The upcoming CUSMA review process is proving that Canada is firmly in the driver’s seat of continental commerce.
While Washington tries to put a brave face on stalled negotiations, Canada's negotiating team—anchored by experts like former chief negotiator Steve Verheul—has completely flipped the script on the world's biggest economy.
Trump may want to take a premature victory slide, but Ottawa’s foresight to diversify into global markets much earlier than anticipated has left the Americans with literally zero leverage.
Our exports remain shielded, and Canada refuses to accept a bad deal just to secure a quick win before the U.S. midterms.
CUSMA will move forward into an annual review process (on our terms), and no matter how much the U.S. blusters, they know they have been outmaneuvered.
The reality is that Canada has already forged ahead with stable, honest global partners while the U.S. retreats into isolation.
Let's be honest:
The severe damage this current American administration has inflicted on global trade relationships has shattered international trust beyond repair. It is now glaringly obvious that the world no longer trusts the United States as a reliable trade partner, and the blame lies entirely with Washington's erratic, bridge-burning approach to diplomacy.
Sometimes the truth hurts.
America's going to have to deal with it.
Canada Strong.
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#CUSMA
#MAGA
Why don’t Conservatives admit that as an actor, Poilievre is a dud? If they know the real guy will never be a PM , stop asking what he can do to fool voters? Recruit a grown up. To most adults, that’s Canadian Common Sense.
Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence of Finland: Canada really hit our radar screen in security and defence when, after Russia invaded Crimea, Canada took over the forward land forces lead in Latvia. Canada really projected stability in the Baltic Sea and in our eyes, Canada became a Baltic Sea power and NATO's eastern flank power.
After I received the Meritorious Service Medal at Rideau Hall in Ottawa from the Governor General of Canada, the Honourable Louise Arbour, the Rideau Hall staff invited me to do a move or two. It was time to test if I could do it in the limits of a suit 😊. Now I am inviting our bureaucrats to try this in their own suits 😄
Canada Day is fast approaching, so this is a test run, can I get some love for Canada! 🍁 Calling all Canadians, asking people across the world to help make #Canada trend.
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You fucking DAFT PRICK!
Canada paid for the entire bridge. It used US & Canadian steel, & US & Canadian workers which Canada paid for!
THE DEAL IS Canada keeps the revenue UNTIL THE BRIDGE IS PAID FOR, then it is is split between the US & Canada, AND the US owns 1/2 the bridge
“We will take it back.”
The Azov Corps, whose fighters defended Azovstal to the very end, has begun a systematic bombing campaign against occupied Mariupol.
Many of the Azov Brigade soldiers who fought for Mariupol until the last moment were killed or taken prisoner. Those who survived and returned are now preparing to reclaim their city, Reuters reports.
“Even if it takes 20 years, we will spend 20 years planning, waiting, and preparing,” Arsen Dmytryk, Chief of Staff of Azov, which is now the 1st Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine, told the agency.
“But when the time comes, we must be ready. I believe we will take it back [Mariupol]. It is only a matter of time.”
The Ukrainian military is attempting to turn the Crimean Peninsula into the "island" of Crimea, and this is extremely important for the entire war.
How did we get here?
The Crimean Peninsula is connected to the mainland via two routes: the first is Crimea-Kherson (Ukraine) in the north of the peninsula, where three bridges serve this purpose: Chongar, Henichesk, and Armiansk. The second is Crimea-Krasnodar (Russia), via the Kerch Bridge.
Crimea was essential to the 2022 invasion because attacks on Ukraine’s southern front were launched from there. The invasion toward Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and later toward Mykolaiv and Odesa originated in Crimea.
The stabilized fronts in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were maintained in the first months of the invasion solely because of Crimea, through which the supply lines ran, where the military bases were located, and from where some of the Russian airstrikes on this flank were launched. In 2022, the Kerch Bridge was targeted by the Ukrainians. That strike knocked down a section of the bridge, destroyed the railway lines, and damaged its structure. To this day, the Kerch Bridge has not been used as a serious military logistics route.
Fast-forward to 2026, and we arrive in May of this year when Ukraine began targeting the logistics lines connecting Russia and Crimea via the "land bridge" of Mariupol-Berdiansk-Melitopol. These lines sustain and keep the southern front alive.
What is happening now?
For more than a year, Crimea has been the target of Ukrainian “mid-strike” attacks that are part of a shaping, modeling, and groundwork operation. Russian bases, radars, air defense systems, and naval bases have all been simply obliterated during this period.
