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Candidate for Bogomil Pope @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 5h

One of the more depressing things about this century is that Merkel doing the humane thing, the Christian thing, the common sense thing, what we’re supposed to do as humans, did more to fuel this radical right movement than anything else. And what that says about humanity today is depressing

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 5h

Still, I think it was a good sign that these campaigns were able to pursue pretty unified messaging despite a deck stacked against them in many ways. If this issue endures beyond the 19th - and it will - Phillips is absolutely correct that we must unify and improve our messaging and ground game.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 5h

I think Lukaszuk deserves a little more credit for getting my resoundingly apolitical neighbors putting up pro-Canadian yard signs and encouraging others to vote to stay. The No To The Nine campaign has done crucial work mobilizing the vote, but I think Forever Canadian also put the work in.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 5h

An interesting article, worth reading for a breakdown of the federalist side and a good critique of Ottawa‘s messaging (or lack thereof). I do think it’s convenient that the progressive campaigns both scored A (one of which I’d never heard of) while Forever Canadian somehow limped off with a C-.

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Aaron Stein @aaronstein1.bsky.social · 13h

Super website creator Greg found the original podcast @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social and I did on April 20, 2014. And the audio is worse than I remember. We are awkward and terrible at hosting. And it is totally awesome. We have been podcasting together for 12.5 years! And still going strong

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 7h

New shipwreck just dropped.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 8h

Canada is the spiritual home of the mining scam in part because of a proud history of guys pointing at assays showing super reserves of chromite or something in Je-Me-Pèle-Les-Miches in the ass-end of northern Quebec and going “c’mon, it’s just semi-Arctic conditions, how hard can one mine be?”

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 8h

An Arctic “mineral rush” is one of the great mirages of the 21st Century. I found it annoying when trotted out to justify monomaniacal Canadian focus on Arctic security, but never expected Trump’s brainworms would twist it into a fixation with Greenland.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

Does the president actually understand the Greenland deal?

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 9h

Once again we see that they can put this narrative down and pick it up again whenever they like. It may vanish from the headlines from time to time, but the overall trend is increasingly normalizing annexation rhetoric from Trump, and by extension normalizing it in Republican discourse.

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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 17h

“Hospitals across Yemen are struggling to cope with a sharp rise in war casualties, while intensified fighting along multiple front lines has ‌cut off aid to around 800,000 people, humanitarian agencies said on Wednesday.” @livvylepoids.bsky.social, @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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Yemen fighting overwhelms hospitals, cuts aid to 800,000 people, relief agencies say

Hospitals across Yemen are struggling to cope with a sharp rise in war casualties, while intensified fighting along multiple front lines has ‌cut off aid to around 800,000 people, humanitarian agenci...

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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 17h

The Houthis appear to be trying to set up their own Kheibar Shekan MRBM production line in Yemen using Chinese parts, report @wsj.com’s Laurence Norman and Benoit Faucon. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Exclusive | The Houthis Are Building an Advanced Missile With Chinese Parts

A report by weapons experts at Conflict Armament Research shows how the Yemeni militant group is developing medium-range weapons independently of Iran.

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EagleBeaverMan @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 11h

We don’t talk about the fact the Russians murdered between 5 and 30% of an entire city’s prewar inhabitants and we don’t talk about it because the Russians kill any journalist or NGO who tries to get close enough to count the bodies. Yet, they still get the cop passive voice in these fucking rags.

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Michael Cruickshank @cruickshank.bsky.social · 11h

"But as Ukraine’s war effort falters, there are mounting signs of the conflict spiraling into generalized warfare." The first clause is a direct inversion of the truth (Ukraine is advancing), and the second uses passive voice to avoid naming which party is causing the conflict to spiral (Russia).

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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Allow me to explain something perhaps basic re: the growing Republika Srpska entity scandal in Washington. The issue with the Dodik regime’s lobbying in Washington is not the formal act of lobbying itself per se; that’s a legal act for which lawful procedures exist. Although...

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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Reporting about existence of these Russian election disruption training camps in Bosnia's RS entity, on behalf of whose Kremlin and Beijing backed government Ms. Wiles' firm Continental Strategy lobbies, is well established also. detektor.ba/2025/07/15/u...

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Disruptors: Inside Russia’s Balkan Training Camps for Moldovan ‘Destabilisation’

A joint investigation by BIRN’s Bosnia and Hercegovina outlet Detektor and Moldovan CU SENS sheds new light on the training camps run by Russian operatives in Bosnia and Serbia that Chisinau says were...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12h

damn. wow. i had no idea. we should send more weapons to ukraine.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 11h

Taiwan is the one under the gun here and like everyone else it needs to find ways to buy time and get what it can out of the U.S. while finding alternative options. Loudly signalling that they no longer have or even want American backing only flags vulnerabilities which they will not be able to fix.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 11h

I guess the question here is whether the current Taiwanese position is “betting the farm” and frankly I don’t think it is. They have been working to diversify and build up sovereign capability for years, and it’s hard to understand what they would even achieve with a “decisive break”.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 13h

Ukraine has also done all of this and people understand why it still works to maintain what US support it can, which is why it would be incredibly weird to use the Starlink thing to talk about how everyone in Kyiv is going to death camps if they don‘t stop buying PAC-3s right this second.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 13h

Okay, but the thing is that Taiwan is demonstrably not ignoring this and has been hedging and working to build up domestic capabilities for years (far longer than we have), so it would accomplish nothing by trading crucial if uncertain US support for essentially borderline autarky.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 13h

