Frank Woodard

@MarioNawfal I believe the USA will survive, adjust and prosper. We always do.

🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺 Putin just landed in China and the number one agenda item isn't trade. It's the new security architecture for the Persian Gulf. Fmr. CIA Analyst Larry Johnson explains that Russia, China, and Pakistan are working in concert to pull Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, and the UAE away from the U.S. and into a new security bloc anchored by Turkey, Saudi, and Iran. Meanwhile China is at its lowest U.S. Treasury holding since pre-2008, Japan is dumping, and more countries are settling oil in yuan instead of dollars. The two pillars of U.S. global hegemony are cracking at the same time. @newsonof @karen4the6th

@JohnBouras3230 I very much support your decision.

@FWOOD000 Neat that was then not now! America has neglected to uphold its contracts and commitments. But we don't care what America does we will do our own thing yes?

NORAD should be Canada’s backstop, not our entire defence strategy. Cooperation with the U.S. is useful, but dependence is dangerous. Canada needs its own Arctic surveillance, its own northern mobility, its own defence industry, and deeper ties with Europe. Sovereignty means having options. We Canadians and Europeans must fight to strengthen our sovereignty together sovereignty never comes without a fight! youtu.be/woEmxIYOnCc?si…

@MateuszKaczysk9 @Microinteracti1 Who says we want it. Changes are enviable.

@FWOOD000 @Microinteracti1 Your choice ;) We'll manage without you, but you won't maintain global domination without us ;)

Pentagon Staff Left in the Dark as Hegseth Pulls the Plug on Poland Deployment Pete Hegseth cancelled 4,000 troops to Poland last week. Nobody at the Pentagon knew it was coming. No explanation has been offered. At this point, the absence of an explanation is itself the explanation. The most expensive rounding error in history The cost of rotating a few thousand soldiers through Poland for nine months is, in Pentagon terms, statistical noise. It disappears into the budget without a trace. European nations buy American weapons because they trust America as a partner. That is the entire business model. Not specs. Not price. Partnership. The moment that trust breaks, the contracts go elsewhere. Not some of them. All of them. Forever. Europe just opened its wallet. America just lost the contract. For years, the United States pressured European allies to spend more on defense. For years, European governments resisted, citing budget constraints and the comfortable assumption that America would always be there. Washington complained. Brussels shrugged. The two percent target became a running joke. Then Trump told Europe he could not be trusted. And Europe believed him. The result is the largest sustained defense spending surge on the continent since the Cold War. This is not an opinion. It is the official assessment of NATO headquarters itself. Member states are no longer nudging toward two percent. They are legislating emergency procurement packages, fast-tracking capability programs, and signing multi-decade platform commitments at a pace that would have been politically unthinkable three years ago. Several trillion dollars in contracts over the next fifty years. Fighter jets, air defense systems, armored platforms, missile defense networks, logistics infrastructure, sustainment agreements that generate revenue long after the hardware is delivered. The European defense market is not opening. It has already opened. The money is real, the budgets are passed, and the contracts are being written right now. The question, the only question that matters to Lockheed, Raytheon, and every other prime contractor, is who fills them. And the answer, increasingly, is not American companies. The buyers in Warsaw, Helsinki, Stockholm, and Berlin are now deliberately designing their procurement strategies around one central requirement: do not depend on Washington. European defense industrial initiatives that were fringe proposals two years ago are now funded national priorities. The Franco-German platform investments are not speculative anymore. They are in production. America spent eighty years building the access that makes this market captive. Trump has spent just over a year handing it to Europe's own industry, one snub at a time. Where are the thousand CEOs? Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics. These are not timid companies. They have spent decades shaping American foreign policy more effectively than any diplomatic corps ever managed. Their lobbyists have direct lines to every committee chairman on Capitol Hill. And right now they are watching in complete silence as the president saws off the branch the entire industry sits on. The short-term calculus of that silence is understandable. Iran has accelerated domestic procurement. Quarterly numbers look fine. Nobody wants to be the CEO who publicly challenges a president with a well-documented appetite for revenge. But an F-35 sale is not a quarterly transaction. It is a fifty-year revenue commitment. A European nation that anchors its next-generation defense around a domestic platform in the next five years is not a customer you win back with a better offer. Ever. These decisions, once made, are permanent on any timescale that matters to anyone currently alive. Every strategy team in every glass tower in Arlington knows exactly what is happening to their order books for the 2040s and 2050s. And they are saying nothing. History will find this astonishing. An administration is converting the world's most powerful arms exporter into a supplier its own allies no longer trust, and the thousand most powerful industrial voices in America have chosen silence. The only president who benefits from this is in Moscow No sitting American president has done this kind of structural damage to the US defense industry's global position since John F. Kennedy. Trump is dismantling the same architecture. Not out of principle. Not out of strategy. Apparently out of irritation at European press conferences. The difference is that Kennedy was trying to reduce American military overreach. What is happening now serves no coherent American interest whatsoever. Every troop withdrawal, every cancelled rotation, every deployment weaponized as political punishment lands in Moscow as a strategic gift requiring no effort and no cost on Russia's part. Putin has spent twenty years trying to fracture NATO and reduce American influence on his western border. He has failed repeatedly. He is now watching an American president do the job for him, apparently for free. A senior NATO source offered reassurance that Canada and Germany are increasing their eastern flank presence. It was the kind of statement you make when the alternative is saying what you actually think.

@ClintonDesveaux The world does not need nuclear weapons.

The US can’t on the one hand demand we do a better job at defence, and on the other hand demand we don’t have the ultimate protection. Which one is it?

@TheIranWatcher @NYCREMilton And destroying everybody else’s low earth orbit stuff.

