simon parker 🇨🇦

🇨🇦#MADEINCANADA 🇨🇦
#SupportUkraine🇺🇦

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKY: I told Trump that I didn’t play with Putin. For us, it’s very serious. It’s not about cards.

I didn’t have cards, but I had the most important — smart and brave people. This is our card — the card of Ukraine. That’s why we’re now very strong with our drone technology.

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

Russia+North Korea losses, 24 Feb 2022-26 Apr 2026:

1325650 personnel

11892 tanks
24463 APV
40711 artillery systems
1753 MLRS
1354 air defence systems
435 aircraft
350 helicopters
258091 UAVs
4579 cruise missiles
33 ships/boats
2 submarines
91582 vehicles
4136 special equipment

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.

Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.

George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.

The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.

No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.

A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.

The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.

The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

President Trump posted the sequence. “Our Military, the greatest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the World, hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants!” In his April 1st address he specified: “We are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard.” He has named the full list: power plants, oil wells, Kharg Island, desalination facilities. Five weeks of bombing, and the President says it was the opening act.

Here is the detail that every trader needs to read before the close. On March 26, Trump postponed power plant strikes to “Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 PM, Eastern Time.” That is Monday evening. Markets close today, Friday, and do not reopen until Monday morning. The deadline expires during the 63-hour trading closure. Brent crude surged past $109 today. When markets reopen, the first question every desk will answer is whether the power plants survived the weekend.

Here is what happens if they did not. Iran has roughly 70 gigawatts of installed capacity serving 88 million people. Destroying “each and every” generating plant produces a nationwide blackout. Hospitals lose refrigeration. Water treatment stops. Desalination halts in a country where summer temperatures exceed 50 degrees in the south. The distinction between military degradation and civilisational destruction does not survive the first transformer explosion.

And here is what happens if Trump executes the sequence and Iran activates its scorched-earth doctrine. The IRGC has explicitly stated that if the homeland faces destruction, “the Gulf will burn.” The doctrine is mutual assured economic destruction: mine the strait, burn oil wells, destroy Gulf refineries, demolish bridges. If Iran loses power, Kuwait loses refineries. If Iranian bridges fall, Abu Dhabi’s three island links follow. The Mina al-Ahmadi refinery was hit this morning for the second time in fifteen days. The eight-bridge target list was published yesterday. These are not hypothetical threats. They are early executions of a doctrine codified during the Iran-Iraq War.

Kharg Island handles 90 percent of Iran’s crude exports. Trump has named it. But if the power plants are destroyed first, Kharg becomes worthless without electricity to run pumps and loading terminals. Seizing an island that cannot export is not an asset capture. It is a denial operation. The crude stays underground. And Iran, already collecting tolls in yuan from every vessel that passes, has nothing left to lose. When you have nothing left, destruction costs nothing.

Trump has postponed this deadline twice before. March 21: a 48-hour ultimatum. March 23: a five-day pause citing “productive conversations” Iran denied took place. March 26: extended to April 6. Each extension bought time without resolution. If the pattern holds, it slips again. If the pattern breaks, the power plants burn and the Gulf burns with them.

Both sides have now published their target lists. Both target civilian infrastructure. Both have demonstrated willingness to execute: the Karaj bridge fell, the Kuwait refinery burned, the Abu Dhabi bridges are named. The molecule sits in a reservoir beneath a strait that neither side can open and neither side will concede. It does not care which civilisation blinks first.

April 6. Monday. 8 PM Eastern. The deadline the market cannot price because the market will be closed when it expires.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Pete Hegseth has fired twelve generals. Between them, five hundred years of military experience. Desert Storm. Iraq. Afghanistan. Gone. No reason given. In the middle of a war.

These weren’t pen-pushers. They were the men who actually know what a ground invasion of Iran looks like.

Perhaps they also know something else. That the man now running the Pentagon spent his career behind a Fox News desk rather than a command post. That his qualifications for managing the world’s most powerful military were, broadly speaking, strong opinions and good hair.

Funny how they’re exactly the ones Hegseth just removed.
Their replacements come with one qualification: complete loyalty to the vision.

Five hundred years of hard-won, blood-soaked knowledge. Shown the door by a television presenter.
What could possibly go wrong.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Jeff Nascimento @jnascim]

Netanyahu, Mojtaba Khamenei and Kim Jong-un meet at Sataf Café in Jerusalem

[simon parker 🇨🇦 @simonSAYSparker]

@RodKahx when Turkey is involved in a war, that's world war III

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Updated:

[Danny Wallace @dannywallace]

Board of Peace immediately bored of peace

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump (in 2011):

“Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective.”

