Marcus Kolga 🇨🇦🇪🇪🇺🇦

3 years ago, I rejected an award from Estonia’s then-far-right Interior Minister whose EKRE party members have supported racism, homophobia, and antisemitism. I remain as unyielding in my values + principles today.

Italian vatniks are spreading false flag claims that the Baltic states are planning to invade Russia. The media channel La7 is helping spread these lies, which Russia can use to justify aggression against EU countries. La7 is owned by Urbano Cairo, a former ally of Silvio Berlusconi, who accepted a plea deal during the Mani Pulite corruption investigations for financial crimes including embezzlement and false accounting.

Demo of a Chinese 🇨🇳 video surveillance portal that purports to track all foreign visitors, including journalists, integrating video feeds w other data (e.g., pictures from ski passes) to conduct mass surveillance & social network analysis 👇 netaskari.substack.com/p/sharp-eyes-h…

Latvia and Canada are Allies and soulmates - in our values, worldview, and committment to democracy. 🇱🇻🇨🇦 Thank you to our Canadian allies for the outstanding leadership of the NATO presence in Latvia. We are #StrongerTogether.

The "spirit of Anchorage" was the spirit of Molotov-Ribbentrop. But Zelenskyy and the brave Ukrainian people refused to play the part of the conquered and abandoned trading piece between Trump and Putin.

Russia’s claim that Ukraine is preparing attacks on Russia from Latvian territory is false and baseless. Latvia has repeatedly said it does not provide airspace for attacks on Russia. The false accusations, paired with threats to strike ‘decision-making centres’ in Latvia, are part of a broader Russian disinformation campaign aimed at trying to intimidate Europe, weakening support for Ukraine, and justifying further aggression.

Approved by @Europarl_EN: Canada becomes the first non-European partner to join the 'Security Action for Europe' framework. An instrument that keeps people safer, supports investment in critical capabilities, and creates new opportunities for our industries. An agreement that strengthens our partnership and practical cooperation on security and defence 🇪🇺🇨🇦 @MAStrackZi @bbudka

Russia should be expelled from the @UN Security Council -- just as the Soviet Union was from the League Council in 1939 for invading Finland.

Unsurprising that a neo-Nazi would seek a new Molotov-Ribbentrop pact w Ru trying to divide up control over Eastern Europe. Just be clear that this is what "seeking peace with Russia" means.

Which is why it was wise of Ukraine not to take the bait to trade territory for “security guarantees.” Security guarantees mean whatever Trump, Colby and Hegseth want them to mean at any given time.

This is a rather refined form of schizophrenia. No visas for schizophrenics

#Belarus More than 24 billion requests and 68 Tb of traffic hit the Coordination Council elections in a week-long DDoS campaign targeting Belarusians in exile voting for their representatives. This is the new digital reality: protocol probing, disinfo and infrastructure warfare.

Canadian MP Michael Chong is in Taiwan this week despite objections from Beijing. “Canada is a sovereign and independent country,” he said, and does not take direction from a foreign government on where Canadian MPs can travel or where Navy warships transit. Good for him.

This is nonsensical and counterproductive. Canada is finally getting serious about investing in national defence. This should be welcomed and encouraged by our allies, not attacked. For the first time since the Cold War, we have achieved the longstanding 2% GDP target, and are credibly moving to the new 3.5% core defence target. The Blame Canada crowd here is claiming that’s all the result of creative accounting. Nonsense. - We have adopted the same framework for scoring defence spending as most of our NATO allies - The federal budget and estimates show real, material budgeted increases to meet the targets - We are spending $55 billion to build 15 cutting edge destroyers, part of the larger naval ship building strategy launched by the Harper government - The RCN is about to launch the procurement of 12 new submarines - The RCAF is finally about to take possession of our first tranche of F35s as part of the new fighter jet fleet - Canada is spending tens of $ billions to modernize and expand Arctic military capacity - The decline in total Canadian Armed Forces personnel has finally turned around, and force size is expanding. Anyone who works in or close to the Canadian defence sector knows that this is real. Exciting things are happening in defence tech innovation, procurement, industry partnerships, etc. Canada’s underinvestment in national defence goes back decades under different governments. It was allowed to get to a shameful state, and for too long we have preened about our moral authority while living rent free under the American security umbrella. It will take time to achieve the ambitious goals of Canada’s defence rebuild. But Prime Minister Carney’s commendable defence reset began just a year ago. The Permanent Joint Board on Defence has been a key platform for cooperation on North American defence since the Second World War. It has operated in good times and bad: during our joint operations in the Korean and Afghan Wars; during much lower levels of Canadian defence spending; and even when a US President threatened to annex Canada. Our two countries have shed blood together in the defence of freedom. Geography dictates that we will always need each other to defend North America. So our alliance must be able to stand above occasional tensions in the bilateral relationship.

US ‘Pausing’ Permanent Joint Board on Defence Further Vindicates Canada’s Deepening of Defence Ties with the European Union. spencerfernando.com/2026/05/18/us-…

Thank you @Braze_Baiba and Latvia for hosting me today and for underscoring the close relationship between Latvia and Canada, including through Operation REASSURANCE. This is Canada’s largest overseas military operation and we are committed to strengthening cooperation between our two countries. 🇨🇦 🇱🇻

Not a single signatory from @uOttawa on this list to distance themselves from their part-time colleague’s book, described by 119 Eastern Europe experts as “a strange exercise of blaming Kyiv and its Western friends for Russia’s annexations and genocide in Ukraine.”

I know that feeling… Now, I have to convince everyone that if we get our act together, we can actually deal with it.

BRAVO Conservative MP Michael Chong visits Taiwan to meet President, in defiance of China theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

Which is funny because German domestic security considers AfD a high security risk.