I think Chen and the Taiwanese probably know that better than a random Westerner, which is why brandishing that existential risk in their face for not emotionally satisfying us by randomly blowing up their key alliance to no immediate benefit seems more than a little ugly.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, it’s very true that the U.S. is an increasingly unreliable and erratic partner, but there’s not much point in finger-wagging at Taipei for being blindsided in the same way as the entire Western alliance system, nor does Taiwan have any good alternatives. This is the reality for many countries.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 13h

It is not especially classy to wave the Uyghur Genocide at a Taiwanese security expert like a cudgel, but also, I don’t see why everyone frames Taiwan’s position as blind trust or enthusiasm for the GOP rather than the reality of a country having to navigate a vital but increasingly murky alliance.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 14h

I appreciate you overlooking my using pathetic twice in the same sentence.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 14h

What in the Sam Hell is a War Major-General? I thought all Major-Generals were supposed to fight wars? And this pathetic clapping for a trade deal is just pathetic.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14h

It's fascinating, isn't it? Only two years ago she was signing off pamphlets arguing that there was no point winning back the professionals because of woke and doing a 'of course, we would do that HARDER' to everything Farage said. Now some pretty big outlays for the professionals and...this.

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 15h

Russia has a name for neighbors that aren’t supposed to have their own foreign policy: the Near Abroad. It’s a wonderfully dialectical term, each half negating the other to create an imperial synthesis that treats sovereignty as a plaything of the Russian imagination. new post

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Trump’s Near Abroad

A complaint from across Lake America

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 14h

Including a senior National Post person (who is not reflective of the views of her colleagues).

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Strange discourse on the other site, claiming Canada and Canadians did not exist in 1812. archive.org/details/inva...

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The invasion of Canada 1812-1813

xi, 363 pages :

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 14h

I think Taiwan is pretty clearly already willing to support a domestic arms industry and maintain a well-armed conscript force that exercises regularly. But there are flatly limits to Taiwan’s ability to go it alone that I think you are too hasty to dismiss.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 14h

Okay, but you can see how just openly breaking ties with the U.S. would be a massive invitation to military action compared to the ambiguity of possible U.S. support, right? That’s not an abstract thing, it is concretely yoked to Taiwanese ability to maintain deterrence.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 14h

Unsure on that score, but South Korea‘s defence industry has limits in its capabilities and (as its relationship with Ukraine shows) is not always a reliable supplier of aid in situations where Seoul fears eroding its own stocks or otherwise prioritizes its own situation vis a vis the DPRK.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 14h

No European navy is remotely equipped for a fight in the Pacific within the next 10 years. Taiwan has worked to develop alternative partnerships in other areas but simply creating gaping capability gaps they have no means to fix will not help them become more secure or sovereign.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 15h

With respect, this is a wicked problem which makes Canada’s own strategic dilemmas look incredibly mild by comparison. Taiwan cannot pivot to partners that cannot help defend it against an immediate threat. Uncertain U.S. support is still worth more than functionally worthless EU support.

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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 16h

At its meeting of the accession conference with Ukraine on 13 October, the EU and Ukraine opened negotiations on cluster 2 (internal market) and cluster 3 (competitiveness and inclusive growth). Two of 6 clusters had been opened in June. The remaining 2 are expected to be opened by the end of 2026.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 16h

American firms used to be incredibly good at selling their products and persuading customers to believe in them - in technology especially. The fact that the best elite accelerators can do is suggest hack ragebait is IMO a sign of genuine hollowing out of a pillar of American dynamism.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 16h

Compare and contrast with Cohere, which by all accounts is run by adults who know how to sell something, and as a result just advertises their product and what it can do without threatening the viewer with mass unemployment or claiming it is an instance of God that can run your relationships.

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Introducing North by Cohere

YouTube video by Cohere

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 16h

I wonder if this kind of shitty, “any publicity is good publicity“ ragebait marketing is becoming a hallmark of Y Combinator and that wider milieu, or if a bunch of firms who’ve never done marketing all got the same terrible idea to sell their product at the same time.

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Why “dystopian” ads are becoming a deliberate startup marketing strategy | BetaKit

After racking up views through ragebait, Orchid is doubling down with “the first AI built to take your jobs.”

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 19h

This should set off a siren in every defence ministry in Europe: there needs to be much more urgency about developing autonomous capabilities, not subject to US caprices, for early warning of attacks, countering ballistic missiles, communicating with forces or controlling offensive weapons.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 16h

We ought to try to be liked, and work hard to at least be trusted, but for the love of Almighty God we have to stop trying to be cool.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 16h

> They might actually try to launch a party V-Tuber someday

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 17h

Have just been informed that the town of Teltow in Brandenburg has a "Canadian Quarter":

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 17h

Waiting for when Luckey is forced to dome several colleagues in the Capitol parking lot and then pass the gun to Karp so he can do some too, like Ba’ath Party members during Saddam’s public purge.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 19h

Completely agree, and I think we ignore this at our peril. *Everyone* is getting more conspiratorial, and it's going to inform the future.

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defenceWeb @defenceweb.co.za · 18h

The inaugural African Maritime Security Forum is getting underway in Ghana, focussing on maritime security threats across Africa in a time of geopolitical uncertainty, and examining strategies to address current and future challenges. defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/...

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First African Maritime Security Forum getting underway in Ghana - DefenceWeb

The inaugural African Maritime Security Forum is getting underway at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Ghana from Wednesday,

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