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inputs or pay employees skilled employees are scarce on the ground either having fled or sent to the front consumer goods including food are hard to come by last night russia sent 40 missiles and 450 drones into ukraine last night all recent attacks have targeted ukrainian electical and gas hubs leaving millions without light heat or water however karma is striking back hard as the severe cold is destroying old soviet infrastructure that was never maintained https www facebook com reel 1780016036005874 https www facebook com reel 1749989352362464 usa is no lonjger a reliable partner in nato europe now understand that they need to both a strong political alliance eu and a strong military alliance that is not fragmented with each country needing to specialize in specific military equipment how fast they can gear up is the question i have not been blogging lately as i have been working on getting my wife s documents from ircc that is a rant for a future post posted by the blog fodder at 4 33 00 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday january 22 2026 oh canada the whole world is talking about the 17 minute speech our prime minister mark carney delivered at davos and justifiable so he got a standing ovation the third one in the history of davos the other two being nelson mandela and volodymyr zelenskyy canada is seen as the new leader of the free world pm carney said what others thought but wouldn t say we have separated ourselves from america and are making some 19 alliances with other middle powers we also signed a trillion dollars worth of trade deals with china and now with development billions from dubai to tht end i have collected a few memes about our great country sun dogs east of regina thanks terri temps today in saskatoon typical january replaced by the loonie replaced by the twonie posted by the blog fodder at 9 18 00 pm 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday january 7 2026 are we next usa ambassador to canada can t understand why canada would not want to be the 51st state maybe these will help him understand if someone reads them to him trump s attack on venuzuela seems to have triggered even more madness declaring that usa must have greenland for security reasons in nonsense as usa has a military base on greenalnd and a defense agreement with denmark yes greenland has mineral resources but i expect trump is too stupid to know why that is important stephen miller is actually running foreign policy along homeland security s ice deporting imprisonng or out right killing brown pople there are 65 million hispanics in us of which many were there before usa was a country if stephen miller has his way they will all be disposed of one way or another whether trump will attack canada militarily or not is debateable economic warfare is more likely cusma is up for renewal and trump will likely refuse to negotiate a new agreement carney is doing his best to put canada in the eu trading block and now in the eu safe program f35 s are out grippen is in nato is dead this is from sean prpick on facebook taken from a globe and mail opinion piece a pretty bracing column has been published in the globe mail by leading scholars thomas homer dixon and adam gordon raising the possibility of a post venezuela military invasion of canada their scenario hinges on failed independence referendum in alberta creating a casus belli for trump who will denounce the results as fake and then roll invasion forces across the 49th parallel but i m going to raise the ante here and say the scenario could be even worse i think there s a better than even chance that a sympathetic sask party government will be so moved by premier smith s referendum should it take place they will stage a coordinated referendum here at the same time homer dixon and gordon predict a 30 yes vote for separation in alberta i think it would be about 15 here in saskatchewan but the margin of victory for pro canada forces in twin referendums probably doesn t matter the vote here in my province would be be equally fake in trump s eyes and any results coming out from elections saskatchewan will just incite him more and that ll raise the chances he ll invade not only sending military columns through alberta border crossings but ours as well homer dixon and gordon are right however fantastic these scenarios appear today we have to be ready in the near future we need to prepare for the possibility that the u s uses military coercion against canada by thomas homer dixon who is executive director of the cascade institute at royal roads university and professor emeritus at the university of waterloo and adam gordon who served as the senior legal and policy adviser to canada s minister of foreign affairs and is currently an affiliated researcher at the cascade institute so this is the peace president donald trump promised that under his leadership the u s would eschew nation building forever wars regime change and violent foreign engagements more generally yet since his second inauguration he s ordered military action in syria yemen somalia and iraq bombed iran s nuclear weapons complexes and blown up more than a score of boats allegedly carrying drugs in the caribbean in just the past two weeks he has launched missiles against islamic terrorists in northern nigeria declared that the u s was locked and loaded for another attack on iran and now decapitated venezuela s government in this context canadians must acknowledge the real risk that mr trump will use military coercion against our country it s important to connect three recent data points first in his press conference on saturday mr trump explicitly stated that the venezuela operation s aim was to secure access to the country s oil then in an interview with the atlantic on sunday he refused to rule out military action to seize greenland despite the fact that greenland is a democracy and through denmark a nato member saying we do need greenland absolutely from mr trump s perspective three dominant powers russia china and the u s are establishing coercive hegemony in their respective domains with its oil minerals and water canada is a vital resource hinterland in the u s s part of the map second the just released u s national security strategy outlines the trump corollary to the monroe doctrine and identifies u s pre eminence in the western hemisphere as a main geostrategic objective but canada can t count on exclusion from the doctrine s ambit in the 1950s through the 1980s when the u s intervened in guatemala cuba dominican republic chile nicaragua grenada and panama it was looking south and treated us as more an irrelevancy than a vassal in contrast today the trump administration has little affection for canada and it s clearly concerned about geostrategic insecurities as far north as the high arctic third and finally nothing in international law protects canada that shouldn t have protected venezuela as a nation we rely on exactly the same rules the obligation to respect state sovereignty the prohibition on use of force and the principle of non intervention for our own connecting these dots a plausible scenario for u s application of military force against canada to seize our oil resources goes something like this an independence referendum in alberta during which separatists receive a huge infusion of grey