Today, we announced that we surpassed our Regular Force recruiting objective for fiscal year 2025-26. We enrolled 7,310 new members, marking the highest number of enrolments in more than 30 years. https://t.co/kdqeYbE08W
In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll discuss the Ukrainian SBU’s “Spiderweb” operation and the main disinformation narrative vatniks have been spreading during the afterfall. While domestic Russian media stays silent, the vatniks and Russian milbloggers have been extremely loud.
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Russia made a mistake by attacking Ukraine.
They can’t win because the will of the Ukrainian people is not broken.
And European countries will stand by them.
My press conference following today's Foreign Affairs Council ↓
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For once, albeit accidentally, Putin has told the truth: long-term peace in Ukraine is only possible by “eliminating the root causes of this crisis.”
The main “root cause” is an old deranged KGB officer in the Kremlin who views the collapse of the Soviet empire as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century”, calls his opponents “national traitors” and Ukraine “an artificial state”, and idolizes Stalin and Andropov.
Without “eliminating” this “root cause” there will not be peace not only in Ukraine, but in Europe as a whole.
In Canada we believe in gun control not uterus control; we don’t go bankrupt to cover health care costs; we are a mosaic, not a melting pot; richer people pay higher taxes and we normally don’t wish for really bad things to happen to someone unless they threaten to annex us.
@POTUS@elonmusk
Canada will never be a US state. Canada will never bend a knee to a dictator like Trump.
Canadians will come together, fly our flag proudly, and kick your ass as we unite in singing our National Anthem.
Today is the anniversary of when I was wounded and captured on a mission in #Libya in 2011, becoming a POW for nearly 6 months before escaping from prison and returning to combat.
It is also the day that this photo has been released of five Ukrainian POWs executed by #Russia.
The West needs to change its mindset about this war before it is too late.
Russia doesn't respect the Geneva Convention or any other attempts to establish international norms of conduct, and has been a destabilizing force to civilization since its founding.
You cannot deal with Russia as you would with other countries, expecting that you can integrate them into the community of nations and that their behavior will change, because it never does.
Ending this war with anything less than a victory for #Ukraine only passes the problem of Russia forward to future generations.
They will see photos of Russian atrocities from our time, and seeing similar photos from their own time as well, they will judge us harshly for our failure to stop Russia now.
#StandWithUkraine #UkraineWillWin