The Peace President and the War Machine

When Peace Becomes a Slogan and Justice a Secret

I struggle to see the logic - or the wisdom - behind what President Trump is doing right now with respect to Israel, Iran, and Ukraine.

Just as I struggle to understand why, in 2025, the U.S. government still refuses to release the names of the men who raped children on Epstein’s island - men they know, men they protect, and men we’re not allowed to talk about.

I’m not an American. I’m a Canadian.
But I’ve come to realize something:
When America betrays its own people, the fallout doesn’t stop at its borders.

Canadians didn’t vote for Trump or Biden. But we live with the consequences of American power - through its wars, its financial systems, its ideologies, and its global entanglements. And what concerns me now is that no one, on either side of the border, is getting what they voted for.

Americans who supported Trump’s “America First” and Canadians who want our own government to finally put Canadian families first - we’re all being ignored.

Instead of fixing our own countries, our governments are fueling foreign wars, meddling in other people’s conflicts, and ignoring the needs of their own citizens.

That’s why I’m writing this. Because I don’t want to be dragged into another war, another lie, or another global agenda that has nothing to do with us - and costs everything.

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Weaponizing Identity to Escape Accountability

Regarding Israel, I see two truths that need to be spoken.

First: never fall for the antisemitism trick. You know the one. It goes like this: “If you criticize Israel, you must hate Jews.” This manipulation tries to convince you that a former victim is now somehow authorized to become a victimizer, and if you question it, you’re an evil racist.

It’s a false equivalency. It’s a trap. And I’m encouraged that more people are waking up to it.

Let me be crystal clear:
People who are Jewish should never be held accountable for the actions of a government, just because the government officials are also Jewish. That’s collective guilt. That’s tribalism. That’s racism.

If a white man commits a crime in Canada, should white men in Europe be punished for it? Of course not. Yet this is exactly what the antisemitism trick aims to achieve - it reshapes the conversation from victimizer to victim. It allows war crimes to hide behind historical trauma.

It lets murder hide behind memory.

We must evaluate the actions of all governments - and all militaries - not by their ethnicity, not by their flag, not by their history, but by their actions.

Because justice - real justice - is blind.
It does not care who you are. It only asks:
Did you do right or did you do wrong?

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I Know What Murder Is

I can’t perform the mental gymnastics required to justify what the IDF is doing in Gaza. And I will not allow myself to reach a point where I try.

Because I know the difference between right and wrong.
I don’t need to be convinced that bombing non-combatants, starving children, and trapping families in rubble is somehow acceptable “because of the Holocaust.”

That’s not justice. That’s vengeance wearing a disguise.

And if anyone can stand in front of a camera and say with a straight face that this is a “just war,” I want nothing to do with the ideology they’ve swallowed.

My soul cannot survive the moment I look at a child dying under a collapsed hospital and try to justify it.

That’s the line for me.
And I will not cross it.

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Iran, Israel, and the Ghost of Iraq

When I turn my attention to Israel and Iran, I feel like I’ve been dragged back in time.

I hear echoes of Iraq.
Of WMDs that never existed.
Of lies wrapped in flags.

But this time, there wasn’t even a lie. No evidence. No photos. No intelligence dossier. Just:

“Trust us.”

Coming from Washington, that phrase terrifies me more than any missile.

If anything, I would have expected the Trump administration to go out of its way to show overwhelming proof that an assassination of Iran’s leadership was necessary. Instead, the U.S. lured them to a negotiating table and executed them.

That’s not strength. That’s not diplomacy.
That’s deception. And it brings us closer to the unthinkable:
Nuclear war.

And once again, as a Canadian, I’m supposed to stand silently on the sidelines, even though it’s my country that will be forced to pick a side if things spiral. My people who may be drawn into a global conflict we didn’t start, and don’t want.