🚨 Iran’s regime is now openly discussing destroying American satellites — including Starlink — by detonating explosions in Low Earth Orbit. On state TV, a regime “expert” proposed creating massive orbital debris fields to cripple U.S. and Israeli systems. This is space terrorism. A reckless act that could trigger Kessler syndrome and damage global satellites, GPS, communications, internet infrastructure, aviation, and economies worldwide. This is the same regime that: ⚪️ Arms proxies like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis to attack civilians and international shipping ⚪️ Threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz and contaminate the Persian Gulf ⚪️ Arrests Iranians for possessing Starlink terminals while jamming communications ⚪️ Uses internet blackouts and communication suppression to hide executions, crackdowns, and state violence They cannot provide freedom, prosperity, or stability for their own people, so they export chaos and intimidation instead. This is not a normal government. It is a destabilizing and terroristic regime that threatens both Iranians and the wider world.

@robertlavigne Your PM and 76% of the Canadian population want nothing to do with the USA-nothing. What seems to be the problem? You guys won- rejoice!

So ... in a matter of 96 hrs ..Trump's USA withdraws support from Poland, Germany, Taiwan, and ends an 80 + year defence pact with Canada I wonder who in the Trump White House is telling the presidents of the "Military Industrial Complex",.."the party is over"

@AilemaMM @USWPColby 76% per polls say Canadians support your PM . They are in a love fest with China for trade and the EU for everything else. That is Canada’s future.

@USWPColby There's no way you dont know how infiltrated and corrupt our government is, all the way up to the crown. They will not agree, and as usual we the people will suffer for refusing to turn on you. Canadians are at a breaking point.

A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments. DoW is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense. 1/3

@BobLewis_COLO @USWPColby Europe wants us out and so do the American people. Let’s go for it.

@USWPColby Rethink. NATO.

@pfeiffer_jim @USWPColby Like Canada’s decoupling from the USA, both will survive, adjust and prosper. But is this whole hate thing, Canada did draw first blood.

@USWPColby Reading some of the replies is both hilarious and frightening at the same time. There appear to be many Canadians who don't realize just how much their standards of living have depended on the USA simply existing. When did they become so arrogant 🤔

@BillBandy5 @thatSTEVE @USWPColby Combat patrols in Europe only. I could be wrong but as of now no combat engagement. Let me know if I am wrong. Also Israel’s use of the F35 in combat has been stellar.

@thatSTEVE @USWPColby Have you been following what the F35s have been doing to the other dudes defense systems, you know allowing the US to get Maduro in less than a couple of hours, and shreading Irans military in less than a month? Out of curiosity what is the track record of SAAB’s aircraft?

@DumpUSBonds @thatSTEVE @USWPColby @MarkJCarney Do you realize that half of the Gripen is US parts or licensing, including the engines? But if you truly believe it is a much better choice for Canada go for it. Just don’t make the choice for revenge- you know the digging two graves stuff.

@thatSTEVE @USWPColby @MarkJCarney fuck the F35s . They have an unreliable government and can't even deliver the ones we already paid for on time. Gripens and drone warfare is the future. We need Arctic planes, not planes for dry deserts.

@krisishidd6268 @USWPColby Really! Canada is more military advanced than the USA? Good for you -I didn’t know that. I have been told that Canada is buying the Himars system from the USA for over a billion dollars. Is this a lie? Must be. Please confirm.

@ClintonDesveaux Does the world really need another nuclear armed nation? Remember sooner or later all valves leak.

I agree - Canada should develop a nuclear weapons program to defend the north and our sovereignty

@JohnBouras3230 No you guys really hate our guts. But we really do not hate you. Honestly. PS I have used our healthcare for 79 years. It is not free like Canada (I have to believe nothing is really free) but it is affordable and excellent ( my opinion).

@FWOOD000 Canadians aren’t arrogant for valuing healthcare, social stability, and sovereignty. And we don’t define ourselves by hatred of Americans. We simply don’t believe every country must become America to be successful.

@mario4thenorth Canada is decoupling from the USA and joining China for trade and the EU for everything else,

🚨 BREAKING: The US just suspended the Permanent Joint Board on Defense. It survived: ✅ World War II ✅ The Cuban Missile Crisis ✅ The entire Cold War ✅ 9/11 ✅ 13 prime ministers ✅ 15 presidents ❌ It did not survive one year of Mark Carney. The Pentagon paused the 86-year-old alliance and pointed the statement directly at his Davos speech. 86 YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP. GONE IN ONE SPEECH.

@jbeggs252 Canada is decoupling from the USA. The supposed Canadian purchase of Himars rocket systems from the USA has to be a fake story if you believe their PM. I wonder.

Canada should give zero dollars to US for military kit that has not been received in proper condition and order. Ask Switzerland. trump seized their deposits on f35s that are two years late. No goods, and out the money, in US fashion.

@jbeggs252 I believe Canada does not want the F35 anymore and is replacing it with the Saab fighter. Saudi Arabia is much interested and would pick up the slack if allowed. More and more NATO members feel the F35 is much inferior.

@JohnBouras3230 Very good idea now go do it.

@MateuszKaczysk9 @Microinteracti1 We will survive, adjust and prosper. We always do.

@FWOOD000 @Microinteracti1 Now, look at how purchases have changed over the past year, using Poland as an example. A country that used to buy most of its weapons from the US... now orders almost nothing. This year it will be around 60 billion euros. In Europe.

@Elizabe47883246 @afshinrattansi Disagree, diplomatically China and the USA have been a quarreling husband and wife for decades.

@FWOOD000 @afshinrattansi As always, he’s right. x.com/blackintheempi…

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: ‘The US🇺🇸 thought China🇨🇳 was an impoverished rice-growing country, but its economy has grown 40x since 1980. It’s a much bigger industrial power. It is technologically more advanced than the US in most sectors.’