"I think that it is incredibly important for all of us to understand -- you know, that Putin is not hiding what he's up to, he's been very clear including most recently in the FT. He thinks that the liberal idea, the whole way that we live, the whole notion of how we've built our society that's what he's opposed. He's opposed to rules based international order and multilateralism and he is doing a lot of things around the world. When it comes to the geopolitics of Canada's support for Ukraine and of Canada's firm position towards Russia, frankly it has nothing to do with our model on them, the reason that Canada takes the positions we do is, because we do not agree that the liberal idea is dead, we do not accept that the rules based international order should just be thrown away." -- Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime Minister of Canada...
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THE STRAUSSIANS
"The closer you examine it, the clearer it is that neoconservatism, in large part, is simply about enabling the most irredentist elements in Israel and sustaining a permanent war against anyone or any country who disagrees with the Israeli right. That's the conclusion I've been forced to these last few years. And to insist that America adopt exactly the same constant-war-as-survival that Israelis have been slowly forced into ... But America is not Israel. And once that distinction is made, much of the neoconservative ideology collapses." -- Andrew Michael Sullivan But America is not Israel. Or is it? Why is Israel allowed to be a nuclear power yet larger, much older nations, rather, countries that have existed longer than the present day Israel, with a lot more to protect, are forbidden from becoming a nuclear power. All roads lead to Rome it seems. Or is that Jerusalem.
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