Darren 🇨🇦🎸🥃

Dad of twins. Retd RCN and DND. Leafs, Jays, NYG. Zep, Rush, Pearl Jam, Rival Sons. Interests - strat foresight, mil hist/theory. Never met a book I didn't buy.

[Darren 🇨🇦🎸🥃 @endlessrooftops]

@24thminute You must check out the new album “Frozen Charlotte” - it’s outstanding

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

🚨GIVEAWAY ALERT🚨

Win 1 of 3 copies of '1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe' by Peter Fritzsche from @BasicBooks.

“An admirable and useful addition to the history of World War II” and “Haunting, panoramic"

Must retweet/repost to be eligible. Draw Friday.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

I watched this happen on the morning of 4 June 1989 in Chang’an Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, the morning after the night’s massacre. Don’t believe the propaganda lie that no massacre took place: I saw 40 people killed in front of me before giving up counting in despair.

[Darren 🇨🇦🎸🥃 @endlessrooftops]

@BoCMuseum @bankofcanada @ASD_South It’s spelled Saint John. St. John’s is in Newfoundland.

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

One of Pierre Poilievre’s high-profile Conservative candidates was a member of a secret “Freedom Convoy” chat group that helped promote and coordinate the MAGA-inspired and foreign-funded protest movement. https://t.co/oNkoWjZfii

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

For all the complaining the right does against ‘cancel culture’, this is an actual example of those same people harassing someone out of work. That’s the double standard they’re setting, because they don’t actually care about free speech.

[Marc Garneau @MarcGarneau]

Let's be clear. Trump never had any intention of dropping the tariffs no matter what we did at the border. He and his commerce guy were toying with us. That's the way Trump operates. The die is now cast.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

If Donald Trump persists, the tariffs on Canada and Mexico will stand as the most extreme and most dangerous act of protectionism by an American president in nearly a century https://t.co/q6ecwPnNej

Photo: Getty Images

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

[Andreas Koureas FRAS FRSA 🇬🇧🎗️ @AndreasKoureas_]

During a particularly rowdy debate in the House of Commons, on the 14th December 1950;

Winston Churchill, then Leader Of The Opposition, told the governing side that,

"I beg honourable Gentlemen opposite not to interrupt any expression of their feelings which they may desire to make, because it does not trouble or worry me in the slightest. It only prevents my getting on with what I have to say. [...]

I am quite determined to utter my last sentence if I have to stand here half an hour."

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

At times like these, I recall Poilievre's Conservatives voting against improving trade with Ukraine.

#cdnpoli

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it.
https://t.co/9coF4XQAmT

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This brilliant cartoon clearly explains Trump’s current position on Ukraine. It is in Ukrainian with English subtitles. Share it with anyone who keeps repeating russian propaganda.

[Dominik Hasek @hasek_dominik]

For more than 8 years we have known that the US president hates democratic regimes and adores dictators. We have known for a long time that @realDonaldTrump is a liar and now we can say with certainty that DT is also a traitor who is doing everything to ensure that Ukraine loses part of its territory, that Russia does not have to pay trillions for lost and crippled Ukrainian lives, and that the greatest criminal of our time, Putin, is not tried and punished for his crimes.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Dictators in History:

- Hitler – “The good of the state stands above the law.”
- Mussolini – “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte – “I am the revolution.”
- Francisco Franco – “I am responsible only to God and to history.”

Trump:
"He who saves his country does not violate any law"

[Christopher Ankersen @ProfAnkersen]

Saturday thoughts (a 🧵):

1. We should not underestimate the importance & impact of the end of the post-1945 system. This is a big deal.

2. Many outside of the West will be more familiar with what is now being visited on America's friends & allies.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

🚨GIVEAWAY ALERT🚨

Win 1 of 3 copies of 'The Vietnam War: A Military History' by historian Geoffrey Wawro from @BasicBooks

"Written in fluid, artful prose... this is well worth checking out." — Publisher's Weekly

Retweet to enter; draw Friday.

https://t.co/ysRiCLx6p2

[Darren 🇨🇦🎸🥃 @endlessrooftops]

@RoyalCanNavy Please correct St John to Saint John NB

[felix salmon @felixsalmon]

For everybody who thinks the Wambsgans / baseball / triple-play thing came from some woman on TikTok this week, no, it didn't, it came from @RichardEllenso1 on Medium six weeks ago https://t.co/2v4KXnbzuM