The office of the \u201cSpecial Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine\u201d has been created for Canada\u2019s ex-deputy prime minister<\/p>\n
Last month, former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, was dropkicked from newish Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s cabinet. He did her a massive favor. Because now she doesn\u2019t have to pretend to represent Canada anymore while following her true passion: representing Ukraine.
\nFreeland has a new role: \u201cSpecial Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine,\u201d officially speaking.\u00a0The first question that came to mind when hearing this was, \u201cWhen does she finally get to move to Kiev, already?\u201d Imagine my disappointment to learn that she doesn\u2019t.
\nWell, actually, my first question was, \u201cIs Ukraine under reconstruction now? Did I slip into a coma and miss the bomb show wrapping up?\u201d Nope, the conflict is still raging. But I guess it makes it sound like she\u2019s going to be keeping a careful watch over the money that Carney has \u201cpledged\u201d to Ukraine \u2013 perhaps in the same way that people \u201cpledged\u201d to pay me a dollar per lap for my childhood swim-a-thons, then bailed when I came back to collect after competing 500 laps. I guess time will tell. Canadian taxpayers can only pray that will be the case, and that Carney is just virtue signaling Canadian cash for Ukraine and not actually sending any there, in the same way that the jokers running the EU make a big stink about the evils of Russian energy while importing it on the down-low through third countries.
\nIn the meantime, Canadian cash for weapons, \u201cfor Ukraine,\u201d is sure pumping up the integrated US\/Canada military-industrial complex, which seems to be the go-to Western strategy for boosting their GDP these days amid their tanking economies.<\/p>\n
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Another question: Will Freeland use her experience in blocking Canadian bank accounts as Trudeau\u2019s finance minister during the Covid-era Freedom Convoy anti-mandate protests to block shady cash flowing to Ukraine? I\u2019m guessing not, if only because those Canadian bank accounts were blocked under the ultimately false pretext (as determined by Canadian intelligence) that foreign cash was funding interference with Canadian government decisions. In Ukraine\u2019s case, that foreign cash is considered a plus because it\u2019s coming from the West. Seems like she\u2019d be more likely to tackle anything that got in its way.
\nAnyway, Freeland has just used her new Canadian taxpayer-funded role to plead Ukraine\u2019s case in the pages of the Financial Times.
\nShe wrote that \u201cthe fact is that we need Ukraine to save us,\u201d presumably from the other side of the world, in Ottawa. She then goes on to qualify some murky, contentious drone activity around the Ukraine\u2013EU border as \u201crecent incursions into Central and even Western Europe.\u201d At least I think that\u2019s what she\u2019s referring to. Unless I somehow missed the Russian tanks rolling down the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. She doesn\u2019t specify. But no matter. All the better, apparently, to argue that these incidents \u201cshow NATO needs Ukraine as a shield against Russia.\u201d
\nSounds like what Vladimir Zelensky was saying just the other day. The Ukrainian leader was going off about an incident last month of some alleged 90 drones over Ukraine, which he said were heading for Poland. He said that if only 20 of them actually ended up there, it was only because Kiev shot the rest down. The implication? That Ukraine was saving Poland. Trump was asked about it at the time and didn\u2019t exactly praise Zelensky as Poland\u2019s savior. He basically shrugged, saying, look, whatever \u2013 could have just been accidental.
\nFreeland also cited Trump\u2019s tongue-in-cheek remarks from the other week when he rapped on social media about how Ukraine was winning on the battlefield against Russia and probably could even conquer Russian territory. He then offered to sell the Europeans all the American weapons they wanted in that endeavor. What part of Trump\u2019s wishing them \u201cgood luck\u201d did Freeland not understand as a commentary on Trump being keen to profit off the EU\u2019s delusions, as long as Washington doesn\u2019t have to get its hands dirty? She grasped none of it, apparently. Because she wrote in the FT that \u201cUS President Donald Trump got it right at the UN last week: Ukraine is a winner, and Ukraine can win.\u201d
\nFreeland literally had just written of Ukraine in the same piece, a bit further up, that \u201cwe have assumed it would lose, at least without extraordinary effort from us.\u201d Really? Your whole posse in Canada has been saying otherwise for years. \u201cUkraine will win and Canada will be there until the end,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, in early 2023, when she was defense minister.<\/p>\n
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So now we\u2019ve gone from \u201cUkraine will win\u201d to \u201cUkraine will only win if we do everything except pull the trigger\u201d to \u201cwe need Ukraine because NATO is so weak.\u201d Yeah, so weak that NATO is actually contemplating blasting Temu-grade drones out of the sky with F-16s, as the Romanian defense minister suggested during a recent Warsaw Security Forum panel.
\nFreeland adds that the West can learn from Ukraine about \u201chow to fight a 21st-century war, and how to invent, manufacture and then keep reinventing the weapons we need for this new way of war in real time.\u201d Look out, folks! Freeland has just discovered guerrilla warfare \u2013 but apparently not the double-edged sword it represents.
\nIt\u2019s all good when Ukrainian Nazis are getting schooled by NATO forces to fight Russia, and when they then graduate to fulfilling Freeland\u2019s fantasy of pretending to teach NATO how to do guerrilla warfare \u2013 as though it\u2019s a matter of NATO lacking ability and not just guerrilla warfare being way too cheap for NATO to justify washing tax cash into defense coffers.
\nWhat could possibly go wrong with letting Ukraine play asymmetric warfare \u201cteacher\u201d to justify the West turning it into a giant weapons toy box? It\u2019s not like there haven\u2019t been reports lately of Latin American drug cartels getting their drone training in Ukraine to use back home.\u00a0We\u2019re talking about Mexican and Colombian gangsters, according to Defense News, one of the leading military publications. Just your average start-up, really.
\nFreeland then proceeds to cheerlead the idea recently promoted by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz of straight-up stealing \u20ac140 billion in European-held Russian assets as a \u201cloan\u201d for Ukraine. Ukraine apparently just pays it back once Russia admits fault and writes a check, huh? In other words: never.
\nIt\u2019s one thing for Freeland to justify her new role by bloviating and virtue-signaling in the Western press. It\u2019s another to make taxpayers foot the bill for it when her real job should be to end this war as quickly as possible through diplomacy so some legitimate reconstruction business can be done in Ukraine\u2019s interests that doesn\u2019t just involve perpetuating a taxpayer-funded racket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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