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Dan Gardner
@dgardner
New York Times bestselling author and co-author of many books. My website: https://t.co/S17Y9SDxGE. My newsletter: https://t.co/XVtKxu6iVi.
Ottawa Katılım Nisan 2010
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For moments like this, I love Friedrich Merz. 🇩🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦
Kate from Kharkiv@BohuslavskaKate
Merz: "Ukraine has been defending its freedom for more than 4 years." (AfD members laughing) Merz: "That’s telling sign, ladies and gentlemen. They laugh about it, they laugh about fate of millions of people in Ukraine and they travel to Moscow for their champagne receptions."
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@kidrickhewat @acoyne When an apolitical video about a change Apple made a decade ago causes you to rage at current supporters of a particular political party in another country, you probably should need a break from social media.
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@acoyne You just finding this out now? Apple is a walled garden. What about all the elbows up crowd? Bet most still use Apple products but let's boycott the US. Only if it doesn't inconvenience us too much. Ha! Morons and idiots!
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*stage whisper* ...come on ... mention the book....
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
This is such an important paper. Ryan McEntush, Sam D'Amico, and Packy McCormick have been screaming about this for a year or more. It's important!!!
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@CalontheRock @MAAWLAW Sorry, I meant this tweet: x.com/dgardner/statu… See those that follow with links.
Dan Gardner@dgardner
Canada is now undertaking its biggest military expansion since the Second World War but rather than praise that change, a top Trump official ignores it entirely and instead pisses on Canada from a great height. The stupidity of these people is staggering.
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I think more so Canadians are a victim of willful blindness.
Do you mean the "increased spending" this year? Its more like shifting civilian infrastructure into the military column so they can avoid actual military spending.
They moved our coast guard expenses into our NATO military spending just so we make the bar, while the alliance allows this its something poor nations do to skirt regulations.
Personally id rather my country meet is obligations with direct funding rather than sketchy accounting that does not = military power.
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"We can no longer avoid the gaps btw rhetoric and reality. Real powers must sustain our rhetoric with shared defense and security responsibilities... Delivering on shared continental defense begins by recognizing our shared geography." - US Undersecretary of War Elbridge Colby🤔
Mike Crawley@MikeCrawleyCBC
Pentagon walks away from Canada-U.S. defence board Trump administration official @USWPColby says Canada 'has failed to make credible progress' on military spending cbc.ca/news/politics/…
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@CalontheRock @MAAWLAW No, that's simply wrong. Go back to my original tweet and you'll see tweets that follow with links. A host of very real and very major changes are underway. The change is real.
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@LLombardo77 @Poet___Myst Sure. And King Charles is a secret lizard preparing the way for alien invasion!
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@Poet___Myst @dgardner You didn't see the FBI now released info that they had like 30 undercover assets in Jan 6, instigators, that it was an inside job?
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This is a Republican Congressman from Nebraska -- and a retired US Air Force general.
Strictly from the perspective of American self-interest, acknowledging Canada has turned an important corner and encouraging Canada to do more makes perfect sense. Pissing on Canada is idiocy.
Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️@RepDonBacon
This all started w/ taunts of “Canada will be the 51st state” & “their Prime Minister will be the 51st governor.” The insults gained us nothing but animosity that cost us economically & now militarily. Cooler & wiser brains are needed to preserve a close alliance w/ our neighbor.
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@CKRiverside Jesus Christ, it's right there in the thread: x.com/dgardner/statu…
Dan Gardner@dgardner
To the many people determined to ignore the obvious and claim "it's all accounting tricks..." NATO has agreed definitions of what can and cannot be counted. It monitors to ensure compliance. And here's NATO's latest:
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Canada is now undertaking its biggest military expansion since the Second World War but rather than praise that change, a top Trump official ignores it entirely and instead pisses on Canada from a great height.
The stupidity of these people is staggering.
Thomas Juneau@thomasjuneau
Has Canada long neglected defence? 100% true. But it just reached 2% of GDP, with more to come. Strong alliances have always been a key US advantage relative to the USSR and now China; Trump is squandering what has long been a major source of US power.
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@CKRiverside Can you guess the name of a country that has long welcomed legal non-citizen residents into its armed forces? Starts with a "U." Ends with an "S."
