• cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
    69·
    15 days ago

    If you want peace, prepare for war.

    I’m not being facetious and I’m not joking, and I don’t think he is either.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
    61·
    15 days ago

    Here comes the “special military operation”, but it’s not a declaration of war so he doesn’t need congressional approval.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      23·
      15 days ago

      Actually thanks to the 2001 AUMF he doesn’t need Congress as long as it’s part of the (still ongoing, never officially ended) “war on terror”. Which, presumably, would include stopping WMDs.

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    15 days ago

    I agree that this is just so he has reason to continue his attacks, I am guessing it will be aimed at Mexico but Canada needs to be ready.

  • pticrix@lemmy.caEnglish
    30·
    15 days ago

    Soooo can we declare Purdue Pharmaceutical and the Sackler family terrorists organization under that rhetoric? Asking for a friendly nation.

  • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    24·
    15 days ago

    In the read out from the PCC meeting on Friday, it says the participating agencies “recognize the need for the United States to take strong action to counter this devastating situation, but these bureaus share significant policy concerns with the Executive Order as drafted.”

    Those concerns include the fact that the EO “cites a statute that does not entail an authority to ‘designate’ substances as WMD,” concerns about “negative effects on entities that legitimately handle, ship, and deliver opioids for pharmaceutical purposes,” and acknowledges that “fentanyl can be treated as a chemical weapon when it is developed or used as a weapon…which risks muddying clearly defined roles and responsibilities between the counternarcotics, counterproliferation, and arms control communities.”

    Trump has blown by just blurring the lines since he was sworn in. He’s wiping them out completely.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    18·
    15 days ago

    Fentanyl is the preferred opiate in hospitals. Cheaper per dose. US used to be able to “influence” Afghanistan to help its drug trade profits. Fentanyl is cheap because it doesn’t need controlled plants in addition to potency.

    https://www.npr.org/2020/10/05/918279481/some-health-workers-suffering-from-addiction-steal-drugs-meant-for-patients

    Hard to get an exact number for hospital theft amount of fentanyl, but

    3,600 cases of alleged drug theft at healthcare facilities over the last five years, including 280 cases so far in 2020.

    111,000 instances here where the folks that were reviewing [drug inventories] could not figure out why the math didn’t add up,"

    What is almost certain is that US healthcare system is a larger source of illegal fentanyl than Canada. If the absurdity that it is a WMD is taken, there should be military security around hospitals before it’s placed at the borders.

    The death potential of the vial of Anthrax Colin Powell quoted to UN was based on using an eye dropper to kill individuals one by one. WMDs actually require mass deaths from one event as a definition.

    Canada needs to immediately stop military cooperation with US. Kick them out of NORAD unless they pay high rent. Stop threatening US enemies, and accepting them as our own.

        • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone
          31·
          14 days ago

          I got it for a wrist reconstruction, the nurse said ill give you some fentayll now and I asked isn’t that the drug that’s killing everyone?

          Her answer before I was off with the fairies.

          “Yeah but you won’t know if you die”

          • dumblederp@aussie.zone
            1·
            14 days ago

            There’s heaps of stuff in hospitals that’ll kill you. I was given oxycontin for an abscess turned septic. Within an hour of it wearing off I was jonesing for another and I’ve never abused opiates recreationally. I’ve even taken a bunch of opium in Laos years ago and found it very easy to stop when I left. The oxy made me immediately want more. The fent I never felt going in and I didn’t want more once I was awake again.

    • oxysis@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      14 days ago

      Can’t wait to be jailed for being an enemy of the state for fucking anything

        • oxysis@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          14 days ago

          I don’t want to be a prisoner but let’s be honest they already know what I have typed. It’s already been green lit to spy on queer folx for being queer.

          • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            22·
            14 days ago

            That’s why you need to get a bottle of fash away and make sure they orally take the product for best results. Emergency use only.

            To avoid getting banned, I’m not going to spell it out but you can read between the lines.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
      93·
      15 days ago

      The statistics are overwhelmingly clear; the most likely person to be killed by a gun is its owner.

    • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
      71·
      15 days ago

      The only resistance that could stand a chance against the US army would be organized by the Canadian government, in which case they’d provide you with the weapon.

      • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        I suspect there will be a sharp divide of the military if they were ordered to deploy within the US. And with that, probably some military hardware.

        There will be insurgent forces throughout all 50 states. And probably disconnected. It will be like hydra. A lack of organization across the entire country could be a benefit as the military would have so many groups to deal with.

    • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
      3·
      14 days ago

      Yeah, probably. There’s lots of good options, but it’s hard to go wrong with a 12-gauge shotgun.

      Edit: and as someone else said, prepare for levee en masse. Get started now, grow a garden if you have space, start guerilla gardening if you don’t, teach yourself to forage, can, and fix shit like tears in clothing. For food crops: beans. Beans beans beans beans beans. And potatoes. You’ll hate life, but you’ll be alive to hate it.