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EU’s ability to defend against invasion remains in doubt, finds official report

The EU’s ability to respond to a foreign invasion by 2030 remains in doubt due to a continuing reliance on the US and fragmented national defence systems, according to a report from its official auditor.

The European court of auditors (ECA) said the EU was much better prepared than before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine of 2022, but achieving its goal of defence readiness by the end of the decade would be difficult.

“Achieving defence preparedness in the EU by 2030 remains challenging,” said Marek Opioła, an ECA member who led the review of the EU’s defence policy published on Thursday. “There are still major difficulties such as fragmented national systems or industrial bottlenecks. We also still rely on the United States.”

by Blazingcatfur•September 3, 2026September 3, 2026•0•European Union, USA

Terry Glavin: Carney recruiting Dominic Barton will please Xi Jinping

There has been no greater gift to the Liberal Party’s powerful pro-Beijing comprador caste than U.S. President Donald Trump’s exasperating bellicosity and exhausting trade-relations vandalism. Even after nearly a decade of scandals involving China’s Uyghur slave camps, its “hostage diplomacy,” mass espionage, intellectual property theft, forced corporate co-ventures and clandestine election-interference operations, by this summer the Pew Research Centre found that Canadians had come to view China more favorably than the United States.

You could say the American president can be thanked for that.

by Blazingcatfur•September 3, 2026September 2, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Canada’s Living-Standards Gap with US Has More Than Doubled This Century, Accelerating Since 2014: Report

The living standards gap between Canada and the United States has more than doubled over the past 25 years as Canada increasingly falls behind its southern neighbour, a new study suggests.

The steepest drop, however, occurred post-2014, according to a newly released report from the Fraser Institute.

Up until then, Canada maintained a comparable performance to the United States and, in some cases, even outperformed it across several indicators, said Fraser Institute director of fiscal studies Jake Fuss in the report he co-authored with senior policy analyst Grady Munro and senior economist Joel Emes.

by Blazingcatfur•September 3, 2026September 2, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA, WTF?

The military cheerleads a rifle designed by committee

In November of 2025, in The M7A1: a rifle by committee, I reported on the rough time the military’s new M7A1 rifle was having when tested by troops. The prototype was more than battle rifle heavy, and included a two-pound optic that tried to do everything but write home to mother. It had a suppressor that rapidly overheated, a folding stock, and two separate (?!) charging handles.

by Blazingcatfur•September 3, 2026September 2, 2026•0•Militaria, USA

U.S. Officials: Chinese Shipping Giant Uses Cargo Ships to Spy on Military Communications

China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO has secretly equipped commercial vessels with sophisticated technology to collect military communications near the United States and other countries, according to senior Trump administration officials.

Two U.S. officials told Reuters that COSCO has maintained a decades-long intelligence relationship with Beijing, allowing China to collect communications signals from ships and aircraft operating across North America, Europe and Asia.

The equipment aboard COSCO vessels consists of “sophisticated signals intelligence collection” systems rather than ordinary communications hardware, the officials said.

by Blazingcatfur•September 2, 2026September 2, 2026•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Espionage, USA

America’s Small Towns Are Being Attacked

Over the summer, a coordinated cyberattack targeted operational technology at more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota. The FBI later reported similar incidents in at least seven states. The ramifications were significant enough for Congress to get involved, prompting the introduction of the “Water Cyber Shield Act” last week, which would increase cybersecurity funding and empower the EPA to help prevent future attacks on water infrastructure.

by Blazingcatfur•September 2, 2026September 2, 2026•0•Cyber Jihad, Cyber War, USA

Trump is winning his war for oil while the whole world roots against him

President Donald Trump’s supposed weekslong war on Iran has now trudged into months, but while it’s hard to say whether he’s winning his war over the country’s suicidal dictatorship, it’s becoming increasingly clear that, against all odds and a concerted, anti-American psy-op, the White House is winning its war for oil independence.

In a narrative-defying note to investors, analysts at Goldman Sachs last week reported that oil flows through the Persian Gulf have risen to two-thirds of their pre-war levels, with 8 million to 10 million barrels per day of oil specifically transiting the Strait of Hormuz and another 7 to 8 million bpd circumventing the strait through U.S. Navy escorts, the Saudi East-West pipeline, and the UAE’s Fujairah pipeline. All in all, total oil and gas transit is up to 15 to 16 million bpd versus the March nadir of just 5 to 6 million bpd.

