Reposted by RobJames McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 30/09/2026As the article notes, it's pretty wild that the U.S. tourism numbers are crashing like this in a year when they literally hosted the World Cup. www.semafor.com/article/09/2... 714454
Reposted by RobNicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Our partnership may become a model for other countries seeking friendship in a challenging world." @politico.eu has leaked the draft EU-Canada declaration, with no mention of an 'Associate Membership', but lots of interesting ambitions for a much deeper partnership: 23011
Reposted by RobAaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Canada already has free trade deals with the United States and Europe. The deal with the U.S. was negotiated with the current president. The U.S. is currently violating that deal with tariffs. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/j... 47925
Reposted by RobMichael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A few months ago we saw 120 children killed in an AI targeting mistake in Iran and prior to that an unprecedented scale of civilian deaths from AI targeting in Gaza. These systems desperately need better oversight and it's deeply disturbing to see leading militaries moving in the opposite direction. 22310
Reposted by RobMaria @mariasergiivna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Russia has found a new target for its attacks on Ukraine: internet providers' data centers They have been deliberately attacking them for nearly a month now, and this week at least four companies came under attack The goal is clear: to cut off connections for Ukraine and Ukrainians #UkrainianView 33020
Rob @robtmackinnon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The conditions here have been near indescribably bad as Russia has refused to let them make a safe exit. Thread 010
Reposted by RobDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This some advanced tankie "thought". Russia has a UNSC seat & world's largest amounts of land, gas, oil and NUKES. Russia also has no agency over our own actions and so cannot be held accountable and therefore must be excused and appeased. 46776137
Reposted by RobNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now. 25997342
Rob @robtmackinnon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cuba is still the apple in Rubio's eye and he's going to push hard for it, somehow 010
Reposted by RobLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground” 20689312
Rob @robtmackinnon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) assesses that Russia will intensify its hybrid war by carrying out more frequent attacks against the West and NATO, with greater consequences for the targeted countries than in the past..[.] 110
Reposted by RobJustin Ling @justinling.ca · 24/09/2026Le Pen got a $10 million Russian loan, which was instrumental in getting her party to where it is now. 6253112
Reposted by RobLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026Love how Facebook's algorithm randomly pushes completely off-topic weekly briefings from the Russian embassy into my newsfeed alongside life updates from my elderly aunts, cousins, high school acquaintances, etc. and I'm supposed to just act like this is normal 58013
Reposted by RobRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So apparently the Trump admin is now concerned to facilitate Putin's engagement with other world leaders. Putin values status recognition of this kind enormously, particularly from the US, and it will be taken as a further sign of Western weakness. 2112648
Reposted by RobLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 23/09/2026Canada's former ambassador to Israel pens article in National Post, claims without evidence there is a "direct link" between "Free Palestine" activists and the shooter in Belleville Then admits she she didn't read the multiple news reports identifying the shooter as a COVID-19 conspiracy theorist 1317877
Reposted by RobJane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Russia has been forcing prisoners of war to speak out against Ukraine on video since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Our team went to Ukraine to uncover how the toll of Russia's prison propaganda machine can follow soldiers even to their graves. www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...nbcnews.comRussia forced a captured Ukrainian soldier to make a propaganda video. His village refused to bury him.Russia has coerced thousands of Ukrainian prisoners to denounce their leaders and country in propaganda videos. The consequences can follow them home. 25217
Reposted by RobMichelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 23/09/2026The Belleville synagogue shooter was an antisemitic COVID conspiracist discharged from the army for refusing vaccines. It's wild that commentary on this shooting IMMEDIATELY went to anti-immigrant, Islamophobic bigotry. But THIS is the extremism that sent me an antisemitic death threat in 2022.globalnews.caBelleville gunman spouted COVID-19 conspiracies while in army, say sources | Globalnews.caThe Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Sean Ward served in the military until 2022. 7322129
Reposted by RobSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act. 13241051197
Reposted by RobBruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Is it good that the Trump White House is attacking the International Criminal Court and the Geneva Conventions while saying it will not accept threats - cartels, left-wing radicals, communists, Antifa, whatever - anywhere in the Western Hemisphere 27736
