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Decades of federal overreach, of historical revision, have strained the founding promise of Confederation. Our economic and democratic grievances in Alberta and the West are real, and I’m encoded with the political DNA of fighting for Alberta and the West.
Never have I seen an argument won with condescension. In a world of disruption, our federation must mature to meet this moment, with a strong Alberta as a full partner in Confederation, and a united Canada confident in its future.
I had a chance to discuss this in Washington DC at the @HudsonInstitute, in conversation with @Matt_Boyse.
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"Russian experience in its war against Ukraine is of exceptional strategic, tactical, and operational value to Communist China," @Matt_Boyse told @DailyCaller.
"Beijing has been building up its military for decades but, despite its massive capabilities, has not fought a hot war since 1979 and its military lacks battlefield experience, especially in the most modern forms of warfare, which it can only get from Russia."
Read Boyse's full comments on how the DoW should respond to the changing threat environment: dailycaller.com/2026/10/12/c…
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Es gibt noch nicht mal eine neue Regierung, kein einziges Problem des Bundeslandes wurde angegangen, aber die neuen Herrscher wollen als aller erstes Russlands Interessen in Deutschland umsetzen.
Egal, warum die Menschen diese Parteien wählen – DAS ist ihr primärer Daseinsgrund.
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.@SecRubio: "The things we owe to this place as Americans — and as Westerners — are actually far, far deeper... What blossomed here in this place was the Western desire to uncover all that ignorance, darkness, and distance had kept hidden from the mind of man."
.@SecRubio in Athens: "For thousands of years, the civilizations that built what stands behind me have captivated the imagination of the Western world."
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GIS expert Matt Boyse @Matt_Boyse in December 2025 predicted that, barring a major turn of events in Ukraine and Russia, the security environment in the broader Black Sea region would likely deteriorate further. That has been confirmed by attacks on commercial vessels in the sea. On October 6, 2026, two commercial vessels were struck and sunk by drones in the first attack on shipping in NATO member Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said it was an unacceptable attack and a blatant violation of international and maritime law.
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Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of treason and accused of selling state secrets to a foreign power ft.trib.al/urgwtQt
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Putins Strategie
Putin sprach am 1. Oktober 2026 beim Waldai-Forum 3:20 Stunden lang in einer Rede und in einem moderierten Gespräch auf der Bühne. Aus seinen ausschweifenden Formulierungen lassen sich fünf zentrale Punkte seiner Strategie herauslesen:
1. Angriff ist Verteidigung
Putins zentrale Meta-Strategie und sein oberstes Ziel ist die Umdeutung jeder russischer Aggression in defensive Notwendigkeit. Putin behauptet, Russland reagiere lediglich auf westliche Angriffe oder Provokationen.
Diese Erzählung ist das Fundament seiner gesamten Politik:
· Putin rechtfertigt den Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine als Verteidigung gegen den aggressiven Westen.
· Putin stimmt die russische Bevölkerung auf eine dauerhafte Konfrontation ein.
· Putin stellt jede russische Eskalation in der Vergangenheit und in der Zukunft als „Antwort“ dar, nie als russische Initiative.
Damit schafft Putin einen ideologischen Rahmen, der seine geopolitischen Ziele verdeckt und moralisch absichert.
2. Kein europäisches Russland, sondern ein russisches Europa
Putin strebt eine europäische Sicherheitsordnung an, in der Russland ein Vetorecht über alle Entscheidungen zur Sicherheit Europas besitzt.
Putin beschreibt den Westen als illegitim und regelbrechend. Hinter dieser Rhetorik stehen strategische Ziele:
· Die NATO schwächen, insbesondere die Ostflanke.
· Die EU politisch spalten und wirtschaftlich destabilisieren.
· Mittelosteuropa wieder in eine russische Einflusszone ziehen.
· Russland in Europa als überlegene Macht etablieren.
Putins Forderung nach „weniger westlicher Dominanz“ ist kein Ruf nach einer fairen Balance. Es ist der Versuch, eine neue russische Dominanz aufzubauen, nachdem Moskau seine Vormachtstellung nach 1991 verloren hat.
