Turkish Proverb

[rumrocks]

Even though the forest was shrinking the trees kept voting for the axe as they thought it was one of them because the handle was made of wood.

Very applicable in Canada today.

[beaverdam]

Even though the forest was shrinking the trees kept voting for the axe as they thought it was one of them because the handle was made of wood.

Very applicable in Canada today.

by saying "axe", are you referring to the TURD, many, many Canadians think he's one of us, but really, he's the axe,,, and he's destroying everything in his path. As he's not really a Canadian, but rather a Globalist !

[TOM4CWB]

by saying "axe", are you referring to the TURD, many, many Canadians think he's one of us, but really, he's the axe,,, and he's destroying everything in his path. As he's not really a Canadian, but rather a Globalist !

Sadly our CDN PM follows Quebec like a zombie kitten hypnotized by their blackmailing ways and President Bidens wandering mind...

We do live in interesting times!!!

Cheers

Ukraine tension: Urgent US-Russia talks in Geneva as invasion fears grow
Published17 minutes ago

Ukraine conflict
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shake hands during bilateral talks on soaring tensions over Ukraine in Geneva, Switzerland
IMAGE SOURCE, EPA
Image caption,
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shook hands as talks proceeded at a hotel in Geneva
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met for talks in Geneva on Friday amid mounting fears that Russia could be about to invade Ukraine.
"This is a critical moment," Mr Blinken said in his opening remarks.
The US and Russia "don't expect to resolve our differences here today", he added, but hoped to test whether diplomacy was still a viable option.
Mr Lavrov said Russia was not expecting a breakthrough in the key talks.
Moscow has 100,000 troops near its borders with Ukraine, but denies planning to invade.
Across the table in a luxury Swiss hotel, Mr Blinken warned his Russian counterpart of a "united, swift and severe" response if Russia did take that step.
President Vladimir Putin has issued demands to the West which he says concern Russia's security, including that Ukraine be stopped from joining Nato.
He wants the Western defensive alliance to abandon military exercises and stop sending weapons to eastern Europe, which Moscow sees as its backyard.
The Kremlin's spokesman said Russia was not expecting a written response to those red lines on Friday. A reply is expected next week, Russian media report.
"[Our] proposals are extremely concrete and we await equally concrete answers," Mr Lavrov said as the talks got under way."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60077776

"What do the US and Russia want from these talks?
It's very possible that Mr Blinken and Mr Lavrov will emerge with differing accounts of what took place.
State Department officials have said Mr Blinken will seek to offer Mr Lavrov a "diplomatic off-ramp" to ease tensions.
Mr Blinken could offer Russia more transparency on military exercises in the region, or suggest reviving restrictions on missiles in Europe. These rules were previously set out in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a Cold War-era pact that the US scrapped in 2019, after accusing Russia of violating the deal.
Russia maintains that Ukraine is its primary focus. On Thursday it unveiled plans for naval drills involving more than 140 warships and more than 60 aircraft, seen as a show of strength."

*stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach

*one hand washes the other and together they wash the face

*Little strokes fell great oaks

*all truth is not always to be told )
Lit. the man who tells the truth is driven out of nine villages
On the other hand, some people says this expression after the proverb: ‘…ama onuncusuna muhtar olur.’ which means that ‘but in the tenth village, s/he becomes the chief’

*a friend in need is a friend indeed

*a fool with a tool is still a fool

*Although the monkey is dressed up with silk, it is still a monkey

*don’t make an oppressed person sigh, you will pay for it by and by

*the blind feast with the deaf

*you cannot move a ship with words [Action speak louder than words]

*Soft answer turneth away wrath OR you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

*ask no questions and hear no lies [Eat the g**** and do not ask where does it is come from]

*either seem as you are or be as you seem [Do not deceive people]

*better lose the saddle than the horse

*you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink

Cheers!

P.S. Reminds me of Colbert talking with Dr Fauci... complaining on a hot mike [off air] about the republican Senators office that wanted him [Dr Fauci] to disclose his yearly salary... " What, they don't have Google!!! *JC*!!!!

[hobbyfrmr]

I like your quotes of wisdom.
I carry a few, it is good to rehearse them because we forget them until they need application.

Talk does not cook rice.

Never enough time to fix it right….always enough time to fix it twice.

It all depends on how hungry you are.

Treat others as you would expect them to treat you.

The axe and Turdeau analogy is accurate. I have never seen such incomptence leading a country. This has to be on purpose. Listening to the news disgusts me but it is a necessary action. If you listen to it properly, they will tell you what the Turd and his band of clowns will do next. This gives you a chance to act in your best interests.

