Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Tue Mar 18 2025 09:04:00

> Trump seems to be keeping more quiet these days. I suspect he is getting
> a lot more flak than he (or the news) is letting on.

Sometime very recently, he held a meeting with Putin that ended in him
promising another kiss-up... the US removing itself from a list of
countries wanting to investigate Russia for war crimes... so he's not been
quiet enough.

> The other day it was mentioned here that we have a 'potential' order
> in to Lockheed Martin there to buy 88 F35 fighter jets, and we are
> under contract to buy the first 16, but the balance is still optional
> and the Prime Minister is talking about not buying the rest, which
> would cost L.M. $8.64 Billion. I may be wrong but I suspect that military
> contractors have a great deal of influence over the government there..

I have seen this one in the news.  Canada is on the hook for the first X
many, but can back out of the rest, costing Lockheed Martin a lot of
potential dough.  The military contractors have a lot of influence.  Since
Vietnam, and maybe before, they've got us stuck into a lot of wars and
conflicts.

> They also had the governor of Alaska on TV today basically saying that
> what's going on makes no sense at all. Our North and yours are very
> closely knit due to difficulties for both of them to get what they
> need without cooperating with each other.

There has been an unsubstantiated claim that Trump made a gaffe the other
day and reference Alaska as if it was not a state -- he supposedly talked
about making it the 52nd state after Canada.  That was on social media so
is probably a hoax.  Then again, maybe Putin has him convinced that it is
part of Russia and he needs to buy it from them (again).


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