3. Die Ukraine ist Russland
Putins Ziele in der Ukraine sind sehr weitgehend. Hinter der Forderung nach „Neutralität“ verbirgt sich der Dreiklang aus: keine NATO, keine EU, keine westliche Orientierung.
Putin will dauerhafte territoriale Kontrolle über große Teile der Ukraine, auch über bisher nicht eroberte Gebiete. Putin will vollständige politische Kontrolle über eine Ukraine, die nicht souverän im eigenen Interesse handeln kann, sondern bei jeder Entscheidung die russischen Interessen vorzieht.
Putins Aussage, die Ukraine könne „nicht existieren“ und werde „von außen kontrolliert“, ist eine klassische rhetorische Figur, um die Ukraine zu delegitimieren. Das soll die Grundlage für eine dauerhafte russische Einflussnahme schaffen.
4. Beihilfe zur Selbstabschreckung (alles für Kaliningrad)
Putin versucht, die russische Bereitschaft zur Eskalation bis hin zu Atomwaffen als bedauerlicherweise notwendige Verteidigung darzustellen. Damit verfolgt er einen militärstrategischen Zweck. Putin weiß, dass eine NATO-Verteidigung des Baltikums gegen einen russischen Angriff zwingend die Ausschaltung der Luftverteidigung, Raketenstellungen und militärischen Infrastruktur im hochgerüsteten Kaliningrad erfordern würde.
Die russische Exklave Kaliningrad ist der am stärksten militarisierte Raum Europas, vollgestopft mit Luftabwehr, Raketen, elektronischer Kampfführung. Eine NATO-Verteidigung des Baltikums und des Ostseeraums würde Kaliningrad massiv treffen müssen.
Deshalb versucht Putin rhetorisch:
· die Logik der Verteidigung der NATO als „Aggression“ umzudeuten,
· die politische Bereitschaft Europas zur Verteidigung der Nordostflanke zu schwächen,
· die Verteidigung des Baltikums als „Eskalation“ darzustellen,
· die Schwelle für westliche Gegenmaßnahmen gegen russische Aggressionen im Baltikum und im Ostseeraum zu erhöhen.
Putins Drohungen und sein vages Herumwedeln mit Atomwaffen sollen die NATO davon abhalten, ihre eigene Verteidigungsstrategie konsequent umzusetzen, weil wichtige NATO-Mitgliedsstaaten in Selbstabschreckung verfallen.
5. Wirtschaft als Waffe
Putin präsentiert die russische Wirtschaft als „stabil“ und „resilient“. Erkennbar ist Wirtschaftspolitik ist für Putin kein Instrument zur Verbesserung der Lebensqualität der russischen Bevölkerung, sondern ein geopolitisches Werkzeug.
Putin spricht nicht über menschliche Verluste, soziale Kosten und wirtschaftliche Schäden seines Krieges. Verarmung, demografische Krise und Abwanderung von Fachkräften kommen bei ihm nicht vor.
Für Putin ist die russische Wirtschaft ein Druckmittel gegen Europa, eine Kriegsressource und ein Mittel zum Aufrechterhalten seines Regimes.
Putin spricht über Wirtschaft als Machtressource des russischen Staates, nicht als Lebensgrundlage russischer Menschen.
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In aller Kürze: Putin will, dass Russland eine europäische Ordnung dominiert, in der die Ukraine dauerhaft unterworfen ist und in der Moskau Einflusszonen kontrolliert. Die russische Aggressivität bis hin zu Angriffskriegen wird dabei als Verteidigung dargestellt.
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Whatever happens in Washington or the world, Canada should be building the strength to act in our own interests: secure borders, a capable military, a sovereign Arctic, and markets everywhere.
A strong Canada is an asset to our allies. Our ambition should be a capable Canada, never a compliant one.
At @HudsonInstitute, I joined @Matt_Boyse to discuss the Canada–U.S. relationship, the pressures facing Canadians, and the path forward between our two countries.
Watch the full exchange here: youtube.com/live/KicKxh5zakw…
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Relations between the United States and Canada are at their worst in generations.
Watch live as @Matt_Boyse and Canadian Shadow Minister @shuvmajumdar discuss the bilateral relationship and potential paths forward.
