Letters: Trump? Putin? What’s the difference in their end goals?

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging a military war against Ukraine to subjugate its people and gain its natural resources. Trump is waging an economic war against Canada in order to subjugate Canadians and gain Canada’s natural resources, including its water.

Is there any difference between Putin and Trump? In their own ways, they are both act as dictators. Putin holds power through military force, while Trump holds power through election. And there are no brakes on his power because Republicans control both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

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As well, Trump has Elon Musk with him. Neither appears to have any moral conscience and operate as they do because they have almost unlimited power and nothing to restrain them. One is reminded of Lord John Actons’s dictum: “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Ironically, the citizens of the United States are already suffering from the thousands upon thousands of longstanding jobs Trump and Musk have already eliminated. Also, America’s commitment to help address the inequities in the world are going by the board.

Welcome to the new world order; Trump is just getting started. God help us.

Allan Kroitor,  Regina

Gaza must be restored

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced U.S. plans to “take” and “hold” Gaza, while forcibly removing its civilian population in blatant violation of international law.

The ceasefire agreement and prisoner exchange in Gaza was a notable achievement because it ended 15 months of what the International Court of Justice suggested could be a plausible allegation of an Israeli genocide of the Palestinians living in Gaza.

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Negotiations over the implementation of the ceasefire agreement should be allowed to proceed without U.S. threats of intervention.

It should be welcomed that several ministers of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government have publicly countered Trump’s outrageous threats to annex the coastal enclave and to ethnically cleanse the Gazans. Trump has no right to annex Palestine as he has no right to annex Canada.

We demand that Canada do more: immediately recognize the Palestinian state; impose a robust arms embargo on Canada’s two-way arms trade with Israel; expedite the family reunification program for Gazans with family in Canada; restore the provision of aid to Gazans through UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency); prohibit Canadians from serving in the Israeli Defence Force; investigate Canadians in the IDF for war crimes; remove the charitable status of all organizations in Canada who raise funds for entities in Israel which supported the Israeli Defence Force; and help rebuild Gaza.

The U.S., although arming the Israeli genocide in Gaza, were wrongfully allowed to manage the peace process.

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Ed Lehman Regina
(Lehman writes on behalf of the Regina Peace Council.)

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