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Canada will send $5 billion in aid to Ukraine using funds from seized Russian assets, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday at a peace and security summit in Kyiv.

Trudeau made the pledge as he and a dozen other world leaders are in the Ukrainian capital to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, where support for Ukraine to end the war on its terms and with its territory intact remained strong.

“This is not a conflict Ukraine wanted, provoked or asked for in any way,” Trudeau said at the summit table.

This is a war started for one reason and one reason only: Russia’s desire to erase Ukrainian history and expand their empire.”

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“We cannot return to an era where might makes right,” Trudeau said. “We must do everything in our power to enable Ukraine to secure a just and lasting peace, a peace that cannot be achieved without Ukrainians at the table.”

    • Laser
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      6225 days ago

      The Fuck Trudeau crowd is in shambles

        • @[email protected]
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          True, but polls show he also became more popular once he stopped making blatantly political moves (Carbon Tax exception for Heating Oil, etc) and started making “the proper call on issues”. It might just be a rally-around-the-flag effect with US tariffs & 51st state stuff, but I think it’s quite the coincidence!

          • @[email protected]
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            1425 days ago

            It’s not the polls he’d worry about, it’s the billionaires funding his opponents. Now that he’s retiring, he doesn’t have to deal with campaign fundraising

    • @[email protected]
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      Yes now that he plans to quit he finally wants to make his father proud. He wasnt so bad at the start, but then he just regressed into nothing then into eh then into just shut up.

      Its such a shame he got overwhelmed with high expectations so quickly and just turned into yeah hes th PM, yeah hes okay but whatever. He couldve been and done much more.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness
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      225 days ago

      Not the most familiar with Canadian politics, but isn’t that because he got thrown a lot of Trump-shaped low-hanging fruits?

  • @[email protected]
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    5925 days ago

    Ukrainian troops firing at Russians with weapons purchased with money from seized Russian assets.

    That’s poetry right there.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    4825 days ago

    As an addition: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the UK also announced new sanctions against Russia at the start of this week.

  • Laser
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    3125 days ago

    A lot of mouth breathing Canadians are going to be mad at Trudeau again!

  • @[email protected]
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    Bravo! This is why Canada is loved by other nations.

    It’s also a HUGE “fuck you” to Trump and Putin.

    Slava Ukraini!

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      A lot, nobody has wanted to touch them out of fear that it would erode trust in financial institutions of the countries in question. EU has used its interest as collateral for loans to support Ukraine.

      I hope every penny gets used to throw the murderers out of Ukraine.

  • sunzu2
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    Not very art of the deal there Justin…

    Don’t you want some minerals?!

      • sunzu2
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        So do we… but First Lady Trump needs moar

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            Yes, US.

            I am pretty sure US over all has everything… maybe not lithium or cobalt but with rare earth, US could like invest in its own mines. But for some reason they refused to do that and now depend on china.

            I am not an expert tho. but i don’t think it is the issue of actually having the mineral and more issue of refusing to develop local mines.

    • @[email protected]
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      Bro people actually taking your comment as serious lmaooo

      Did y’all not realize this is obviously a joke?

      • sunzu2
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        Sarcasm can be harder to catch in text form but I thought this one was pretty obvious

    • Laser
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      2525 days ago

      Oh man! You definitely had your tests handed back face down!

      • sunzu2
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        The fact that this man’s common sense behaviour must be justified online is telling how good Russian psyops really are are

        Israel situation exposes this shit even further.

        Alt right never worries about gaza people being slaughtered 🤡

        Tankie Don’t care about Russian casualties only the ukrainain lol heart of gold

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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          I thought the alt-left believes Zelenskyy is a Nazi and Putin is Captain America rushing in to save the day?

    • sunzu2
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      1025 days ago

      What are you relying on to claim that Zelensky is a Zionist?

    • @[email protected]
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      2225 days ago

      You can try the shape the narrative however you’d like but the world knows that Russia is not the good guy in this story.

      • @[email protected]
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        1325 days ago

        Like every BS conspiracy theory, there is a kernel of truth, but it’s exaggerated to a comical extreme. Yes, like pretty much every country, there are some Nazis in Ukraine. The focus from pro-Russian propagandists has often been on the Azov Brigade which IMHO does seems pretty neo-Nazi. However, I also give Ukraine as a whole a bit of a pass because wartime isn’t a great time to de-Nazify and restructure your armed forces.

        • @[email protected]
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          224 days ago

          Especially considering when Russia has been funding neo-nazis all over Europe and Putin has posed as best buddies with a whole bunch of them. Russia loves nazis.

      • sunzu2
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        825 days ago

        Either Russian apologist or a useful “conservative” idiot