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Russian forces conducted a drone strike mere kilometers from the Ukrainian-Polish border near the Yahodyn border crossing for the second time in September 2026. Poland announced its intent to change its air defense rules of engagement following the strike.
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The Assassin's Mace: How Canada Became China's Weapon to Conquer America
While fictional, the book examines how Canada's national security, IT and financial infrastructure have been compromised by China. Who will defend Canada if the government does not do it?
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German investigators have linked a fire in Munich to Russian intelligence, marking the second suspected Russian sabotage operation in Germany within a month. On September 3, incendiary devices were thrown from a passing car at a construction site near the offices of defense companies Rohde & Schwarz and Helsing. Investigators believe Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, was behind the attack, as in the attempted bombing at Leipzig Airport.
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The #Gdańsk shipyard should have thundered with 10,000 workers. Instead, Bogdan heard “deafening quiet”—then saw columns of strikers marching as the movement that became #Solidarity began.
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🚨 Slovenia’s PM at the UN: Executions in Iran need serious condemnation
@JJansaSDS is one of the very few leaders at UNGA to name the wave of executions in Iran.
Talking about double standards he said:
“Executions, including those involving political prisoners, young intellectuals and others who oppose the regime, demand serious attention. Yet there is often no sufficiently serious condemnation of these executions or of the broader violations of human rights.”
24 September.
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Today, the House passed my Foreign Service Modernization Act.
Our diplomats are on the front lines of advancing American interests and protecting our national security around the world. This bipartisan legislation updates the Foreign Service for 21st-century challenges by strengthening recruitment and training, expanding support for diplomats serving overseas, increasing pathways for veterans to join the Foreign Service, and more.
The Foreign Service Act hasn’t received a comprehensive review since 1980. It’s time to modernize how our diplomatic corps operates. I look forward to working to get this legislation across the finish line in the Senate.
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More suspected Russian terrorism, this time in Spain.
Spanish police have dismantled a massive illegal weapons operation allegedly led by a Russian national with military experience, who investigators say used his weapons expertise to convert blank-firing and trauma weapons into lethal firearms.
Police seized 644 weapons, silencers and thousands of rounds of ammunition from the network, including a clandestine armory hidden in a Girona storage facility.
The weapons were allegedly distributed to criminal networks involved in drug trafficking and kidnappings. Searches were also carried out in Badajoz and Valencia.
Another Russian military connection at the center of a dangerous weapons network uncovered inside Europe.
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I’m shocked by the number of university administrators and professors who have no idea that the SAT is a completely different test from what they remember 20 years ago.
There are no longer any analogies on the SAT, literally not one. Think about that. The kind of question designed to test a student’s ability to connect ideas, which is the definition of thinking, has been removed. What does that tell you? Additionally, reading passages are now 25–120 words, roughly the size of a tweet (actually way shorter than this tweet!). They have also removed all logic questions from the math section and given students a calculator.
Were the California professors clamoring to reinstate the SAT aware of these changes? With reading passages as short as 25 words, the SAT has abandoned even trying to test whether a student is able to focus their attention for more than a few minutes.
When the two main college entrance exams become shells of what they once were, it undermines all of higher education. I believe this is why many of the most serious academic institutions in the country now either accept or favor the CLT. At West Point, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy, we aren’t just an option; we have been declared the “gold standard” by the Secretary of War. This movement is already reshaping the educational track students aspiring to attend our top service academies are taking in high school. Add to this our early-adopter institutions, such as Hillsdale, the University of Dallas, and Thomas Aquinas College, for whom the CLT has become the main college entrance exam.
By the end of the day, we really do need your help to fully replace the SAT. Many individuals love what we are doing, but when it comes to their own children, they choose the easier tests (SAT and ACT) to maximize admissions and scholarship opportunities. I get it, but I ask you to embrace the challenge instead and help us restore academic excellence. The future of our republic depends on it!
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The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has risen to prominence because established parties have struggled to address growing nationwide political pressure.
Christopher Caldwell writes in @firstthingsmag to explain why Germany’s most controversial political party is winning, despite the government’s efforts to silence and ban the party.
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Karl Marx – The Man.
You know him as the author of the Manifesto.
But behind the manifesto there was a man – an envious, deceitful and lazy one – constitutionally averse to productive work. The theory is just a result of that. It is the man, elevated into a system.
