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Scotty

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    NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte just spills the beans live on air: "NATO is a platform for the United States to project power on the world stage."

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  • He said that, though out of context it has a different spin.

    Also, the original title is different from the one in this post here. It seems OP was looking for a sentence or two that supports a desired narrative, and the only thing they found was a video published by a right-wing media outlet.

    I don't support the Israel/US attack and don't like Rutte to say the least, but this here is another piece of OP's eternal anti-democratic, pro-China, pro-Russia propaganda stream.

  • NORAD detects and tracks Russian aircraft operating in the Alaskan and Canadian Air Defense Identification Zones

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  • I posted this in another thread, but it fits also here.

    Russia has been restoring its military presence in the Arctic. In the past decade, it has revitalized Soviet-era bases, deployed missile defense systems, invested in domain awareness capabilities, increased aerial and maritime patrols, and stepped up its exercise schedule.

    In response, NATO members and (the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Finland) increased their own regional military capabilities with a commensurate uptick in exercises, deployments, patrols, and capability investments.

    You can see some information in the Arctic Military Activity Tracker.

  • NORAD detects and tracks Russian aircraft operating in the Alaskan and Canadian Air Defense Identification Zones

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  • Russia has been restoring its military presence in the Arctic. In the past decade, it has revitalized Soviet-era bases, deployed missile defense systems, invested in domain awareness capabilities, increased aerial and maritime patrols, and stepped up its exercise schedule.

    In response, NATO members and (the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Finland) increased their own regional military capabilities with a commensurate uptick in exercises, deployments, patrols, and capability investments.

    You can see some information in the Arctic Military Activity Tracker.

  • Canada launches AI plant to challenge China’s rare earth grip

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  • I am just wondering why they don't do it in China where hundreds of workers in each plant are exposed to hazardous substances while manually adjusting valves and chemical flows, while the Canadian plant makes the process safer the workers and the environment.

    Seems Canada makes a major step in the right direction.

  • Canada launches AI plant to challenge China’s rare earth grip

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  • Call it whatever you want. Unlike in China, however, where hundreds of workers in each plant are exposed to hazardous substances while manually adjusting valves and chemical flows across large separation systems, the Canadian plant is safer for the workers and the environment.

    @Jhex@lemmy.world

  • Canada launches AI plant to challenge China’s rare earth grip

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  • In many Chinese plants, this work involves more than 200 workers manually adjusting valves and chemical flows across large separation systems.

    At the Saskatchewan facility, much of the process will instead be controlled by an AI-based operating system. The system continuously analyses thousands of data points and adjusts the process in real time.

  • Iranian‑Canadians reflect on freedom, change, and the fight for women’s rights

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  • More reactions by Iranian Canadians:

    ... “It's definitely a very bittersweet moment,” said Kimia Tehrani, an Iranian Canadian student and activist.

    “I think I'm incredibly happy that a dictator that has taken over my life and my country over the past 46 years has finally died," she said.

    “[But] I'm obviously very upset at the civilian lives that are at danger right now, I’m upset because my family is back home and I don't know what the future holds for them" ...

  • Carney pledges $2B for Ukraine, sanctions for Russian 'shadow fleet' as war enters 5th year

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  • @ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca

    So what's the people's ROI, and in what public form does it come in? A reliable healthcare system hopefully?

    Just a quick reminder that Russia, which is a dictatorship, has been attacking Ukraine and killed hundreds of thousand people, including civilians and children, abducted minors to 're-educate' them in military camps, and caused material damages in infrastructure and other property, and committed some 200,000 war crimes so far.

    And this is a tiny sample of what has been happening in Ukraine.

    Asking then for the "people's ROI" when Canada supports Ukraine reveals a abhorrent mindset.

    [Here](War crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)) is a more elaborated article.

  • Former Canadian Deputy PM Says China Benefits the Most From US-Canada Trade Spat, Warns We Should Be Skeptical of Commitments from Beijing

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  • Her remarks are absolutely accurate. She must know it because China tried to coerced Canada into a trade agreement via the Canada China Business Council, using Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig as sort of bargaining chips. Freeland was minister at the time.

