Jonathan Manthorpe
@mogadishu92.bsky.social

The reactions today from our own leaders, and those of European and other democracies are an achievement for Trump. With one speech he has isolated the US from the rest of the world. America is the new North Korea, except Pyongyang has more friends.

CNN said in the lunchtime news today the US has not imported oil from Russia since it imposed sanctions on Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine.

A thorough and thoughtful assessment in The British Columbia Review of my latest book, "On Canadian Democracy," which has become more relevant by the day since it was published last June.
thebcreview.ca/2024/12/20/2...

The problems with Canada's political culture are, I contend in "On Candian Democracy," the fault of all political parties. But mostly, they stem from national complacency and refusal to face reality.