This whole Alberta separatism thing feels very similar to separatist actions in former Soviet-bloc nations:
Russia has this pattern of supporting “separatist” movements in nations where it wants to carve out some territory. They get agents embedded with local malcontents and stir up trouble, eventually legitimizing themselves as a political movement, and then destabilize the national government.
I don’t have any evidence that actually links Russia to Alberta, but we know that Russia has intent to destabilize Western nations and to me this fits the pattern:
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.
Brexit. Donald. Reform. Orban.
Especially idiotic since the freedom idiots were the ones waving around Canadian flags, to the point that during the convoy I assumed anyone with a Canadian flag was an asshole.
I feel that the symbol has been taken back recently though.
It is spelt freedumb!
Bet they’re funded by the same group
It’s been reported that half of the convoy funding came from the US. $10 million, roughly.
And the other half from the russia.
It’s looking like Israel, innit?
Freedumb?
No; it was the Flu Trucks Klan.
Traitors.
A bunch of Benedict Arnolds
Different, but same.
Keep chuckin’ Moe!
Can someone give me a brief synopsis? I’m going there this summer and want the background before possibly chatting with locals.
Alberta is Canada’s Texas. It has a substantial population of populist conservatives that look and sound a lot like the US Republican base.
In recent weeks some Alberta separatists reportedly met with the Trump administration. Presumably, Trump and his followers are considering supporting their ambitions to split off from Canada.
The Freedom Convoy started as a group of truckers who demonstrated against COVID restrictions. Their actions quickly grew into a larger conservative anti-vaccine and anti-government protest.
It should be noted that both groups are/were comitting treason, imo. The convoy had the goal of removing the then-current government and replacing it with their own leaders (as well as imo commiting domestic terrorism against the people of Ottawa). The separatists, reportedly so far but in the likely event is true, are working with a hostile foreign government with the intent to destabilize Canada.
The Canadian gov’t is dangerously close to showing the same toothlessness the US Democrats are showing. If the meetings with the Trump admin prove true, I desperately hope for prosecution.