Do you recognize any of this in the socialists and communists around you? Read on.
1. His father Heinrich was a hardworking lawyer from Trier who wrote his son letters in the tone of a man watching a slow-motion disaster he cannot stop. Not angry – exhausted. "Is your heart in accord with your head, your talents?" he wrote in 1837. "Is that demon heavenly or Faustian? Will you ever be capable of truly human, domestic happiness?" The tone was like: "My heart often sinks when I think of you and your future." The despairing correspondence of a disciplined, hardworking man who cannot understand what is wrong with his brilliant, promising, and comprehensively useless son. A loving father watching his brilliant son consume money, accumulate debts, drink heavily as a student, produce poetry of remarkable mediocrity, and demonstrate a comprehensive inability to translate intelligence into anything useful. A father asking his clever son whether he is a visionary or a catastrophe. The answer turned out to be both. Heinrich died before seeing the full scope of the disappointment. He was spared the Manifesto.
2. He never worked. The foundational fact about the man who devoted his life to the theory of labor. For most of his adult life he was kept by Friedrich Engels – son of a factory owner, manager of a Manchester textile mill – who spent his days doing the precise capitalist management the theory condemned, so that Marx could theorize about it in comfort. Engels also paid the rent, covered the debts, funded the cigars, and at one point claimed paternity of Marx’s illegitimate child – born to the family’s unpaid servant – to protect his friend’s reputation. The servant was not paid. The child was not acknowledged. The theory of "liberation" was produced in conditions of domestic exploitation that would have embarrassed a Victorian mill owner. If you remember Rousseau you’ll notice a pattern here…
3. Helene Demuth – cooked, cleaned, raised the Marx children, and managed the household through decades of poverty that was chronic not because of capitalism but because Marx could not hold a job and would not try. Her specific working-class life was spent in unpaid service to the man theorizing about her liberation. He did not liberate her. He did not pay her. He fathered her child, denied it, and let Engels take the blame. The secret held until after both men were dead. Engels confessed on his deathbed.
4. The debts are almost comic. In one year at university he spent 700 talers – his father noted with incredulous precision that "the richest spend less than 500." Expelled from Belgium, France, and Prussia. Ended up in London, stateless, in damp apartments, pawning the family silver, writing to Engels for money with the regularity of a man who has made extracting funds from a friend into an art form. Several of his children died young in conditions produced by his inability to earn. Marx noted the deaths in letters and continued the manuscript.
5. The envy is the key to everything. A brilliantly clever man who felt the world had not given him his due – who watched others succeed and experienced their success as an offense requiring theoretical explanation. The result: the most sophisticated intellectual expression of resentment ever produced. A complete systematic account of why the successful are guilty, why their success is stolen, and why the man who has not succeeded is the true repository of value. A theory of envy with footnotes. Nietzsche called this ressentiment. He was describing the same type, from a different angle, at roughly the same time.
6. He died in 1883. Eleven people attended the funeral. Engels compared him to Darwin – generous, since Darwin spent twenty years accumulating evidence before publishing and Marx spent twenty years accumulating debt. His wife had died two years earlier, exhausted. His servant had spent a lifetime unpaid. His illegitimate son grew up unacknowledged. The Manifesto was by then on its way to inspiring experiments that would kill approximately a hundred million people.
7. The Manifesto was not written from the bottom. It was written by a clever man funded by a factory owner’s son, who had never done a day of proletarian labor, who exploited the people closest to him, whose father despaired of him, and whose considerable talents were deployed entirely in explaining why the world owed him more than it had given. Look around you. The envious intellectual who has never built anything but knows exactly what is wrong with everything others have built. The "man of the people" who cannot manage his own affairs. The revolutionary funded by the people he condemns. You have met this person. You may have voted for him.
From Plato to Bernie and AOC – A Brief History of Communism
Twenty-four centuries, one idea. It always starts the same way and always ends the same way.
1. Plato, 380 BC. The world is badly made, the wise should redesign it, and the rulers may lie to the people for their own good – he called it the noble lie. Property abolished among the guardians, the family abolished with it. Everything since is a version of it, with progressively worse writing and progressively higher body counts.
