Never going to happen. Just some stupid people that avoid facts and only watch conspiracy videos.
In the spirit of Ralph Klein, I think we out to buy these folks one way tickets to the American state of their preference. Let ICE sort them out.
Which is also a complete lie. The ‘surplus’ is Canadian crude oil being imported by American oil companies, refined and then exported at high profit. Canada is actually getting screwed. It would be a trade deficit if the taps stopped, and is another example of how a US benefit of Free Trade is being misrepresented to the MAGA cult by the US regime. Once the investments are in place to repatriate oil processing, I expect Carnie will be discussing the need to turn off the taps. I am not sure if retrofitting old refineries would accelerate the process as it would take at least a decade to build from new. In any case, it would freak out the Koch family (one of the families that actually run the US), so I expect there is a full strategy being developed and played out.
The Monroe Doctrine, everyone in South America knows about it. It’s the excuse to fuck around in everyone’s business in the western hemisphere since 1823.
The article is clear, the market is reacting to Argentinians voting against Milei in mid-term elections, which also wasn’t in line with expectations. His policies are very popular with the market.
Argentina is a financial basket case from years of corruption and government overspending and printing money. I’m not surprised that the enthusiasm for his drastic fiscal restraint has waned quickly. There is no easy way out of these messes.
IBM helped automate the holocaust with punch cards and tabulating machines.
Expect that all large companies are actively pursuing business with the US Gov and DHS until such time that the US gov or specific departments are declared as sanctioned entities, otherwise it is difficult for a public corporation to not do business with it. They are here to make money, and these are the rules they govern themselves with. Further, the Democrats consistently support funding bills that are diverting massive amounts of money to DHS/ICE, so it has become one of the few departments awarding business, not to mention very large lucrative projects.
Now consider sales reps, business units that are basically going to lose their job if the don’t make their number and their only client is the US Gov, then consider these are white collar Americans, the last people in the world that would stick their neck out for anyone, so they are all obedient & complicit. Privately, they may say they are conflicted, but that is nonsense, there is nothing to be conflicted about, and then slither back into something about professionalism.
The contacts are massive to build detainment camps, the AI powered databases of people to fill them, the private cloud to do the processing, 5G network to connect it, the coordination systems, it is all being built as I write this. Let alone the transport services to haul the captives around. Check out the opportunity to profit, the procurement site is public:
https://sam.gov/search/?index=opp&page=1&pageSize=25&sort=-modifiedDate&sfm[status][is_active]=true&sfm[status][is_inactive]=true&sfm[simpleSearch][keywordRadio]=ALL&sfm[simpleSearch][keywordTags][0][value]=Dhs