Reposted by RobBaltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 10hLatvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braža says that, based on information received today from relevant authorities, and after discussions with the Prime Minister and Interior Minister, the process has been initiated to add a Russian citizen to Latvia’s list of personae non gratae. 2466
Rob @robtmackinnon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"The American delegation travelled to Calgary to sell them on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote – and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation." 000
Reposted by RobAnders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 02/10/2026"European officials are warning of the risk of Moscow intensifying its hybrid campaign aimed at increasing pressure on Ukraine's allies." Europeans really need to get beyond the idea that Russia is planning for a hybrid war. This is what preparations for a real war look like.pravda.com.uaRussia increases military spending as Putin prepares for years of war, Bloomberg reportsBloomberg reports Russia's draft 2027 budget shows record military spending, a 40% jump, signaling Putin is preparing for a prolonged war. 923268
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... 714554
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 Rob🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @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 33120
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. 46778138
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” 20688312
Rob @robtmackinnon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"This could include destructive cyber attacks that cripple critical societal functions as well as sabotage attacks that carry a high risk of casualties." www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...fe-ddis.dk 001
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. 6254112
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 1317876
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. 13341011195
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 10746219
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 · 22/09/2026Russia is deliberately destroying American assets in Ukraine zn.ua/eng/the-empe...zn.uaThe Emperor Has No Clothes: Who Is Protecting American Assets Abroad?Russia is increasingly targeting facilities belonging to American companies in Ukraine. Why isn’t this prompting a strong response from Washington, and what does this mean for Western investment? 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
Rob @robtmackinnon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Canada also exports more potash to the United States than Belarus produces in total. And Belarus is apparently sold out for the season 040
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 66211
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. 42841225
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/ 724312
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