Jtucker
Jedi Master
Some really excellent points, Michael. I have thought along the same lines for most of it as well. On the Foreign policy angle, I find it difficult to penetrate because there is so much Black Box going on and much of it is scripted while back channel communications are opaque to us plebs.
One thing I will add from the Canadian perspective is that the Emergency measures act - specifically the freezing of bank accounts was not taken lightly here by anyone I know. It was a very shocking pivot point. Did we all expect the cops to beat up the peaceful trucker protest? 100% yes. And would the leaders be treated like terrorists - yes. Everyone involved knew there was a high probability of that.
But jumping the gun on arbitrary account seizures for people donating to a protest filled with bouncy castles and truckers - was not predicted by anyone. Hundreds of millions of dollars were withdrawn from our chartered banks and international, institutional investors panicked and pressured our fake senate to vote the bill down.
One theory is that the hubris of Freeland and Trudeau led them to overreach without being authorized to do so. And now it's caused a huge problem - because of exactly what the C's said about exposure due to the Freedom Convoy. Canada's relationship with huge international investors who don't live here, is very key t understanding our economy. We are a colony of extracting resources and were specifically set up for that reason. Threatening any investment from abroad (hence threatening elites) was in my opinion, a miscalculation. People here that didn't support the convoy and generally don't support working people period were shocked at the overreach. It may have caused more problems for the Reset than simply being a trial balloon for the dark masters. My guess would be that Trudeau flying to Europe this weekend under the guise of "Ukrainian Peace Negotiations" is more about coming to heel on his buffoonery throwing back the curtain on the Wizard of Oz for three weeks straight.
Although I think you're right that the plan still goes forward as you describe - it's now harder because the central reason (in our Canadian cultural case anyway) that the general population showed little resistance was that their comfort and lifestyle wasn't threatened. Now everyone sees it can be very easily. Sad that the Charter of Rights means less to most than their bank accounts, but at least there is an awakening to government omni-power.