The two operations—the one against the Mariupol-Crimea lines and the one against Crimea itself—have led to a dire situation on the peninsula. The population is on fuel rationing. Military bases are no longer defended. The naval fleet was forced as early as 2023 to flee to Novorossiysk.
It must be understood that if Crimea becomes militarily (and civilian) unsustainable, the Russian southern front faces a danger unlike any seen before in this war. Crimea REMAINS essential to this front. So the Ukrainians have gotten to work and:
This week they struck multiple times at the three access routes from the mainland to the peninsula: the Chongar, Henichesk, and Armiansk bridges. Crimea is close to complete isolation (it will never be entirely so).
The only operational military route is the one in Armiansk, because the bridge crosses the old canal that used to bring water from the Kahovka reservoir (destroyed by the Russians in 2023) to Crimea.
Crimea is on the verge of becoming a new disaster for the “second army of the world.” This year, the Ukrainians will certainly do everything in their power to isolate the Russian army there, weaken the southern front, and thus try to turn the tide of the war (because yes, Crimea could be one of the keys to an unexpectedly favorable outcome for Ukraine).
What might follow?
These operations will continue and intensify during these summer months, because Ukraine has the necessary resources: equipment (FP-2 attack drones and Behemoth—we’ll be hearing a lot about this new “Shahed-type” drone, but Ukrainian-made, with a dual payload), identification technology, acquisition, AI-guided strikes, and the necessary financial resources.
In Crimea, this year, the fate of this war MAY be “decided,” at least in part. To give you an idea, the isolation and blockade of Crimea could open the possibility (in a best-case scenario) of liberating the Kherson region (on the left bank of the Dnieper) and liberating Melitopol, the collapse of the Zaporizhzhia front, the liberation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the liberation of Berdiansk, and forcing the Russians to redeploy units from the eastern front, opening up opportunities for Ukraine there as well.
Slava Ukraini!
They are trying to silence us..
Algorithm is working against us.!
So show your voice..🙌
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Donetsk and Mariupol Have Fallen into a Ring of Fire. Russian Logistics in the South Are Paralyzed
What is happening now in Donbas and southern Ukraine is going far beyond conventional warfare. Donetsk and Mariupol — two of the main symbols of Russia’s occupation — have effectively found themselves under operational blockade.
Ukrainian drones and reconnaissance-strike groups are systematically operating 100–160 kilometers deep behind enemy lines. The roads Russia has used to supply equipment, ammunition, and fuel are under constant fire control. Occupying forces' logistics in this sector have been virtually disrupted.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are not merely carrying out precision strikes — they are methodically destroying the enemy’s supply arteries. From Mariupol to Donetsk, from Melitopol to Zaporizhzhia, Russian convoys can no longer move without significant risk. Trucks, fuel tankers, command vehicles — all have become targets, even dozens of kilometers from the front line.
What does this mean?
Control of logistics means control of territory. If Russian forces cannot reliably deliver ammunition, fuel, and reinforcements, their entire defensive system begins to crumble. What they spent years building is now being held together by little more than hope.
Ukrainian troops are returning to Mariupol. For now, from the sky — but with increasing confidence. The range and depth of strikes continue to grow, while new mid-strike drones make it possible to destroy enemy rear-area assets on a large scale and at relatively low cost.
This is no longer just a tactical advantage. It is the beginning of a genuine operational blockade of Russia’s entire southern military grouping.
🇺🇸 Kongres Stanów Zjednoczonych oficjalnie wypowiedział posłuszeństwo Donaldowi Trumpowi, odbierając mu uprawnienia wojenne i przepychając pakiet dla Ukrainy wbrew jego woli.
Wygląda na to że przerażeni Republikanie masowo już uciekają z tonącego okrętu przed listopadowymi wyborami.
Co dokładnie się wydarzyło?
Izba Reprezentantów (kontrolowana przez Republikanów!) przegłosowała rezolucję zakazującą Trumpowi prowadzenia wojny bez zgody parlamentu.
Mało tego! I to jest absolutny nokaut dla polityki Trumpa. Kongresmeni skrzyknęli się ponad podziałami i za pomocą specjalnej procedury (omijając lojalnego wobec Trumpa Spikera) przegłosowali pchnięcie do przodu pakietu dla Ukrainy: ponad 1 miliard USD na obronę, 8 miliardów USD w pożyczkach i nowe sankcje na Rosję.