maga money sees a majority vote to remain part of canada but with 30 per cent or more voting for separation mr trump declares the result is fake and that actual support for separation was well over 50 per cent alberta separatists then appeal to the u s for help claiming various kinds of oppression the u s moves troops to the northern montana border and tells the rest of canada that alberta must be allowed to join america as the 51st state in the above situation ensuring electoral process integrity is clearly job one we can also make it clear to the u s that any use of military force will be extremely costly by dramatically accelerating investments in national service and homeland defence rapidly building out domestic defence industries and developing a national drone strategy finally we should bolster ties with traditional allies and novel partners alike and work alongside those who are similarly threatened by giant neighbours such as finland the baltic republics mexico and taiwan we should aim to marshal a global consensus that such flagrant violations of international law are unacceptable and will bring the u s costly reputational harm as has been true for russia harm that will only grow exponentially if the u s repeats such actions in canada or elsewhere the world is wildly non linear now so little can be predicted with confidence running venezuela whatever that means will almost certainly not work in the longer term as the country fractures or rallies against the u s and elsewhere in the world china might use the action against venezuela as a license to attack taiwan but whatever surprises are in store one fact is certain our neighbour s autocratic and avaricious leader is demonstrably eager to use his country s massive military power to advance his interests we must get ready posted by the blog fodder at 6 10 00 pm 12 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday january 2 2026 who knows where the time goes when judy collins released colors of the day in 1972 i was working for the honourable company of adventures aka here before christ in inuvik and cambridge bay it showed up in our stocks a year later i bought it and nearly wore it out her cover of ian tyson s someday soon has never been equalled and earned her a spot on cbc s ian and sylvia ten year reunion in 1986 time goes by slowly but when you look back 50 years has gone by who knows where the time goes judy collins is performing in concert in saskatoon on january 27th my daughter gave me tickets for christmas posted by the blog fodder at 3 44 00 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday december 23 2025 19 years today tanya s sister called her from siberia and my kids texted congratualtions otherwise we would have completely forgotten our anniversary i asked tanya to marry me after i had met her people in siberia and they approved tanya said she would marry me if i moved to ukraine internet was not so good in those days but sure first she had to come to canada to meet my kids they loved her and she has been the best step mom ever mostly they loved her because she was taking me to ukraien they said we got married two days before christmas 2006 my cousin did the officiating her friend helen elena stood up with her and did a running translation interpretation my son stood up with me my three daughters sang and then we all went to a steak house for supper here are a few pictures from our wedding we have changed a bit since then no pictures of today but we did have an anniversary supper of beef roast which at today s prices is reserved for celebratory occasions posted by the blog fodder at 6 16 00 pm 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday december 18 2025 dealing with the demons in my head blogging has taken a back seat for a while i needed to get my annual christmas letter written and distributed also my adhd doesnt help me concentrate i got fired at the orange juice factory so if i havent been to visit your blog lately it isnt that i don t care some days coping is difficult my running joke is that my cognative dissonance is caused by sitting under my sad lamp reading the news from usa and ukraine second not so funny is that i have this feeling there is a hole in the bag and the marbles are falling out that is scary my oldest daughter took me to a geriatrician to see how many marbles i have left she looks after me the girls had noticed for some time that my short term memory was giving me some trouble espcially since moving from regina where everything was familiar to saskatoon where very little was familiar dealing with paperwork such as tanya s ei and pr visa documents were getting more difficult and i tended to shut down until i took a break and came back in the morning after a thorough four hour grilling including the montreal cognative assessment on which i did slightly better than trump i at least knew what the animals were but could only remember 4 of 5 words daisy would not stick montreal cognative assessment my geriatrician concluded i have mild cognative impairment and gave me a list of things to do to improve or at least reduce decline key was get out of the house and find a useful purpose hours doom scrolling on the computer was not so helpful so i am volunteering at the western devlopment museum i ve attended the introductory volunteer course and want to take the caring for artifacts course which is needed even to dust displays there is a community woodworking shop where i can go and see what is there i used to love woodworking but have neither tools nor place to work so this could be fun the museum has a working blacksmith shop with a volunteer blacksmith who looks the part they have a harnes sshop but no one doing leeather work or even keeping the leather clean and oiled i want to find a course that will teach me enough to at least be able to emboss belts i need a new western belt anyhow since walking lucky nd reducing intake in my old age i shed 25 kg and wear a 2x shirt now and 42 jeans be proud of me for that my belt is way too long christmas is coming but it doesnt feel very holiday seasony we do have lights up as my oldest daughter dug them out of the shed and strung them up our 3 block street is very nicely lit up at night tanya wants to roast a duck for christmas so we need to track one down at our grocery store all lit up to all my loyal readers merry christmas happy hanukkah happy solstice season s greetings and happy holidays my wish for all of you is a happy peaceful 2026 posted by the blog fodder at 9 28 00 pm 16 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday december 15 2025 ekaterina shelehova christmas caroles this holiday season more than ever we need peace and stability in our lives in our countries and in all the earth this is my wish for 2026 many will not have a happy holiday this year let us pause in life s pleasures and count its many tears please remember them even as we celebrate posted by the blog fodder at 6 04 00 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to comments atom volodymyr and olena zelensky ukraine s president and first lady watching over us about me the blog fodder regina saskatchewan canada husband father step grandfather of four and grandfather of one retired agricultural consultant and beef cattle specialist dog owner amateur wood butcher point and shoot 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