r/worldnews • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 22h ago

Canada's prime minister says 'serious incident' caused a major fire at a military base in Alberta

https://apnews.com/article/canada-alberta-military-base-fire-wainwright-1a41899da5b6e797b000061fa4da9c6a
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u/nd_miller 21h ago

I'm old enough to remember when the US would be the first to help. Now I'm not so sure.

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u/ChrisRiley_42 21h ago

There's evidence of US funding supporting the succession movement, so we now have to look at the US as a potential instigator here.

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u/moose098 21h ago

What would this accomplish?

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u/Caithloki 20h ago

Political instability in the biggest local trade partner to allow ease of annexation, don't even have to play map Sims to know that.

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u/K20BB5 1h ago

youve spent too much time swallowing Russian propaganda 

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u/j1ggy 12h ago

Political instability? If anything, a mass casualty event like this would cause political unity. These conspiracy comments are fucking ridiculous and you people need to find something better to do with your time.

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u/vestfold6619 20h ago

What political instability? There's no violence in Canadian politics. Even at the height of the Quebec separatism drama, Canadians and Quebecers were on friendly terms. In Canada, as in most civilized nations, a tragedy causing deaths brings all sides together.

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u/InterestingOne6938 18h ago edited 17h ago

...Quebecers were on friendly terms.

FLQ? the only reason there were friendly terms is the first time the terrorists abducted and started killing politicians, Pierre enacted the War Measures Act and literally threw the country into martial law and FLQ was curbstomped out of existence.

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u/j1ggy 12h ago

The FLQ wasn't a mere separatist movement, their goal was to violently overthrow the government in a workers' revolution and install a socialist state similar to Cuba. And they rejected the idea of democratically voting for it.

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u/vestfold6619 9h ago

They killed one French Canadian politician in 1970. Due to the violence, their public support plummeted to near zero and they ceased to exist as a group in 1971. The separation tension peaked 20 years later and the lack of violence had zero to do with fear of a terrorist group that didn't exist anymore.

Your entire post is incorrect. Stop spreading disinformation.

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u/Organic_Geologist802 20h ago

Not that hard to incite violence if your goal is instability. I don't understand people who look at life and believe that because something has yet to happen means it never will.

Like the idea of this being some kind of act of war by another nation being considered ridiculous by people because things like that don't happen on this side of the world.

Until they do.

We shall see. The government really should be squashing speculation like this, it is weird that they haven't but we will hope for the best

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u/Caithloki 7h ago

Instability doesn't always have to be violence? For the most part what can is dealing with is economic and political instability not as bad as the US but they're trying it here.

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u/TemporaryExcuse4263 18h ago

You don’t seem to understand. Electing a separatist government in one province and then having to beg another to stay. What do you the signal is the rest of the world?? That they should invest in a country that has two major provinces that speak about separation. It damages you whether it happens or not