that Putin doesn’t know shit.

Good ol’ “Republican family values”.

I guess I’ll just repost what I wrote earlier, since you didn’t actually read it…

So, now we’re back to pretending we don’t know what the US is doing? This is an invasion, just with extra steps.

Step 1: Set up an unauthorized drilling site in someone else’s territory, knowing that the local government is going to say, “You can’t do that.”

Step 2: The local government says, “You can’t do that.”

Step 3: Send troops to “defend” US equipment and personnel from potential retaliation by the local government…even though that was never a real threat.

Unauthorized civilian incursion = inevitable military occupation.

“Playing dumb” just makes us look either complicit, or hopelessly stupid. And no one is that stupid.

As for the last part…the US is not authorized to drill in Greenland. How does that not fit the criteria of “unauthorized”?

An invasion is a specific thing well defined by international treaties and history. You can’t just label an approaching vessel with industrial equipment as “an invasion” based on the vibe.

Ummm…no, man. An invasion is when you take control of land that doesn’t belong to you. It can also be called an “annexation” or an “occupation”. And no one needs to “declare” anything. You just have to cross the border into someone else’s territory with your military, and then “not leave”.

As for “acts of war”, do you believe Putin when he says that the invasion of Ukraine and the war they’ve been fighting for the last few years, was just a “special military operation”?

And are you seriously arguing that Canada has no control over who is allowed to come and go from our own ports? That the US can simply move whatever they want through them, for any reason, and Canada has no say in the matter? Seriously? Canadian ports don’t belong to the Americans. They are not international property.

Canadian authorities stop, board and size cargo from departing ships all the time, if they are carrying unauthorized cargo destined for somewhere it isn’t allowed to go. They don’t just look the other way, and say, “Oh well. That’s their problem”, and let it go.

This took me way too long to get.

So, now we’re back to pretending we don’t know what the US is doing? This is an invasion, just with extra steps.

Step 1: Set up an unauthorized drilling site in someone else’s territory, knowing that the local government is going to say, “You can’t do that.”

Step 2: The local government says, “You can’t do that.”

Step 3: Send troops to “defend” US equipment and personnel from potential retaliation by the local government…even though that was never a real threat.

Unauthorized civilian incursion = inevitable military occupation. “Playing dumb” just makes us look either complicit, or hopelessly stupid. And no one is that stupid.

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Mate we’re two idiots on social media discussing what the US is doing. Everyone knows. There’s no playing dumb.

That was my point. Canada can’t just pretend they don’t know what’s going to happen if that ship is allowed to bring that equipment to Greenland. Which means they either allow our ports to be used by the US to invade another country…or they don’t.

Allowing our country to be used as a staging area for the illegal occupation of an ally’s territory should be all the “legal pretext” we need to tell the US to go fuck themselves. If we let them drag our country into this, then our government just put us on the wrong side of whatever inevitably comes next.

Do you honestly think Canada will side with the US over the rest of NATO? Or even just sit back and watch them invade Greenland, and pretend like there was nothing we could have done to at least distance ourselves from the conflict, by telling the US they can’t use our ports for this?

So you think Canada just “playing dumb” will convince people that we didn’t know what the US was doing?

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What’s also absurd is Canada allowing its ports to be used as a staging ground for what is essentially the opening salvos of a US invasion of one of our other allies. This isn’t “just some ship carrying industrial equipment”. It is a hostile expeditionary force, intent on illegally occupying a Canadian ally’s territory.

Doing nothing in this case would put Canada on the wrong side of events that could potentially lead to a conflict with the rest of NATO. This is not an accident. Allowing the US to use Canadian ports like this, would put Canada in an impossible position with the rest of our allies in Europe. It cannot be allowed.

So would allowing them to use a Canadian port to once again violate international law. By launching an illegal drilling operation from Canadian soil, they would be making Canada at least somewhat complicit. It’s not like Canada can pretend they didn’t know what was happening.

This is why Buddhists teach that “attachments” are a bad thing.

Yeah, no. It’s up to both ends to make sure that what’s on those ships, is legal. You need to file paperwork with both ports, making sure that what you are loading, is going to a place that you are legally allowed to unload.

Imagine the shit-storm that would come our way, if Canadian ports simply “allowed” cargo containers full of weed to be shipped to China. What’s the problem? It’s legal here, so who cares where it’s going, right?

No. It can’t be allowed to leave, if it doesn’t have a legal destination. We have obligations to observe international shipping laws. If we didn’t, then every ship leaving Canadian ports would need to be searched and possibly seized, just in case…no matter where they are going, or what’s on board.

Well, that hardly seems fair.