He Pulled a Biden!<\/p>\n
Trudeau Tries to Distract from Anti-Mandate Trucker Protests with Ukraine Panic<\/a><\/p>\n The government of far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u00a0withdrew<\/a> nonessential personnel from Canada\u2019s embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, this weekend and sent the nation\u2019s defense minister to the capital to discuss an alleged potential Russian invasion of the country.<\/p>\n The extensive focus on Ukraine for Canada follows nearly two weeks of elevated coverage of the eight-year invasion of Ukraine by Moscow that became a global priority after President Joe Biden hinted that America would not aid its allies in Kyiv if Russia engages in a \u201cminor incursion<\/a>\u201d of the country. Tensions between the Biden administration and its counterpart under Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have escalated since the \u201cminor incursion\u201d remark, culminating with an exasperated Zelensky telling reporters during a press conference Friday that his country has lost nearly $500 million in foreign investment since Biden predicted a further invasion of the country.<\/p>\n It also follows a tumultuous week of domestic politics in Canada. After nearly two years of onerous pandemic lockdown policies under the Trudeau government, a protest convoy organized by truckers across Canada arrived in Ottawa this weekend, flooding the capital with\u00a0thousands<\/a>\u00a0of peaceful protesters demanding the restoration of basic civil rights stripped from Canadians in the name of public health. Police following the event\u00a0documented<\/a>\u00a0no incidents of violence, injuries, or any major disturbances following the peaceful protests.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Trudeau has dismissed the thousands of protesters as a \u201cfringe\u201d minority and fled to an undisclosed location shortly before the truckers arrived in the capital. He has since\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0that he tested positive for Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n Canadian National Defense Minister Anita Anand\u00a0arrived<\/a> in Kyiv on Sunday for meetings with senior Ukrainian officials and to draw attention to Canada\u2019s military support for the country:<\/p>\n \u201cAt the current time, I think it is important to look at the aid that Canada has announced to date for Ukraine: $340 million (about US$266 million) to support the extension and expansion of Operation UNIFIER, with potentially 400 soldiers authorized under the extension;\u201d Anand\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0Kyiv Post, \u201c<\/em>$120 million (about US$94 million) loaned to Ukraine announced last week; $50 million (about US$39 million) announced this week for economic development.\u201d<\/p>\n Anand said that \u201call options do remain on the table\u201d regarding Canadian support for Ukraine in the event of a further Russian invasion, including offering Ukraine more weapons.\u00a0\u201cWe will make decisions based on the needs on the ground in Ukraine, as well as our capacity at home and in our other missions around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Anand met with Ukrainian Defense Minister\u00a0Oleksii Reznikov on Sunday.<\/p>\n On Monday, the\u00a0Global and Mail<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that Anand had alerted Ukrainian officials that Canadian troops had moved west of the\u00a0Dnieper River, a position that would allow a quicker response should Russia cross the border into Ukraine.<\/p>\n The Trudeau administration\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0this weekend that it would withdraw non-essential staff from its Kyiv embassy, hundreds of miles from the Russian border, and the families of those remaining \u2013 a move following the Biden administration\u2019s last week, which outraged the Ukrainian government. On Friday, Zelensky\u00a0told<\/a> reporters that the panic coming from Washington had resulted in the withdrawal of $437 million dollars in foreign investment from Ukraine within a little over a week, necessitating the use of gold from government coffers to stabilize the national currency, the hryvnia.<\/p>\n \u201cI mentioned this to President Biden \u2026 we need to stabilize the economy of our country because of those signals which say that tomorrow there will be war,\u201d Zelensky said referring to a call with Biden on Thursday, \u201cbecause these signals were sent by even leaders of the respected countries, sometimes they are not even using diplomatic language! They are saying, \u2018Tomorrow is the war.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Zelensky, speaking from Kyiv, urged journalists circulating reports that Kyiv was on the brink of invasion to simply visit the city.<\/p>\n \u201cIf they want to know what the situation is, they can come to Kyiv. Do we have tanks on the street? No,\u201d Zelensky asserted. \u201cThe feeling is, if you\u2019re not here, the feeling is \u2026 the image that mass media create is that we have troops on the roads, we have mobilization, people are leaving for places \u2013 that\u2019s not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t need this panic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Zelensky also told reporters that, according to Ukrainian intelligence, the number of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border currently is not significantly different than during the same time of year in 2021, when the country\u2019s political woes did not make international headlines.<\/p>\n In remarks during her trip on Sunday, Anand addressed the fact that the reports from the United States and Western Europe differed significantly from what the president of Ukraine was saying about the situation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is difficult for me to say what intelligence the Ukrainian government has,\u201d she\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0reporters, according to the CBC. \u201cThe intelligence we are utilizing is consistent with our allies across the NATO alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n Anand insisted that there was \u201cintelligence that is sound, that there is increasing escalation of Russian troops at the Ukrainian border, including in Belarus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He Pulled a Biden! Trudeau Tries to Distract from Anti-Mandate Trucker Protests with Ukraine Panic The government of far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u00a0withdrew nonessential personnel from Canada\u2019s embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, this weekend and sent the nation\u2019s defense minister to the capital to discuss an alleged potential Russian invasion of the country. 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