Russia hits 9 Canadian officials with sanctions

These sanctions have ZERO real impact. There's no way any of those people will travel to Russia or nations friendly to Russia.

d with the emphasis on cooperation in areas such as the Arctic issues, r

Canada, Russia, US, and and the rest of the World, leave the Arctic alone.

Conservation! Not more resource extraction.

An eye for an eye

Russian officials accused of involvement in the imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

he was actually convicted of serious fraud. And he jumped bail. And he is a Neo-Nazi. Incited violence and rioting.

but hey, let’s hate Russia.

he was actually convicted of serious fraud. And he jumped bail. And he is a Neo-Nazi. Incited violence and rioting.

but hey, let’s hate Russia.

Oh sure, let's ignore the Kremlin korruption and power monger Putin and trust their propaganda completely. By the way, your consistent CCP cheering kind of drowns out any concern you claim to have for poor Russia.

The sooner Russia (and China while we're at it) has a fully functioning democratic system (not a sham controlled by a select few...) with the ability to have more than one choice of political party to look out for them.

They keep arresting and releasing this guy like it will make them look like they're not manipulating Russian citizens ability to "vote" like a real democracy by leaving closely controlled political "opponents" around in spite of the fact they've either killed off or stifled any political opposition parties to run against the ruling class.

fully functioning democratic system (not a sham controlled by a select few...)

Give us an example of such a country (and yes, the US or its proxies in Europe don't fit in here)

Give us an example of such a country (and yes, the US or its proxies in Europe don't fit in here)

You know exactly that the US, Canada, EU nations, and UK have a very well functioning democratic governments. I know exactly how democracy in my country and many of my countries allies works. It is not 100% perfect, but at least we all have the chance to strive to be better every step of the way.

Besides, you're attempt at trying to deflect from your own history of pro Putin's Russia propaganda shows exactly what kind of perspective you'd like to promote here. True democracies have leaders, who guide and support their country for the good of their people by the will and choice of the people who vote them into leadership positions. This is without use of manipulation, oppression, and deceit that those who claim to be "leaders" only desire to RULE and not LEAD.

Putin has been in power since I was YOUNG. 20+ YEARS him and the current corrupt Kremlin cronies have MANIPULATED, OPPRESSED, and use DECEIT to maintain power and control over their country and it's people for their own greed and corruption. So please feel free to explain away such things, and we'll gladly call out your BS.

@HonestDictator

I respect your right to believe that these "democratic" governments are not corrupt, manipulative or deceitful, let's just leave it at that

Don't think anyone is naive enough to believe that there isn't any corruption going on at all. But at least we have a higher chance to expose and actually deal with it a lot easier than certain countries with high government corruption and very little to no way to deal with or expose it.

For example this wonderful example of an independent corruption perception index shows the US at rank 25 in 2020, UK and Canada at Rank 11, Germany at rank 9.

Russia at rank 129. China at rank 78.... wow... beaten by China... that must hurt.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020/index

Amazing how the best democracies are the ones with the lowest corruption index. New Zealand and Denmark.

By the way. The US went UP to rank 25 in 2020 compared to a much better of rank 16 in 2015~16... I wonder what could have possibly caused such a drastic change. Russia index changed a lot too during the past few years. (note to mods: if you could merge my past few comments into one it would be much appreciated.)