Andrew Langdon 🏄🏾‍♂️

We buried my younger sister this year and my little brother here in 2019. Two young lives lost to addiction, overdose and intergenerational trauma passed down through generations. We’ve got a long way to go to protect everyone in the family suffering from addiction. #SafeSupply

@CTVNews @sunn_time Is military spending up…or is GDP down?

Canada officially hits NATO 2% GDP target ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…

‼️🇺🇸: US State Department just transferred $1.5 BILLION of taxpayer money as 'foreign-aid funding' to Trump's Israel/Gaza "Board of Peace" I'm so over this sh!t. 😒

@landpalestine @jvgraz She was right though about genocide being in her DNA!

German actress and supporter of Israel, Uschi Glas, hired a genealogist hoping to discover Jewish roots Only to find out that her father had been a member of the Nazi Party

White phosphorus burns at 800C/1400F on contact with Oxygen. It will burn through skin and melt your bones inside your limbs. It then sticks to you so paramedics can’t remove it. But if they manage, the chunks that were covered will reignite and melt you more

@academic_la @jvgraz Do to others as you would have them do to you! #Gaza

Israel is getting absolutely pummeled today. Friends send me pictures of hit sites that are not reported. Another Israeli was killed today in Nahariya. Delta canceled all flights until September. The entire country is stunned by the ferocity of the Iranian response.

@NoLore @NonsenseTracker No…it’s not, it’s the drugs… bur keep being you!

This is why you see so many people sleeping in parks and on public transit. Congrats everyone.

The Israeli army bombing Lebanon with white phosphorus again today, as documented by Hajj @cheib1970

The crows have circled and then left Tel Aviv. ⌛️✡️

So, European nations gathered $750M to buy US weapons for Ukraine, gave the US the money, and now Trump refuses to give them the weapons.

Belgium’s MEP Marc Botenga exposes Europe’s hypocrisy: “You sanction Russia, which attacks Ukraine — but you support the United States when it bombs Iran. You condemn Russia, which occupies Ukraine — but you support Israel occupying Palestine and Lebanon. We blame our opponents for what we allow our allies to do — cheerfully — while smiling at Tel Aviv and Washington. The double standard of this Europe is not only a shame — it creates a world of chaos and wars, a world in which we do not want to live, and in which we do not want our children to grow up. Today, this Europe is not a force for good, but an accomplice to crime. That’s enough.”

Trump is going completely off the rails. Now he's claiming Iran wants him to be its supreme leader. Iran offered me the chance to be their supreme leader, but I said I didn't want it - Trump.

@jurgen_nauditt 😂🤣😂

Israel and the US are scattering mines in Iran. These are air-delivered anti-tank mines being shot into places where there would be no tanks. These 5 were found in a small town outside Shiraz.

🚨HOLY SHIT !!!!! Israeli politician Yitzik Kroizer says killing Palestinian children is normal if it supports the IDF mission. He adds there are no innocent children in the West Bank. Repost this. Please I beg you

The Erosion of American Military Capacity Why the US shows limited capacity in prolonged wars and in protecting its bases and allies, sending signals that should draw attention from Asian countries. Benjamin Netanyahu did not only err in assessing Iranian capabilities; he also overestimated the American capacity to sustain him in a high-intensity conflict. Despite spending nearly US$ 1 trillion on defense, the United States today possesses an industrial and logistical base that is significantly inferior to what it had decades ago. This fragility is the result of a long process of atrophy of the defense industrial base, which began after the end of the Cold War. In the 1990s, the Pentagon had 51 major prime contractors competing for significant contracts. Today, only five giants remain: Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon), General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing. This extreme consolidation, nicknamed “The Last Supper,” drastically reduced competition and the capacity for large-scale production, sharply driving up prices. It is the typical model of the Western defense industry that grows through mergers, acquisitions, and market contraction rather than through productive efficiency. The numbers by segment are alarming. In the military aircraft sector, the number of suppliers fell from 8 in 1990 to just 3. In tactical missiles, around 90% of current production depends on only three sources. In the case of ground combat vehicles, there were 3 manufacturers in 1990; by 2020, only one remained: General Dynamics. The specialized workforce has also shrunk: the defense sector has lost nearly 2 million skilled workers since 1985, falling from about 3 million to approximately 1.1 million. Ammunition production reveals the same loss of “mass.” During the Cold War, American factories could produce up to 438,000 artillery shells per month under full wartime conditions. Before the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, monthly production was only 14,400. Even after billions of dollars in investments, between 2024 and 2026 the capacity rose to something between 40,000 and 55,000 shells per month, still far from the target of 100,000. The naval decline is equally worrying. In 1991, the US maintained 8 public naval shipyards; today only 4 remain (Portsmouth, Norfolk, Puget Sound, and Pearl Harbor), dedicated almost exclusively to maintenance and repairs, and not to new construction. Private shipyards capable of building large ocean-going ships have decreased by more than 80% since the 1950s. Currently, the construction of large combat ships is concentrated in only seven main shipyards, controlled by a few companies. Read the full article: open.substack.com/pub/global21/p…

From outset of this war, U.S. soldiers fled military bases in GCC to hide in hotels and offices. They use GCC citizens as human shield. Hotels in U.S. deny bookings to officers who may endanger customers. GCC hotels should do same.

@nytimes @PoliticsFan2005 The reality though is Canada doesn’t have many enemies. We are generally well liked and respected around the globe…unlike our southern neighbours, who are constantly meddling and getting into conflicts of choice!

Breaking News: Canada met its NATO military spending target for the first time in decades, spending 2% of its gross domestic product last year on its military, amid tensions with the U.S. nyti.ms/47XE5SR

@SkyNews Witkoff lies…they all lie!

Iran told the U.S. it had enough uranium to make "11 atomic bombs", Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff claims. trib.al/AD5ikTm 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

@atrupar …but you created “this”!

Trump: "The amazing thing is we don't need the Hormuz Strait. We don't need it. We don't need it at all. We have so much oil. Our country is not affected by this."

BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 The New York Times has confirmed that most of the 13 US bases in the Middle East have been destroyed and empty. Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage, according to the NYT.