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Russia says relations with Canada close to 'being severed' as Ottawa seizes cargo plane (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Moscow is warning that relations with Canada are "on the verge of being severed" after the federal Liberal government moved to forfeit a massive Russian cargo plane.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Canada has a huge Ukrainian population, we're staunch allies with the US (who is firmly on Ukraine's side now that the Manchurian Candidate is out of office), and Russia is obviously the aggressor in this war. Of course we're going to side with Ukraine.

Russia's only hope was to convince the world that apathy was easier than getting involved. But they did a shit job of it