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

Russia+North Korea losses, 24 Feb 2022-25 Feb 2026:

1262490 personnel

11701 tanks
24091 APV
37589 artillery systems
1655 MLRS
1305 air defence systems
435 aircraft
348 helicopters
146457 UAVs
4347 cruise missiles
29 ships/boats
2 submarines
79971 vehicles
4075 special equipment

[Prime Minister of Canada @CanadianPM]

The old order is not coming back.

Nostalgia is not a strategy.

From the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just.

Canada is choosing honesty, strength, and action.

That’s our path.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Music legend Bruce Springsteen just released this incredible song that will be sure to piss Trump off beyond belief.

“Streets of Minneapolis”.

He wrote this song about Alex Pretti and Renée Good Saturday and recorded it yesterday.

Share it far and wide and play it as loud as you can

[David Brown 🇨🇦💪 @OrbitStudios]

We’re gonna have to burn down the White House again, aren’t we?

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

They told us Democrats would turn America into a show-your-papers society.

They told us Democrats would strip away the Second Amendment.

They told us Democrats would jail us for what we say.

They told us Democrats would drag us into more foreign wars.

They told us Democrats would cover up a child sex trafficking ring.

And then Republicans took power and decided to do all of it themselves.

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

The First Nations of Alberta say NO to Putin puppet Trump and Trump puppet Danielle Smith. Indigenous people have treaty rights with the King of Canada that cannot be broken by any government.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump just threatened 100% tariffs on ALL Canadian goods.

Not 25%. Not 35%.

One hundred percent.

This is the most severe trade threat ever issued against a Five Eyes ally.

But here is what you are not being told:

Eight days ago, Mark Carney stood in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People and did something no Canadian PM had done in nine years.

He slashed Canada’s 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles to 6.1%.

He signed eight MOUs with Beijing.

He declared progress toward “the new world order.”

Four days ago, at Davos, Carney announced:

“The rules-based order is fading… is not coming back.”

Trump’s response today: “If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken.”

Note the word: “Governor.”

Here is what consensus is missing entirely:
USMCA Article 32.10. The “poison pill.”

This clause gives the United States the right to EXPEL Canada from the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement if Ottawa enters a free trade deal with a “non-market country.”

China is that country.

Canada just signed that deal.

Trump is not bluffing. He is triggering the clause that was designed for EXACTLY this scenario.

But go deeper.

In August 2019, Mark Carney stood at Jackson Hole and proposed replacing dollar dominance with a “Synthetic Hegemonic Currency.”

The exact phrase he used: “dampen the domineering influence of the US dollar on global trade.”

This is not a trade dispute.

This is a seven-year thesis being executed by a former Goldman Sachs partner who ran both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.

Carney is not improvising. He is implementing.

The strategic paradox Washington created:
Every action designed to force Canadian compliance is accelerating Canadian defection.

35% tariffs → Carney went to Beijing.

“51st state” threats → Carney signed eight MOUs.

USMCA declared “irrelevant” → Carney slashed EV tariffs.

100% tariff threat → Canada now has nothing left to lose.

The binding mechanism:

When you threaten economic annihilation against an ally, they do not become more compliant.

They become more diversified.

Trump did not push Canada toward China.

Trump DELIVERED Canada to China.

This is the signature failure mode of coercive hegemony.

It works until it does not.

And when it stops working, it accelerates the very outcome it sought to prevent.

49,000 Chinese EVs now enter Canada at 6.1%.

That quota represents a beachhead.

Within five years, over 50% must be priced under C$35,000.

That is BYD. That is Nio. That is CATL batteries.

That is “Fortress North America” with a Chinese door.

Watch CAD/USD.

Watch the USMCA review in July 2026.

Watch whether Mexico follows Canada’s template.

America is building the multipolar world it fears.

One ally at a time.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Carney releases a new video, saying the country’s economy is under threat from abroad and calling on Canadians to buy Canadian

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[World Insights @World_Insights1]

Canada federal election winners since 1920 :

🇨🇦 1921 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1925 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1926 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1930 → 🔵 Conservative Party
🇨🇦 1935 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1940 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1945 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1949 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1953 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1957 → 🔵 Progressive Conservative
🇨🇦 1958 → 🔵 Progressive Conservative
🇨🇦 1962 → 🔵 Progressive Conservative
🇨🇦 1963 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1965 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1968 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1972 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1974 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1979 → 🔵 Progressive Conservative
🇨🇦 1980 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1984 → 🔵 Progressive Conservative
🇨🇦 1988 → 🔵 Progressive Conservative
🇨🇦 1993 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 1997 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 2000 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 2004 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 2006 → 🔵 Conservative Party
🇨🇦 2008 → 🔵 Conservative Party
🇨🇦 2011 → 🔵 Conservative Party
🇨🇦 2015 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 2019 → 🔴 Liberal Party
🇨🇦 2021 → 🔴 Liberal Party