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@bordenstan.bsky.social
Canadian, Tory, somehow found my way onto Bluesky and am now trapped here. Interested in military history, COIN, foreign military training, jihadism, the KPA, and many others.
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In the spirit of promoting more Canadian mili thought and history, some book recommendations! First up, this one (surprisingly available in the UK too)! An examination of a Canadian victory which I believe has more lessons to teach than Vimy Ridge- covering everything from staff work to logistics.
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Noodling on something about how this is directly related to the Ethnonationalism But From The Left shit you see all the time. Can't imagine a world without racial hierarchy, so instead you just reverse it and make the white people half-devil and half-child.
February 10, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Noodling on something about how this is directly related to the Ethnonationalism But From The Left shit you see all the time. Can't imagine a world without racial hierarchy, so instead you just reverse it and make the white people half-devil and half-child.
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Our arrogance that *we* are the only ones with knowledge needs to be tamed and destroyed, not inverted so that only Magical Indians know anything about the land.
February 10, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Our arrogance that *we* are the only ones with knowledge needs to be tamed and destroyed, not inverted so that only Magical Indians know anything about the land.
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I know people in Canada doing joint research with First Nations bands and university agricultural sciences departments to experiment with climate-change resistant food crops and agroforestry. It's good shit, and this primitivist noble savage shit is so damaging.
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
I know people in Canada doing joint research with First Nations bands and university agricultural sciences departments to experiment with climate-change resistant food crops and agroforestry. It's good shit, and this primitivist noble savage shit is so damaging.
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What's very annoying about this stuff is that including indigenous communities in agricultural research is often quite helpful, given that their communities frequently have a different understanding of the land and what's usable.
February 10, 2026 at 1:29 AM
What's very annoying about this stuff is that including indigenous communities in agricultural research is often quite helpful, given that their communities frequently have a different understanding of the land and what's usable.
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Precisely. Indigenous peoples in the Americas did science before and after settlers showed up. Often they took useful things from the settlers and plugged them into their own systems, and vice versa. They were and are just people like everyone else, not magical stewards of the land.
February 10, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Precisely. Indigenous peoples in the Americas did science before and after settlers showed up. Often they took useful things from the settlers and plugged them into their own systems, and vice versa. They were and are just people like everyone else, not magical stewards of the land.
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it will also likely not be taken seriously by Democrats or even normie Republicans until it's too late
i think the biggest issue regarding the Alberta Crisis is that it's likely going to be the greatest threat to Canadian unity and sovereignty in the 21st century, and it's likely to have a lot of American influence, both hard and soft
so my prediction is the separatists probably get their referendum and then lose by a landslide and then whine to the Yankees about how the referendum was rigged
February 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
it will also likely not be taken seriously by Democrats or even normie Republicans until it's too late
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i think the biggest issue regarding the Alberta Crisis is that it's likely going to be the greatest threat to Canadian unity and sovereignty in the 21st century, and it's likely to have a lot of American influence, both hard and soft
so my prediction is the separatists probably get their referendum and then lose by a landslide and then whine to the Yankees about how the referendum was rigged
Alberta - Support For Independence:
All:
Remain: 65%
Independence: 29%
Among UCP Voters:
Independence: 57%
Remain: 38%
Among NDP Voters:
Remain: 93%
Independence: 6%
Angus Reid / Feb 6, 2026
All:
Remain: 65%
Independence: 29%
Among UCP Voters:
Independence: 57%
Remain: 38%
Among NDP Voters:
Remain: 93%
Independence: 6%
Angus Reid / Feb 6, 2026
February 9, 2026 at 6:20 PM
i think the biggest issue regarding the Alberta Crisis is that it's likely going to be the greatest threat to Canadian unity and sovereignty in the 21st century, and it's likely to have a lot of American influence, both hard and soft
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Should the worst-case outcome of the Alberta Crisis happen (separatists lose, get backed militarily by the US regardless) - what then?
i do wonder what the second-order effects of the Alberta Crisis will be
February 9, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Should the worst-case outcome of the Alberta Crisis happen (separatists lose, get backed militarily by the US regardless) - what then?
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It is true that in some places the police will, for instance, round you up and dump you on the steppe to die rather than disturb the look of the capital but I’m not sure this in an improvement.
February 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
It is true that in some places the police will, for instance, round you up and dump you on the steppe to die rather than disturb the look of the capital but I’m not sure this in an improvement.
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In China I was asked a few times whether it was true that if you went to the ER in the US they had to treat you even if you had no money.
February 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
In China I was asked a few times whether it was true that if you went to the ER in the US they had to treat you even if you had no money.
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I am struggling to think of any country this describes that doesn’t *also* let homeless people die on the street.
I've been to some countries where people live under military rule or autocracy. And without fail, one of the questions I get when they ask about life in the U.S. is whether it's true that Americans just let homeless people die on the street.
During freezing temperatures in Port Arthur, Texas, a 61-year-old homeless man was found dead in his wheelchair outside a convenience store.
He was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes. Authorities say he had been released from a hospital the previous day.
This is a diseased society.
He was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes. Authorities say he had been released from a hospital the previous day.
This is a diseased society.