Venezuela’s oil fields will reportedly require an investment in the billions to rehabilitate neglected infrastructure. A decrease in the price at the pump is unlikely for some time.

by Blazingcatfur•September 2, 2026September 2, 2026•0•USA

A record 38% of Republicans say Canada is unfriendly or an enemy of the U.S.

President Donald Trump recently imposed a 50% tariff on many Canadian goods, a move most Americans are strongly or somewhat opposed to, the latest Economist/YouGov Poll finds. 58% of Americans are opposed to raising tariffs on goods imported from Canada, while only 26% support doing so.

by Blazingcatfur•September 2, 2026September 2, 2026•0•Canada, USA

Trump hailed after Canada poaches American academic ‘talent’ including professor of TRANSGENDER philosophy

President Donald Trump has been praised after it was revealed woke American professors are being poached by Canadian universities, including an academic who teaches transgender philosophy.

California State University philosophy professor, Talia Mae Bettcher, who is transgender, is among the many American-based educators who have packed their bags and headed north to Canada to become a part of the $541 million research funding project.

‘I knew I had to leave,’ Bettcher, who is a native Canadian but taught in Los Angeles, told The University of Waterloo, her new home.

by Blazingcatfur•September 2, 2026September 1, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA, WTF?

Joel Kotkin: Carney aligns with the anti-free speech China and EU

U.S. President Donald Trump’s much disliked visage will soon be passing, by biology or the Constitution, from screens. But it will take a bit for Canadians to ally openly with the United States, whatever the compelling geographic and economic reality.

Yet in their passion to dish on Trump, Canada seems to now align instead with China and the European Union. This shift could hasten Canada’s descent into its own authoritarian future. As a few leftist academics move to Canada to escape Trumpian proto-fascism, let’s look at how Canada’s new friends view free speech.

by Blazingcatfur•September 1, 2026September 1, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

HYSTERICAL: Oliver Darcy MELTS DOWN Over CBS Story on El-Sayed’s Deleted 9/11 Tweets

In their collective Trump Derangement, the Elitist Media will grab and hold on to anything they can in order to claw their way back to Regime Media in service of Democrats in power. Most egregious of these are the Hall Monitor subset, who will seemingly defend anyone and anything standing opposite a Republican.

by Blazingcatfur•September 1, 2026September 1, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islamization of the West, USA

400,000 California Voters Didn’t Provide Any ID at Registration

Because the state of California allows people to register online without providing any proof of identity, anyone could register to vote and under any name. Hundreds of thousands of people have done just that, and it once again raises the question of just how solid Democrat control in California would be without fraud.

by Blazingcatfur•September 1, 2026September 1, 2026•0•USA, WTF?

Immigration: Too Much of a Good Thing? Muslim Immigration: Too Much of a Bad Thing.

There is no universally agreed-upon number of immigrants who have entered and settled in the United States over the past 20 years. The number is typically described as “tens of millions,” with anywhere from 1-3 million entering each year, depending on the year.

Then you have illegal aliens, whose numbers are impossible to know. Then you have asylum seekers, who likely will become permanent residents, but not certainly.

by Blazingcatfur•September 1, 2026September 1, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Trump suggests he is reviewing US support for UK over Falkland Islands

Donald Trump has suggested he is reconsidering US support for Britain’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, in a move likely to strain the “special relationship” between Washington and London.

“I always review every position – that’s just one of many,” the US president told reporters in the White House, in response to a question about whether he was reviewing the US’s position over the South Atlantic islands, an archipelago whose status has long been disputed by Argentina, which claims sovereignty.

Officially, the US takes a neutral position on who has rightful sovereignty over the islands, which Britain first claimed in the late 17th century and has held almost continually since 1833. In practice, it recognizes British administration over the territory, which was the subject of an Argentinian invasion and subsequent military conflict with Britain in 1982.

by Blazingcatfur•September 1, 2026September 1, 2026•0•Argentina, UK, USA

AOC’s pivot for 2028 has begun. Will it work?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is jockeying for position ahead of her possible 2028 presidential bid and zeroing in on what is her biggest weakness: electability.

If she enters what is expected to be a crowded Democratic primary, Ocasio-Cortez would be the most well-known liberal in the field and would attract much of the support that backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the 2016 and 2020 Democratic primaries.

by Blazingcatfur•September 1, 2026September 1, 2026•0•USA