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@dgardner What’s changed is that we are importing 3rd world immigrants to staff the forces as mercenaries
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@TomTSEC Three-quarters of recent recruitment expansions were citizens.
And do you know who has long welcomed legal, non-citizen residents into their armed forces? The US.
And a long list of programs underway now says you are ignoring reality in favour of a politically driven assumption.
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Dear Dan,
In case you did not notice it, the Canadian Forces recruiting system is collapsing internally.
What Carney says he is doing and what is happening are quite different.
EXCLUSIVE: CAF training platoon with 83% non-citizens devolved into ethnic infighting
junonews.com/p/exclusive-ca…
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@dgardner Spending billions for Chinese mine infrastructure is not defence spending he is using mirrors
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FREDERIKSEN: Main reason Ukraine still standing is Ukraine. We supported them, that’s good. But we were slow on weapon deliveries, imposed red lines. Ukraine still not in NATO. We asked them to fight with one hand behind their back. Huge mistake. You have to fight war to win it.
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@scotty_karr There is no Amazon next-day delivery for weapons systems, friend. It takes the US military a decade to buy a hammer.
There is real change underway. The submarine fleet procurement, for one, is moving at what experts in the field consider a startlingly fast pace.
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@dgardner Ya ya when they arrive you can get excited
Until then adding the coastguard to DND is not really a win it’s civilian staffed and not armed. No if they went through the same basic training as the rest of the CAF (as sub par as it is) and armed the ships I could get behind that
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@MylesFichter As with everything Ezra writes, there are occasional nuggets of reality mixed in there, but mostly it's distortions and nonsense. (eg. the "massive attack ad" was run by Conservative Premier Doug Ford, not Carney.)
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@dgardner A much more realistic take:
x.com/i/status/20564…
Ezra Levant 🍁🚛@ezralevant
Mark Carney: * calls China a "strategic partner" and goes to Beijing to join their "New World Order". * promises to let in 49,000 Chinese vehicles each year, with their spy cameras intact * undermines Trump's Abraham Accords, unilaterally endorses sovereignty for Hamas-run Palestine, calls to arrest Netanyahu * vastly increases funding for Hamas-led UNRWA * says Canada is reconsidering buying U.S. F-35s * opens a consulate in Greenland (where there are a total of sixteen Canadians) * runs a massive attack ad against Trump on U.S. TV channels * refuses to seal off the Canada-U.S. border to drugs or migrants * cheats on NATO spending quota by including non-military items in accounting * bans U.S. dairy products, to prop up Quebec oligopoly * trans-ships Chinese steel into the U.S. * says Canada should join the European Union, including its Defence Bank Other than that, though, I can't think of any reason the Yanks have to be so stroppy.
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@scotty_karr Bullshit. New ships, a whole fleet of submarines, a new fleet of jets. And as for the army: x.com/dgardner/statu…
Dan Gardner@dgardner
For the people who keep insisting nothing real is changing in the Canadian Armed Forces: You are wrong. Here is one of many indicators of huge change underway. theglobeandmail.com/gift/21c2d6250…
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@dgardner We have done nothing but shrink since then we are at an all time low 65000 personnel (probably less)
12 aging frigate’s a couple dozen really aging aircraft a woke narrative running through the CAF
Yes we have some new ships on the way that we will pay way too much for
So no
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@AmericaExpanded @RepDonBacon People like you simply refuse to take "yes" for an answer.
The Carney government agreed we badly underfunded the CAF and it boosted spending 50% with further boosts that will take spending to 150% above 2024 levels. There are huge changes coming. To ignore that is ridiculous.
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Partially true.
You can be upset about the taunts all you want; however, Canada still destroyed its own military capability over the last few decades all on its own.
Carney is actively courting Chinese military assistance, now making the situation worse.
Canada doesn’t get to emerge from this blame-free while screaming “Orange Man Bad” any more than the moron Colby gets to abandon an ally who is quietly destroying their own country.
Neither Carney nor Colby are making the situation better. Both are actively making it worst for incompetent reasons.
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This all started w/ taunts of “Canada will be the 51st state” & “their Prime Minister will be the 51st governor.” The insults gained us nothing but animosity that cost us economically & now militarily. Cooler & wiser brains are needed to preserve a close alliance w/ our neighbor.
The Hill@thehill
Pentagon pauses Canada joint military board, pointing to Carney remarks thehill.com/policy/defense…
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