2. The millenarian sects. Property abolished, the chosen in charge, purification required – a thousand years before capitalism existed. The idea needs no economy to appear.
3. Rousseau, 1762. Man is good, institutions corrupt him, so institutions must be remade. The General Will – the collective desire of the people, which the correct leader can identify and implement regardless of what individual people actually want. The philosophical foundation of every subsequent revolution that murdered people in the name of their own liberation. Whoever refuses to obey shall be forced to be free. Rousseau personally abandoned all five of his children to the orphanage. He wrote extensively about the correct upbringing of children. This is a pattern.
4. Kant and Hegel. Kant splits the world as we see it from the world as it is. Hegel adds that history is going somewhere. Together they supply the phrase that ends every argument: the wrong side of history.
5. 1789, French Revolution. The idea gets a country. Virtue is the goal, and virtue turns out to need enforcement. Four years from liberation to the guillotine and the Terror.
6. Marx, 1848. The same idea in a scientific costume – now you weren’t arguing for it, you were reading the future. Written by a man who had never worked in a factory, funded by a man who owned one.
7. Lenin, 1917. The vanguard party: a small group of professionals who know what the workers need better than the workers do. Delivered to Russia in a sealed train by a German general who wanted Russia out of the war. He got that, and more.
8. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot. What it looks like when it wins. Terror as government, and a lie so complete that people lost the ability to tell what they thought from what they had to say. Tens of millions dead in China, a quarter of the population in Cambodia. Not a deviation. The same premise, applied with enthusiasm. Collectivization, the gulag, the Great Leap, the killing fields – roughly a hundred million dead in one century. Each time preceded by intellectuals explaining why this time would be different.
9. The Frankfurt School. The workers in the West refused to revolt, so the explanation changed: the problem is cultural, and Western civilization itself is the oppressor and has to be deconstructed. Everything to be criticized, nothing to be built.
10. Gramsci, Spinelli, Dutschke and 1968. Don’t storm the parliament – get a job in the editorial office. Power in the West rests on consent, and consent is made in schools and newspapers – so take those instead. The long march through the institutions. The generation that failed in the streets became the professors, editors and judges. It worked, which is why elections now change the government but not the direction.
1989 – the system collapses, the archives opened, and in the Western universities almost nobody changed their mind. A faith, not a theory.
11. Bernie and AOC. Same idea, new clothes, and nobody left who has read the source material. Free everything, paid for by the billionaires. Honeymooned in the Soviet Union in 1988 – three years before it collapsed – and came back impressed. Three houses. Net worth in the millions of dollars. Democratic socialists. The reasoning is Plato’s, the aesthetic is TikTok.
From Plato to Bernie and AOC: Even communism isn’t immune to decay…
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12. The lie is not a side effect. It is the system.
13. Where truth is handed out instead of found, anyone who insists on finding it is in the way.
14. It survives because it protects positions, not beliefs. Ask who is best for the job and every protected position is at risk. Ask who belongs in the room and the same people stay in it for life.
15. The managerial class is the nomenklatura. Same selection, same script, same immunity to results. Only the letterhead changed.
16. Where everything needs permission, permission becomes the currency – and whoever knows the apparatus rules, whoever wins the election.
17. Silence is not ignorance. It is knowledge plus a calculation: speaking costs everything, silence is free.
18. Underneath, it runs on two fuels: envy and fear. Envy supplies the motive – someone else has what you don’t, and the system promises to take it. Fear supplies the compliance – everyone can see what happens to those who say the wrong thing. Neither has anything to do with justice, and neither ever built anything.
19. The idea never learns, because the error is not in the implementation. It is in the premise: that the "wise" can plan the lives of the many better than the many can plan their own.
20. The answer is not a better plan for society. It is refusing to let anyone hold the pen.
Reality is not negotiable. Say so out loud, build things that work, and hand them to your children.
Tell the truth. Have courage. And build.
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⏪ ICYMI: @Matt_Boyse sat down with @MartinCSDEnergy, Katie Strangis, @StephenComello, and Victor Ibarra for a conversation on how enhanced transatlantic cooperation on advanced nuclear technologies, fuel-cycle resilience, and next-generation energy infrastructure can reinforce European industrial competitiveness and long-term energy security.
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