February 9, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I am struggling to think of any country this describes that doesn’t *also* let homeless people die on the street.
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i like the yankees who talk like this when weed has been legal in canada since Trudeau
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
i like the yankees who talk like this when weed has been legal in canada since Trudeau
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Meanwhile, to relax and cheer you up, read my friend @edrusi.bsky.social 's latest piece on that other thing that might be even more relevant than Westminster Drama.
War.
War.
Latest for @rusi.bsky.social
If the PM has failed to start his own national conversation on defence in 18 months, why would his (potential) successor? Time is running out!
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
If the PM has failed to start his own national conversation on defence in 18 months, why would his (potential) successor? Time is running out!
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
The UK Whole of Society Defence and the Reality of Modern War
The national conversation must address society’s preparations to defend itself, reimagining the citizen solider of the 21st century, and every sector’s role in this effort.
www.rusi.org
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Meanwhile, to relax and cheer you up, read my friend @edrusi.bsky.social 's latest piece on that other thing that might be even more relevant than Westminster Drama.
War.
War.
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As I’ve mentioned before, Russians use UGVs on daily basis and we highly increased the amount of strikes against them. The most popular — «Courier».
And since the AFU with the help of @Starlink company cut their the most efficient connection — situation became worse for them.
And since the AFU with the help of @Starlink company cut their the most efficient connection — situation became worse for them.
February 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
As I’ve mentioned before, Russians use UGVs on daily basis and we highly increased the amount of strikes against them. The most popular — «Courier».
And since the AFU with the help of @Starlink company cut their the most efficient connection — situation became worse for them.
And since the AFU with the help of @Starlink company cut their the most efficient connection — situation became worse for them.
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Can’t promise that everyone will find absolutely everything I have to say about the UK positive and kind, but I hope it is fair. And here is the first sentence of the book.
"Feeling at home in more than one place is not very fashionable these days."
"Feeling at home in more than one place is not very fashionable these days."
If it's full of positive and kind comments on this wretched country I think I will break down in tears
February 9, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Can’t promise that everyone will find absolutely everything I have to say about the UK positive and kind, but I hope it is fair. And here is the first sentence of the book.
"Feeling at home in more than one place is not very fashionable these days."
"Feeling at home in more than one place is not very fashionable these days."
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Ah we're at the "cabinet ministers tweeting the same message of support" stage of the endgame.
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Ah we're at the "cabinet ministers tweeting the same message of support" stage of the endgame.
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FSB putting the word out on the street it costs less than a Kia Sorento to murder the deputy head of the GRU
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 PM
FSB putting the word out on the street it costs less than a Kia Sorento to murder the deputy head of the GRU
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Obviously not the most important thing here, but damn that kid can draw. Maybe a publisher can get them to draw a comic book about their time there as an awareness raising thing if they aren’t too traumatized to relieve it. Like Maus, Persepolis, that sort of thing.
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Obviously not the most important thing here, but damn that kid can draw. Maybe a publisher can get them to draw a comic book about their time there as an awareness raising thing if they aren’t too traumatized to relieve it. Like Maus, Persepolis, that sort of thing.
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only $30k to clack the first deputy of the GRU is a fucking BARGAIN. that’s mattress warehouse prices. that’s the ashley’s furniture of hitters
Russia's FSB, trickling out new purported details of the alleged attackers of GRU Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev: the shooter was recruited by Ukraine's SBU last Aug.; was trained at a Kyiv shooting range; was promised $30K. His accomplice was allegedly a Navalny supporter. (caveat lector etc.)
February 9, 2026 at 7:08 AM
only $30k to clack the first deputy of the GRU is a fucking BARGAIN. that’s mattress warehouse prices. that’s the ashley’s furniture of hitters
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This looks like a fascinating conference about games and conflict. #wargaming
Register here: gamesofwar.ug.edu.pl/programme/
Register here: gamesofwar.ug.edu.pl/programme/
February 9, 2026 at 2:13 PM
This looks like a fascinating conference about games and conflict. #wargaming
Register here: gamesofwar.ug.edu.pl/programme/
Register here: gamesofwar.ug.edu.pl/programme/
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Somehow completely missed this. This sounds absolutely horrific but Drukpa Kunley is a terrible human being is not exactly news.
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Somehow completely missed this. This sounds absolutely horrific but Drukpa Kunley is a terrible human being is not exactly news.
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The incentives to treat this as a blip to just be ridden out are unbelievably powerful in the business world (I suspect partially because it provides better rhetorical cover for knuckling under and licking boot than "I am a coward" or "I actually like Donald Trump")
February 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
The incentives to treat this as a blip to just be ridden out are unbelievably powerful in the business world (I suspect partially because it provides better rhetorical cover for knuckling under and licking boot than "I am a coward" or "I actually like Donald Trump")
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i am not looking forward to the Alberta Crisis
February 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
i am not looking forward to the Alberta Crisis
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God, so many of these guys are going to be professional antisemites for the rest of their lives.
The degree to which these people should be locked in an asylum cannot be overstated
February 9, 2026 at 2:57 AM
God, so many of these guys are going to be professional antisemites for the rest of their lives.