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Vladimir Putin catastrophically miscalculated his invasion of Ukraine. For ‘the great strategist’, flush from his successes in seemingly restoring some of the lost greatness of Russia (former USSR), through his globally high profile military victories in Syria, and the sudden, bold and successful annexation of Crimea, the invasion and control of Ukraine seemed the proverbial ‘walk in the park’.

It seems that the excesses of Trump’s regime are starting to be a bit too much even for the soapy brained, reality-altering cult of Donald Trump, as some of them turn with the pained expression of ‘what did we do’-look to recant their unconditional support for the most destructive leader of this Century.

Photo from Week.com opinion piece: Trump for king.

It’s a fact, almost 80 years to the month - the end of World War II - fascism was decisively defeated around the world at a horrendous cost of an estimated 50 to 85 million people dead, mostly civilians, and the most of civilian deaths were in Russia and China.

Top: Sept 3rd - 80th Victory Parade in China Bottom: June 14th - 250th Army Anniversary & Trump's Birthday Parade China hosted the...

For decades, especially since WWII, America enjoyed the world’s acquiescence to its leading position in economic and military might, its moral high-ground position as the world’s leading democracy promoting virtuous values such as equality, freedom, free-speech, human rights and justice for all. This liberal and democratic leading position was in contrast to the other major but dark and draconian super-powers of communist USSR (Russia) and China, who led other world autocraci

Finally, Donald Trump got his military parade. It also just happened to be his 79th birthday, and there is little doubt that little detail played a big part in him ordering the military parade on the US Army’s 250th  anniversary.

After the unthinkable devastation of the First and Second World Wars, the Jewish communities in Europe, after having experienced centuries of systemic discrimination, and nothing short of the ultimate horror of planned systematic extermination by a supposed superior race during World War II (“WWII”), found almost universal sympathy and support from the general world at large. 

Hey, who upended the apple cart? Decades of carefully negotiated global trade has been upended with potentially severe consequences for all major economies (as the current President of America puts it: who cares for the lesser ones, 'the are all shit holes', right?).

Canada has one of the largest underdeveloped land masses as a country with one of the smallest populations, and yet