For months, I’ve been calling for decisive action to improve our defence capabilities and disentangle Canada from the U.S. It seems—finally—our leadership has realized this too. We may reach a point where the West makes a clear break with Trump and his regime in Washington, but we’re not there yet. Europe (along with Canada and the UK) will try almost anything to prevent such a break. I just hope it doesn’t come at the cost of our sovereignty and honour.I dare to believe that already the clear break is happening.
Europe is seeking to lead peace negotiations in the Russian- Ukrainian War-
— Thomas (@Thomas984634784) March 9, 2025
The West is at a “crossroads in history,” Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer told European leaders at a pivotal summit in London, as the continent sought to wrestle control of negotiations over the… pic.twitter.com/Bl5jvkFS7v
Tuesday of this week was particularly busy too. First there was a large NATO summit in France to discuss Ukraine - the United States was NOT invited:
You don't invite the enemy to a summit to deal with the enemy . #Cdnpoli #Uspoli
— Pat (@pat112.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Here in Canada, Carney was already meeting with our security agencies and military leaders on Tuesday:๐ซ๐ท๐ฌ๐ง๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ง๐ช๐ง๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐พ๐ญ๐ท๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ช๐ธ
— ๐๐ง๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ | ๐ช๐บ๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ (@tweet4Anna_NAFO) March 11, 2025
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Emmanuel Macron hosts the chiefs of staff of 34 allied nations.
Notable presence: the UK, South Africa, Australia, Canada & Turkey.
๐ซ ๐บ๐ธ US not invited.
➡️ support for Ukraine & European defense. pic.twitter.com/KycfqvzJqT
Prime minister-designate Mark Carney is spending part of his second day as Liberal leader meeting with the heads of Canada’s national security agencies, CTV News has learned.According to a source close to Carney, he is receiving national security briefings days ahead of his anticipated swearing-in as prime minister of Canada.Posts on social media show Carney also had meetings in the Ottawa area with Canada’s ambassador to the United States Kirsten Hillman, the fentanyl czar Kevin Brosseau and the Chief of the Defence Staff, General Jennie Carignan.
Next, just an hour later...‼️ Ukraine is ready to accept the US proposal for an immediate 30‑day ceasefire—if Russia agrees and acts simultaneously. The US immediately lifts its pause on intelligence sharing and resumes security assistance to Ukraine. www.president.gov.ua/en/news/spil...
— Maria Avdeeva (@mariainkharkiv.bsky.social) March 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The ceasefire ended before it even began. Expecting anything else from russia would have been naive.
— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) March 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Oh well....Russia, Ukraine stepping up attacks on each other https://www.byteseu.com/820416/ Russia and Ukraine have stepped up attacks against one another. In recent moves, Russia conducted a major offensive in the western Russian region of Kursk, and Ukraine launched massive drone attacks on Russian …
— BYTESEU (@byteseu.bsky.social) March 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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And in other news:Ceasefires are not peace, nor are they binding. Putin knows this all too well. He has violated every one of them.
— Steven Seegel (@stevenseegel.bsky.social) March 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Britain urged to form breakaway 'Four Eyes' alliance without US after Trump's 'unprecedented' decision to block intelligence sharing with Ukraine
— Olga Lautman ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ (@OlgaNYC1211) March 10, 2025
British defence sources do not want U.S. to have access to intel. This is what @GOP Trump have done https://t.co/4tTgH4adoE
Dear MAGA,
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ (@AdamKinzinger) March 1, 2025
If you think making Canada, the UK, and Australia, and New Zealand hate us is “tough guy politics” you’re going to regret that.
I can’t tell you how many attacks on US soil have been stopped by their intel agencies picking up on it.