[TOM4CWB]

We do live in interesting times!!!


*a friend in need is a friend indeed


*you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink




Bulgaria says it decides on its defence with NATO allies

FILE PHOTO: Kiril Petkov, Bulgaria's centrist Prime Minister-designate speaks to the media
Fri, January 21, 2022, 6:51 AM
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria decides on its defence plans in coordination with its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said on Friday after Russia said its security demands included that NATO forces leave Bulgaria and Romania.

Concern is running high in the West as Russia has amassed tens of thousands of troops near Ukraine's border. Russia denies planning an attack, but says it could take unspecified military action if its security demands are not met.

It wants NATO to promise not to admit Ukraine as a member and has urged the Western military alliance to halt eastward expansion. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-wants-nato-forces-leave-romania-bulgaria-foreign-ministry-2022-01-21 NATO has rejected the demands.

"Bulgaria is a sovereign country, which has made its choice long ago by becoming a NATO member. As such, we alone decide to organise the defence of our country in coordination with our partners," Petkov told parliament.

He said the North Atlantic Treaty did not provide for a lower category of members for which collective defence should be applied selectively or to a limited extent.

Moscow has demanded legally binding guarantees that NATO will stop its expansion and return to its 1997 borders. Bulgaria, one of Moscow's closest allies during the Cold War era, joined NATO in 2004.

Russia and the United States could hold another meeting next month to discuss Moscow's demands for security guarantees, Russia's RIA news agency quoted a source in the Russian delegation as saying after talks in Geneva on Friday.

(Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; Editing by Alex Richardson and Barbara Lewis)"

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/bulgaria-says-decides-defence-nato-135112566.html

[WiltonRanch]

Good for Bulgaria. They aren’t taking any crap with NATO in their corner.

[TOM4CWB]

Good for Bulgaria. They aren’t taking any crap with NATO in their corner.

Russia Ukraine: Emergency diplomacy offers up few results

Anthony Zurcher
North America reporter
@awzurcheron Twitter
Published4 hours ago

Ukraine conflict
Blinken and Lavrov
IMAGE SOURCE, REUTERS
Image caption,
Mr Blinken met his opposite number, Sergei Lavrov - but neither expected a breakthrough
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hopped on a plane to Europe this week to do three things.
He wanted to assure Ukraine the US would support it in the face of Russian military threats; rally support among US allies for a unified, aggressive response if needed; and sit down with his Russian counterpart to find a diplomatic solution - or at least show the US was not giving up on diplomacy.

It was clearly a hastily-arranged trip.
US officials had only two days' notice to prepare a day full of meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Foreign Secretary Dmytro Kuleba, as well as with concerned staff at the US embassy.
Throughout, Mr Blinken hammered the same message: the US stood by Ukraine.
Russia had a stark choice between "diplomacy and dialogue" on one hand and "conflict and consequences" on the other, he said. By the end of that long first day, it seemed like the US was making progress.
Then President Joe Biden did a rhetorical belly-flop in the middle of the diplomatic pool overnight.

