Bulletins and News Discussion from January 6th to January 12th, 2025 - The Fall of Trudeau - COTW: Canada

Image is of Trudeau and Trump together at Mar-a-Lago in November 2024. Source is here.

The Liberals, headed by Trudeau, have not been doing so hot lately. Polls have been rather poor, showing the party far behind the Conservatives, and the Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (an outspoken apologist for Ukrainian Nazis) resigned recently, with more MPs following her lead. Trump's return to power has shaken the Canadian establishment due to his threats to impose massive tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which will have substantial economic consequences given that Canada sends most of its exports to the US, compounding the economic malaise that has affected most of the world over the last few years.

With all this bad news, there are rumors and reports that Trudeau will soon resign, ending his nine years of rule. His fall would be yet another casualty in the wave of incumbent parties falling across the imperial core, only to be replaced by more conservative parties that have very similar policies but wish to cast all blame and hardship onto minorities.

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https://xcancel.com/trhxianl/status/1877397900180795752
one pov on lebanese president selection
- To me, all the recent changes look like a desperate but sincere attempt to get the ceasefire agreement to work, with the Lebanese government being pressured to do this by the mediators of the agreement, in the United States and France. After it was initially reported that only 25% of the Lebanese army force that was agreed to showed up, suddenly we get a large ampunt of photo ops or the Lebanese army advancing in South Lebanon and destroying Hezbollah equipment, along with Israeli withdrawals in those areas. And these operations coincide with the election of this new Lebanese president. It seems as if the Lebanese state is desperate to make this ceasefire agreement work to try and buy some peace.
  All in all the twitter thread was good until the last tweet, which is honestly just cope. How is the election of a president, to enforce a ceasefire agreement that looks to de-militirise Hezbollah, in any way going to generate any kind of guarantees that would be upheld? The resistance had to fold here to maintain political stability, as mentioned earlier in the thread.
  
  it's pro-hezbollah so obv.
  isntreal is happy (their foreign minister congratulated lebanon), but like i wonder what regular average lebanese thinks over this (e.g. not former vassal militia of pisrael and not hezbollah). Are they happy their army is a little useless resource drain? do they think hezbollah shouldn't have done anything? obviously they are happy with ceasefire, but the rest is like ???

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