Now they hate us
@mercoglianos Irving Shipbuilding awarded a contract to build the first 3 Type 26/River Class destroyers for the Royal Canadian Navy https://t.co/f5nbwQ9kCM maybe with the other orders the ships have go with https://t.co/0fd9oJKXpV
— Mark Philip Rennie (@ESlibrarian) March 9, 2025
And from South KoreaHere Canadian warships were keeping an eye on Chinese ships off Alaska. Canada was protecting the US.https://t.co/jLbzxihvPQ
— Till Eulenspiegel (@Titor2035) March 9, 2025
❗️๐ฐ๐ทSouth Korea is offering ๐จ๐ฆCanada its weapons instead of ๐บ๐ธAmerican ones, indicating that the Asian country can not only quickly supply defense systems, but is also a reliable ally that can be trusted. pic.twitter.com/M93dCrhR2O
— ๐ชMilitaryNewsUA๐บ๐ฆ (@front_ukrainian) March 11, 2025
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Our family has been talking about what we might do or even could do, if the situation really deteriorated. Tonight I found this manual from Sweden, so I'm including the link here:Roshel's main factory is in Brampton.
— Mid-Career Army Officer (@MidOfficer) March 11, 2025
The base F-550 chassis could be produced at Ford's Oakville plant, with the V8 engines produced in Windsor.
For the sake of our economy, and our national security, it's time to 'press print' and mechanize our 18,000 Army Reserve soldiers. https://t.co/SlWLs885q3
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Let us then address ourselves to our task, not in any way underrating its tremendous difficulties and perils, but in good heart and sober confidence, resolved that, whatever the cost, whatever the suffering, we shall stand by one another, true and faithful comrades, and do our duty, God helping us, to the end.
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Fake news or are 3 out of 20 of 18 to 54 enlisting in MAGA? or hang back to be subversive? and the older elite don't care what flag they remain rich under either.
Liked the romance of the Churchill clip. Now factor in "lil pp and the anti canadian opposition in that same chamber.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/large-majority-of-canadians-reject-trumps-annexation-overtures-poll-suggests/
"The poll sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from Feb. 28 to March 2. Because the poll was conducted online, it can’t be assigned a margin of error.
Men were more open to the idea of becoming U.S. citizens, at 17 per cent, compared with seven per cent of women. Respondents over the age of 55 were least likely to want a U.S. citizenship, at six per cent, compared with 17 per cent of those between 18 and 34 years old and 16 per cent of respondents between 35 and 54.
Conservative respondents were much more interested in becoming American citizens (21 per cent) than Liberal and NDP respondents (5 per cent each)."
The real horror for me is the idea that donkey donny has no depth of comprehension, none, and a conclave of sycophants saying "Oh Ya" to his every fantasy so he has no reason to develop understanding. It's a plan.
The "uber intelligent" tech buzzards circle his office waiting to feast on the pieces. Wars on any level always enrich the few.
It is a disaster. I hope Canada makes changes. And doesn't elect PP.
I'm off X, sho thanks for sharing this.
A lot of this military stuff is kind of stupid. We are staring an old reality in the face that we have long ignored: The only real military threat to Canada is the United States. So, if the US attacks, what are we going to do with shiny expensive new destroyers? They'll just die, nobody except maybe China on its own turf can challenge the US navy. We are also not going to line up our armoured vehicles to defend a front line against the US army.
What we need is the means for a seriously turbo-charged insurgency warfare. So for instance we need drones, lots of drones. We need explosive devices to put in roads or blow up pipelines etc. south of the border. We need infantry gear of various kinds. We need human-portable antiaircraft missiles--those won't work against the serious high altitude planes, but they'll be great against attack helicopters. We need to establish lots of little hidden supply dumps and safe houses, both in urban and wilderness settings. All that kind of stuff.
The good news is, all that stuff is probably a lot cheaper than destroyers and armoured vehicles.
Yes, lungta, Trump is a profoundly stupid man but also dangerous I think - I still think we should just give him millions plus two golf courses and see if that satisfied him (yes, I'm joking, I think...)
Glad to hear you can still read the X posts, Jen - I am never sure whether I should post these or not these days, but there is still some stuff there that I cannot find elsewhere.
And some good comments, PLG - I agree with you about the kind of equipment Canada should be getting, though I am still horrified that this might actually be necessary. Its a worthwhile investment anyway, I think, because even if Trump is gone in 2028 (and I'm not sure he will be) America could well elect another guy just as nutty but maybe smarter.
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