On this week’s edition of “The West Block,” host Mercedes Stephenson covers all the angles of the war in Europe.
Mercedes interviews Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly about what more could be done to punish Russia in response to President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Plus, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations Bob Rae speaks about Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine.
And Mercedes also speaks with former senior director for European affairs in the Obama administration, Charles Kupchan, about what Putin’s endgame is. Why did he decide to initiate a full-scale invasion of Ukraine? And is there a risk of nuclear weapons being deployed?
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Joly cannot even commit to end half a billion canadian dollars of oil purchased each year, Instead she feels that the entertainment sector will win the day. Weak, weak, weak. She then encourages unarmed people to protest in the streets. What?
Good News is that Eye Love you '-Mercedes & Canadians. Putin is not fkn around with us in the West. He told us straight & direct not to interfere with his military operation. Was hoping for peace albeit always stated not to underestimate Putin and his brand of nationalist authoritarianism via witch he Rules Russia. 2 days ago the biggest War of my generation ( LGBTQ Millennial ))) just started. What say ye ? What do we do ? My friend said in a grim rather dark tone : well, keep paying athletes millions, rappers millions, actors millions and the rest of North America divided, in debt, living from paycheck. to paycheck …and then proceeded to rap somethings witch would rather not write due to being *( Age Restricted Matters) and finished how do you like that version of Freedom & Democracy….did reply that he had a rather cynical, pessimistic, negative and rather dark vision of North America *( and the West ) in the past years and today…. think he just needs a hug, a kiss, a massage and some love…what do you think ? PS: He also added something interesting to note of a more discerning intellectual manner ! He stated that Putin's nationalistic authoritarian ideology is very reactionary to the West's Liberal Politics of Pro-LGBTQ, Multiculturalism, Feminist and pop-culture ideology witch he views as having weakened the West and is morally degenerate…. claims that by analysis of Putin's own speeches and discourses that is a major part of his social, cultural, political and psychological ideological views and tendencies….. HAD to and WILL meditate on that….if even half of that is true….then we gotta go back to my first statement in summary : Putin is not fkn around with us in the West.
Probably not a good idea to call somebody names who could push a button and turn your country into a nuclear waste land in under ten minutes. Just saying.
Don’t be angry at the Russian people. Putin is insane. He kills his own people that disagree with him. True psychopath
You’re god rimmed me yesterday. Intense!!!!
That’s right, avoid the question . CBC is a joke, our government is a joke. We’ll be invaded by US , in the not to distant future. For water mainly. So they can water golf courses in the middle of a desert
God bless Ukraine! God bless our human lives! Be strong Ukraine ! 🙏🇨🇦❤️🇺🇦🇺🇸✊
Too much bite into two faced politicians. Looks like another CNN. Justs spits out to the public what the political agenda demands. Canada attacks and impressions their own people. Even stealing their money from bank accounts. Now they want to look like hero's. Bait-switch!
I hate these reporters. During tense talks they trying to force yes no answers.
I hope you all understand this is a “war game”. But we the “ useless eaters” are the ones that will only suffer. Stay strong, folks of the world 🌎 💪
Why did she have to give a roundabout answer to each question like dude just answer it simply
While such contract street killings were commonplace in Moscow in the 1990s, the violence had dwindled under Mr. Putin, making the killing of Mr. Boris Nemtsov (on February 27, 2015) all the more shocking. He is by far the most prominent public figure to die in such a fashion, though just one in a string of murders of opponents of Mr. Putin, most notoriously the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the human rights researcher Natalia Estemirova and the security service defector Aleksandr V. Litvinenko. And while low-level criminals have been detained in some cases, the investigations in Russia never talked back to those who ordered the murders.
Россияне и Беларусы не сидите дома, а едьте или идите пешком на границы РФ, Беларусии с Украиной и останавлевайте свои танки и технику !!!!!!!! Слава Україні!!!
The way you lamestream media types are portraying Ukraine one would think they are perfect. Instead of being an actual dictatorship and kept in power by Biden, the most corrupt President ever. The fact is that Russia is going to take the Ukraine and no one cares, nor should they. I'm also very surprised that you guys aren't making more of the fact that there are REAL NAZIS fighting for the Ukraine right now and we all know how much you lefties hate nazis. You can find videos of 20k supporters at some of their rallies. Of course, research and facts I know are pesky things that often get in the way of your activism, I mean, journalism.
Nato not doing enough to protect these people
Shameful and sad
First off Russia started it
We must resurrect the Lend-Lease program., To supply the Ukraine everything it needs to defend itself. This was done during the second world war between the United States and great Britain.
This is funny how the Ukraine citizens flee to Russia "the aggressor" and start demanding their rights. For example: In restaurants they say "You destroyed our home, now give us free food.", Not even politely but in this demanding aggressive kind of way.
And out of all the countries that they flee to, they mainly choose Russia. Like what's the logic behind this? None.
Plus, Ukraine actually doesn't exist as a country. When it left the Soviet Union, it forgot to declare their borders, therefore it doesn't even exist. Plus Crimea and the rest of the territory mostly belongs to Russia in the first place…
The word "Ukraine" Ukraina came from the old Russian word *Okraina*, meaning the edge. The territories that are now called "Ukraine", were actually Russia's territories in the first place.