Media caption,
Joe Biden: "It is going to be a disaster for Russia if they further invade Ukraine"
During a nearly two-hour press conference, he said the US would surely argue with its allies over how to respond to a "minor incursion" by Russia into Ukraine - and that he thought it was probable that Russia would "go in" to Ukraine.
Those views left heads nodding in foreign policy circles. But when it comes to diplomacy, some truths are best left unsaid.
Quad goals
The next day, Mr Blinken was meeting US "quad" allies from Germany, the UK and France in Berlin. But he had to spend most of the day clarifying Mr Biden's comments instead of polishing the appearance of allied unity in the face of Russian intransigence.
Meanwhile, back in Ukraine, President Zelensky was firing off snarky tweets, and other government officials fretted that Mr Biden had given a "green light" to a Russian invasion.
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During a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, both diplomats talked up the strength of the yet-to-be-detailed sanctions that loomed if Russia attacked. Neither, however, seemed interested in discussing whether suspending the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany was a possibility.
Energy sanctions would hit Russia's national pocketbook the hardest, but seem unlikely. Europe relies on Russian natural gas and Mr Biden is politically sensitive to rising petrol prices in the US.
The rest of "the quad" has issues, too.
France's Emmanuel Macron seems intent on pursuing a separate diplomatic strategy with Russia's Vladimir Putin. Plane-spotters were quick to note the longer route around France and Germany that British cargo flights had to take to bring short-range anti-tank missiles to Ukraine this week.
The US and its allies were talking a good game, but the Russians had to be at least somewhat encouraged by the way the week was playing out.
Antony Blinken meets German's Annalena Baerbock
IMAGE SOURCE, EPA
Image caption,
Mr Blinken met with "quad" allies, including Germany's Annalena Baerbock
The bilateral meeting between Mr Blinken and Russia's Sergei Lavrov on Friday was a spectacle.
At the historic President Wilson hotel on the banks of a wind-swept Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Russian and American reporters jostled for position.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, in an attempt to evade the media crush, sought refuge behind a coat rack. Press Secretary Maria Zakharova complained that she couldn't have a casual conversation with reporters who kept trying to record her on their mobile phones.
Eventually Mr Lavrov and Mr Blinken made opening remarks, seated across from each other at two long sets of tables adorned with pink and green bouquets.
Mr Lavrov said he hoped for "concrete answers to our concrete proposals" - including demands that Nato will never expand to former Soviet nations like Ukraine. Mr Blinken, for his part, repeated that Russian aggression would prompt a "united, swift, and severe response" from the US and its allies.
After the meeting, both sides said little progress had been made - but little had been expected.
Mr Lavrov said Russia had no plans to invade Ukraine, despite amassing more than 100,000 troops on its borders. Mr Blinken said he stood by Nato's "open door" policy of expansion eligibility for all European nations and promised to provide a written response to Russia's "concerns" next week.
Asked if the US would consider using its military to defend Ukraine, he said America was committed to protecting its Nato allies.
But Ukraine is not a member of Nato - something Ukrainian officials are painfully aware of.
A Russian rout?
Both sides promised to keep the dialogue going and left open the possibility of a future meeting between Mr Biden and Mr Putin.
But in a way, the spectacle is already a win for Russia, regardless of how the crisis is resolved. This is a diplomatic conflict of Russia's making.
Their movements have prompted a week of furious activity on the part of the Americans and their allies at a time when the US would much rather be focusing on what it views as an era-defining competition with an ascendant China.
Instead, the high-stakes negotiations in Geneva hearken back to a time decades past: Russia is, for the moment, again the centre of global attention.
Mr Blinken suggested as much in a speech in Berlin on Thursday afternoon.
After detailing what he viewed as the long history of Russian deceit and broken promises, he said it sometimes seemed like Russia wanted to return to the days of the Cold War.
"We hope not," he said. "But if [Vladimir Putin] chooses to do so, he'll be met with the same determination, the same unity that past generations of leaders and citizens brought to bear to advance peace, to advance freedom, to advance human dignity across Europe and around the world."
Vladimir Putin
IMAGE SOURCE, EPA
Image caption,
Questions remain over what Mr Putin's next move might be
As he heads back to Washington, it's hard to say what, if anything, has changed in three days of crisis diplomacy.
Both sides are still talking, but talk without results only goes so far.
Russia could use the US's written response next week as pretext for further escalation. In Ukraine, US diplomats don't know what to expect - more cyber-warfare, a "minor incursion" or tens of thousands of Russian troops pouring into the country from three sides and paratroopers landing in Kyiv.
Anything, they say, is possible.
The US seems determined to try to keep the Russians talking until the spring rains make tank invasion impractical. As for what Russia wants, both Mr Blinken and Mr Biden have been consistent in their conclusion: it ultimately depends on what's going on in Mr Putin's head.

Well that about sums it up!!!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60088614

*Be afraid of a stupid friend, not of a smart enemy.

*It is more difficult to speak to an ignorant person than to get a camel over a ditch.[Like getting blood from a turnip.]

*Once burnt, twice shy.

*The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Cheers

[TOM4CWB]

Good god Tom, do you think anyone reads that blob of black??

*Two heads are better than one.

*The one that doesn’t come to mind, happens.

*While there’s life, there’s hope.

[sawfly1]

Well old Trump was Putins buddy, so any thing putin does should be good with most of you. So are you ready to give up.the Ukraine? Just curious. If not then what should Canada do?

[GALAXIE500]

I did something last week that I was very happy to do:

Phoned Shaw to update my programming. Told the lady on the phone that I wanted to take CBC news channel off of my programming list. She asked why ? I told her quite diplomatically that The CBC is funded by the liberal government and it is basically a communist news agency. I could tell she didn't like that , being from Ontario, however she said in reply that " quite a few people have been getting rid of cbc lately".

After I laughed at her on the phone I said that we had we had better get rid of Justin Trudeau as well.

To that she didn't have much of a response.

Have a good weekend everyone !

Galaxie 500