Reposted by RobTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"One thing I see on this train is that Ukrainians choose to keep going. I don’t want to romanticize; the suffering and the grief are under the eyes, and in the public memorials, and everywhere. Every attack by the enemy hurts, as does every betrayal by an ally." snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...snyder.substack.comA Meditation on Train StationsOn Total War and Individual Responsibility, 2/2 10745219
Rob @robtmackinnon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Lithuania has evacuation plans in the face of threats from Russia, but "will not surrender" if attacked, the PM added www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comLithuania has evacuation plans in face of Russia threats, PM saysSinkevičius told BBC Newsnight Lithuanians feel "constantly threatened" by Moscow, but the nation was prepared to "fight back" if attacked. 000
Rob @robtmackinnon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This didn't happen. But what did happen is Russia bombed American owned companies within Ukraine on several occasions and the Trump administration said nothing 222
Reposted by RobMAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 22/09/2026🤔 Putin is set to travel to 🇨🇳 China for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit hosted by President Xi Jinping, - Bloomberg Putin is likely to skip the Group of 20 in the 🇺🇸US with Donald Trump, according to people close to the Kremlin. 69816
Reposted by RobRoss O'Connor @oconnor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Good luck with that. Canada exports more potash to the US than Belarus produces. 67721
Reposted by Rob(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This video captured the moment when the refinery in Moscow, Russia, was hit a third time. 26910120
Reposted by RobMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p... 291155427
Reposted by RobEugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Realism met Reality. It ended with Realism becoming penniless 66111
Reposted by RobAnders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 19/09/2026"He said on Saturday that creating a pretext to start a war was easy and reiterated Slovakia would not send soldiers to fight under a fabricated pretext." Guess that means Slovakia will not honor article 5. 2520229
Reposted by RobEugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Remember this celebrated Mecca Joint Defense Agreement between KSA, Pakistan and Türkiye that was supposed to complete reshape the balance of power in the Middle East? Yeah, me too. It was just last month 1203
Reposted by RobLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You can present him with any basic post-war arrangement, and tell him it’s NEW and DOMINANT, and he’ll fall for it - The US dollar is now the main reserve currency - The US gets to pick the head of the World Bank - The US gets loads of bases in Germany 57315
Reposted by RobAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/09/2026It looks like the EU is seriously preparing for an attack by Russia. A lot of senior defense officials came out of briefings spooked. Since then, various governments including the Swiss! have issued defiant statements. 43843225
Reposted by RobGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 18/09/2026I think Trump II more broadly and attacking Iran specifically *are* an epoch-shifting moment of some kind, but there are probably huge limitations on just how much things shift. Given the cataclysm of 2008 and 10 years of incremental deglobalization, why are world trade volumes at a record? 1/ 724211
Reposted by RobJohn Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You can't understand the GOPs hostility to Canada without understanding they're huffing Twitter rage 24/7 05813
Rob @robtmackinnon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Cut off from the outside world Russia is now starving this 🇺🇦 city 000
Reposted by RobMujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026‼️🇫🇷🇷🇺 France will take new steps to protect “critical infrastructure” from Russian drone and cyber attacks, President Macron said today. He was talking after inviting French political leaders to discuss the “rapidly deteriorating” international situation in Ukraine & the Gulf 1/ 25015
Reposted by RobThe Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026🇺🇸 General Dan Caine: In certain locations on the front line of troops right now, the life expectancy of a new Russian recruit arriving on the front lines is as little as 20 to 30 minutes. This is what happens when low-cost precision is fielded fast, adapted quickly, and scaled across battlefield. 2237998
Reposted by RobGerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Believe me when I tell you Mark Carney writes his own speeches. Today’s was a rhetorical work of art. 2428488
Rob @robtmackinnon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“Since an executive order signed by Donald Trump on May 1 drove Canada’s Sherritt International from its nickel and cobalt mining joint venture with the Cuban state, two rival US bids to buy out its stake have been presented to US authorities” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump and Rubio allies are vying for control of Cuba’s assets if regime fallsWashington and Florida insiders are exploring lucrative deals for a post-communist Cuba crushed by ever-increasing US sanctions 011
Rob @robtmackinnon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Obviously a very widespread problem now | gift link below 100
