Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre issued a joint statement during NATO's Exercise Cold Response in Bardufoss, Norway.

The leaders argued that easing restrictions undermines Western efforts to pressure Russia into negotiations and to end the war in Ukraine.

"Canada's position is to maintain sanctions on Russia … including on the shadow fleet, which is moving this oil," Carney said at a press conference. Threats to European security

The Canadian prime minister emphasized that cooperation between Russia and Iran poses a direct threat to European security. He added that such interactions come at a high cost to the Ukrainian people, meaning pressure on Russia must only increase.

Carney noted that Canada, together with European partners, will continue acting within the Coalition of the Willing to counter Russian energy revenues that finance the war.

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I too am joining Canada in criticizing the USA.

What the fuck.

[–] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, and @prettybunnys@piefed.social issued a joint statement..."

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It was important I added credibility to their statement

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

Is the US the only one able to sanction countries?

Why does everyone else still not maintain sanctions and then sanction the US as well for trading with a sanctioned Russia?

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No shit they should be criticized. The U.S. is just being played into the hands of Russia. America is a pathetic level of stupid.

[–] Sepia@mander.xyz 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get your point and fully agree. But I have just a nitpick in that everything Trump, Putin, or Xi (and many other 'world leaders') do isn't for their countries or even their peoples but rather for their personal gains, political power, and money. It's not so much about the US, Russia, China but rather about individual politicians' interests and their total indifference toward their countries and the people imho.

[–] Threeskittiesinatrenchcoat@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I agree with this sentiment, governments do not represent the citizens but the capital of those nations. Which often times devolves to simply, what can you do for me?

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

Is it playing into the hands of Russia it was not unintended but very very intentional

[+] mrdown@lemmy.world -13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Carney the bullshitter manufactured consent for the war on Iran and now he is mad about the consequences. He is still blaming Iran for thr war lol he is a total joke. I sm expecting Carney worshippers here getting mad at me again

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds to me like you might be a bit biased. Just slow down for a second and think this through. The best Canadians are suspicious of all political parties, even their own, and the world is much bigger than Canada.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world -1 points 14 hours ago

When they talked about him in media as a candidate to replace Trudeau he gave me a good impression and was supportive of him winning. He quickly proved to me that he doesn't stand for almost all what he claim to be

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When did he manufacture consent? Be specific. He's only given his own comments on it (which I disagree with).

When did he say he's mad about the consequences of the war? Be specific. He's only criticized the US choice to remove restrictions on Russia.

I don't like Carney. He's a weasel banker who can't be trusted but you're still getting a downvote from me.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

When did he manufacture consent? Be specific. He’s only given his own comments on it (which I disagree with).

Repeating the lie about Iran seeking a nuclear weapon is manufacturing consent . Iran do not pose a security threat to Europe either. Even in Ukraine it is no longer the case since russia got the shaheed tech and now they improved the tech and are building their own drones .

When did he say he’s mad about the consequences of the war?

The USA easing up the sanctions on Iran is a consequence of the war started by the usa and israel and which carney blamed on Iran

Canada sanctions on Iran started in 1980, there is no legitimate reason why they should have done it expect to follows blindly the united states foreign policies since no Canadians was took hostages during that crisis. It is not too late for Europe and Canada to have genuine diplomatic talks to push Iran away of Russia rather than closer . Don't you see how ridiculous that

[–] Sepia@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@mrdown@lemmy.world

Iran do not pose a security threat to Europe either. Even in Ukraine it is no longer the case.

Your comment amounts to nothing but autocratic propaganda as it is outright false. Even Chinese state media is citing Iran, saying Ukraine is a 'legitimate target,' and the Chinese government is supporting the Iranian regime as we know. They are explicitly threatening Ukraine.

That aside, Iran already provided weapons to Russia as you say yourself, and it has thus been posing a significant threat to Ukraine and Europe.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Iran is an autocratic regime so try harder to portray me as a autocratic propagandist . If you are so anti autocratic country to the point of justifying wars against them when will you post about Saudi Arabia human right abuses that are very similar to the Iranian regime ones? If China become an ally of the west and still an autocratic country you will stop posting about China.

Iran only real enemies is the united states who want to steal it's resources and the terrorist state of Israel who want to genocide them . The day the west stop sucking israel and the united states dicks and try to renormalize relations with Iran in exchange of moving away from Russia and Iran refuse. I will say yes Iran should not target any European country.

You can't support this war of agression on Iran if you are really anti russia because this war is helping Russia not Ukraine

https://kyivindependent.com/over-800-patriot-missiles-used-in-middle-east-in-3-days-more-than-ukraine-since-2022-zelensky-says/

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/11/iran-war-ukraine-air-defenses-00823935

https://www.iranwatch.org/library/government/ukraine/ministry-foreign-affairs/ukraine-joins-un-security-council-sanctions-against-iran before Iran was an ally of Russia

[–] Sepia@mander.xyz 0 points 23 hours ago

@mrdown@lemmy.world

I don't think you read my comment.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah the sockpuppet can only operate on boolean logic and when something doesn't neatly fit, like the US-Israel war on Iran which obviously helps Russia, it twists into a pretzel and starts throwing exceptions.