By the way, if you use critical thinking and look at all the photos of "Russian attack" (before the official start of the war) you can clearly see that it just doesn't make sense when it comes to laws of physics. For example, there are photographs of how some new Russian rocket attacked a child care (to fully understand what I'm saying, you can google the photo if it's still there). Yet for some reason, all the windows are in place, (if it was a real rocket, then due to pressure the windows would've been blown out completely), the 4 layered brick wall had completely no trace of smolder or fire, AND the "new Russian rocket" wasn't found. Hope whatever I said makes sense…
Молчат прекращать ,! Россия народ добрый и честный народ ненадо против России всякий вещей говорит и делать это большая ошибки будет набород помогайте друг друга потом Всё нормально будет мир мир мир.
Trudeau is a CRIMINAL and NEEDS ARRESTED! TRUDEAU IS A CIA PAID PAWN PUT IN PLACE THROUGH CRIMES BY CIA! ELECTIONS WERE NOT LEGAL IT IS PROVABLE! ALSO DUE TO CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE BIDEN IS HAVING PUTIN THE CIA PAID PAWN TRY TO DRAW TROOPS OVER TO EUROPE TO KILL TO STOP CANADA FROM BEING UNITED UNDER LEGAL CHALLENGE PUTIN IS IN COLLUSION WITH BIDEN AND CIA OVER WHAT WAS DONE AS IS TRUDEAU THE CRIMINAL WHO NEED PROSECUTED!
MELANIE JOLLIE IS CRIMINAL THEY HAD OBLIGATION TO CALL CONSCRIPTION DURING PANDEMIC AND FAILED THEY MPS HAVE TO BE PROSECUTED NOW AND FOR ATTACK KIDNAP RAPES ASSAULT BODILY HARM TERRORIZATION AGAINST CITIZENS WHO FILED CHARGE AGAINST GOVERNMENT THEY MPS ARE HIGH TREASONOUS THEY ARE CIA PAID PAWNS ! EVIL IS WHAT THEY ARE! GOD CONDEMN THEM UNTIL THEY ARE REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH LAW ABIDING CITIZENS .
TRUDEAUS GOVERNMENT IS COMMITTING MURDERS TORTURE ASSAULT BODILY HARMS BREAK AND ENTER LIKE NAZI GESTOPPOS AND THEFTS BODILY HARM AND THEY STEAL EVIDENCE IN COURT CASES TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE TRUDEAU AND PREMIERS ARE TERRORISTS ATTORNEY GENERALS FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL PROVIDE NO JUSTICE AND THEY ESCALATED TO TORTURE AND MURDERS TO SILENCE VICTIMS AND THEY KILLED! THEY COVER UP RAPES AND ARE MURDERING KIDNAPPING PEOPLE WHO FILED CHARGES AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT THEY ATTACK THEIR ADVOCATES AND OBSTRUCTION THROUGGH COURTS PGT LSO AND COURTS ARE CRIMINAL ILLEGAL HIGH TREASONOUS ACTS AND ARE PARTICIPATION IN MURDERS TORTURE AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS THEY ARE MORE CRIMINAL THAN PUTIN IS!
Something must be done. We must get rid of Trudeau one way or another.
jfk shot first
The logic of war is that the enemy opens up a battlefield in your country, and you have to bring the battlefield back to the enemy's country. The enemy bombs your nation's capital, and you bomb the enemy's capital. The enemy blows up the infrastructure of your country, and you also blow up the infrastructure of the enemy country. It is extremely stupid to fight the enemy only in one's own country!
戰爭的邏輯是敵人在你的國土開闢戰場,你也要將戰埸帶回敵人的國土。敵人轟炸你的國家首都,你也要轟炸敵人的首都。敵人炸毀你們國家的基建,你也要炸毀敵人國家的基建。祗在自己國土迎戰敵人是極之愚蠢的!
The nationalists started a revolution in 2014. They killed a 100 people right on the street and this is why president of Ukraine ran away. They made a civil war against their people. 15,000 got killed in Donbass and Lugansk during 8 years of the civil war. They banned the Russian language and burned books. Neo-fascist monuments to Bandera and Shukhevych stand in the center of Kyiv and that's the guys that were with the Adolf Hitler during WW2. They have been walking with a swastika on the streets of Ukraine for 8 years and Neo Nationalist party of Poroshenko and Zelensky supported all this. Google it if you dont believe me, this is what U.S were supporting in Ukraine against the Russians and a normal people of Ukraine. They never were showing you all of this while i was watching Ukranian news and what was going on there. WHY YOU THINK RUSSIANS WENT IN? ASK YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, why didn't the world sanction Oil Rich Azerbaijan, and NATO Turkey, after they did this kind of thing to Armenia, back in 2020? I mean: Azerbaijan & Turkey still doing genocide against Armenia, but no sanctions, anywhere! I guess small, landlocked, poor countries attacked by NATO are invisible.
Америка – настоящая террористическая нация. Америка Причина разрушения мира во всем мире. Америка убивает украинский народ. Америка предала Палестину. Америка уничтожает Ирак. Зеленский — жестокий пес из США. Америка – страна предатель. Люди всего мира надеются, что Америка будет уничтожена ядерной бомбой. Эй, Россия, Китай, Иран, Северная Корея, Швеция, мы все поддерживаем тебя! Идите к черту Америку и НАТО…!!!
who is the fascist …
Vladimir Putin is the aggressor. The Ukrainians are the victims. We should never shy away from that.