    Canada is also a great supporter of Ukraine in its war against Russia. It doesn't make much sense to engage in a trade deal with China which is the single largest enabler of Moscow's war machine and provides the economic lifeline for Putin.

    It also contradicts Mark Carney's own warning from April 2025 that named China the "largest security threat" for Canada.

    Canada needs to diversify its trade. This trade deal with China is not diversification, though. It risks to become another dependence trap.

    @wampus@lemmy.ca

  • Former Canadian Deputy PM Says China Benefits the Most From US-Canada Trade Spat, Warns We Should Be Skeptical of Commitments from Beijing

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  • Canada's trade with EU countries and similar like-minded democracies in the Indo-Pacific is extremely low, there is a lot of potential. China will use any leverage in the future for political and economic coercion.

    If Canada engages in some sort of 'tit-for-tat' business, it's fair enough, but any trade deal will lead to unreasonably high risks for Canada's independence.

  • Former Canadian Deputy PM Says China Benefits the Most From US-Canada Trade Spat, Warns We Should Be Skeptical of Commitments from Beijing

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  • Canada's trade with EU countries and similar like-minded democracies in the Indo-Pacific is extremely low, there is a lot of potential. China will use any leverage in the future for political and economic coercion. China doesn't necessarily need an 'amphibious landing in Vancouver.'

  • Former Canadian Deputy PM Says China Benefits the Most From US-Canada Trade Spat, Warns We Should Be Skeptical of Commitments from Beijing

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  • China's reliability depends on China's government in the first place. It has nothing to do with the US nor anyone else. Beijing isn't becoming better because Washington -or anyone else- is getting worse. The danger for Canada doesn't come only from the south.

  • Canada FM Anand says ‘regime change’ in Iran would be required for restarting diplomatic ties

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  • Canada FM Anand says ‘regime change’ in Iran would be required for restarting diplomatic ties

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  • Nah, a vast majority of Iranians rejects the Islamic Republic. There are several independent surveys that prove that, as this one from 2024 said:

    ... The Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN), which conducted the survey in June 2024, said ...., "A majority of the population opposes the Islamic Republic and supports changing or transforming the political system." ... Support for the principles of the 1979 revolution and the Supreme Leader fell to 11 percent, down from 18 percent in 2022. By contrast, some 40 percent of participants said regime change was a precondition for reform, while another 24 percent favored a structural transition away from the current system.

    A clear majority of Iranians do not want the theocracy that came to power with the 1979 revolution. They want a secular democracy.

  • Indigenous-led clean energy projects could help clean up Canada's grid, say advocates

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  • Yeah, it's just important that these panels and batteries are produced in Canada and like-minded democratic allies rather than, say, China. It wouldn't make sense to become dependent on autocratic regimes.

  • ‘Chinese court rules against Xi’s tariffs’ and other headlines you won’t see [Opinion]

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  • Yet compare the American outcry and mass protests over these crackdowns to the Chinese response to the Uyghur genocide.

    @Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.work

  • ‘Chinese court rules against Xi’s tariffs’ and other headlines you won’t see [Opinion]

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  • The linked article makes very good points. A US court has ruled Trump's tariffs unlawful, while a Chinese court wouldn't rule against Xi's tariffs. Several US media still publish articles critical of Trump, but there are no article in Chinese media criticizing Xi. There is no doubt that despite Trump's decline into a dictatorship, China is far ahead in that respect.

    But as you're trying to ridicule the source without commenting on the content: what is a good source for China?

  • Canada FM Anand says ‘regime change’ in Iran would be required for restarting diplomatic ties

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  • Canada prepares an aid package for Cuba as it faces fuel shortages worsened by the US oil embargo. And Canada does and should stand with the Iranian people against an oppressive regime that has killed thousands in the last weeks.

    These are just two points of your comment that is misleading and in some parts outright wrong.

  • Canada FM Anand says ‘regime change’ in Iran would be required for restarting diplomatic ties

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  • For the Trump agenda? The Iranians have been (once again) fighting against their oppressive regime and demand a change.