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Sneaky buggers .... https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260414-russian-ship-sanctions-delivered-armoured-vehicles-mali

Not since late last year. https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_relations-relations_internationales/un-onu/new-york-rep.aspx?lang=eng

Appears to be. https://unwatch.org/outrage-at-un-democracies-enable-iran-china-cuba-to-oversee-human-rights-bodies/ https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-secures-un-role-backing-from-uk-france-canada-australia-us-stands-alone Meanwhile, first one through ...

Different types of not great.

Strange bedfellows ... https://istories.media/en/stories/2026/03/21/lana/

Team USSR 2.0: Gov't says Hungarian people have spoken, those on the leash say this'll speed up the end of the EU. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/13/moscow-warns-of-perfect-storm-for-eu-after-orbans-defeat-in-hungary-a92486

Not exactly "elected", but QC has a new premier following a CAQ leadership vote: https://montreal.citynews.ca/2026/04/13/christine-frechette-quebec-premier/ https://montreal.citynews.ca/2026/04/13/frechettes-caq-pq-pitch-nationalist-voters/...

So far, only some Indian media (sometimes also known for amplifying less-than-fully-confirmed info/disinfo/misinfo) quoting the good Admiral that way .... https://www.businesstoday.in/world/story/dont-meddle-in-our-affairs-china-backs-iran-as-us-begins-hormuz-blockade-525363-2026-04-13...

Quick thumbs up from PMMC Likely mostly the ones in Cyrillic script, no doubt ...

Wonder why the link's no longer working anymore as of this post (131524E Apr) - shame nothing really disappears from the interwebs.

Well, it appears POTUS47's .... cooling a bit on Big Catholic Inc. .... ... while Big Catholic Inc. seems to be taking it in stride ... https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-04/pope-on-board-plane-to-algeria-i-am-not-a-politician.html...

With only two of the three leaving said room -- eventually.

While I agree that the CO who knows of fucksters in the battalion and seems to do nothing about them is bad, we'll have to agree to disagree on the badness of the CO who refuses to hear about any potential fucksters in the battalion so he can remain "willfully ignorant" AND not have to explain...

And a very different approach to acceptance (or more specifically non-acceptance) of migrants when most of the rest of Europe was accepting them.

That’s only part of the job according to PP on JR - the other part is to be the “government in waiting.” Lotsa politicians would be good at attack dogging, but not so many at the latter bit. Michelle RG impresses me in interviews, Peter M would be good if he decided to come back (although I...

Agreed, but … … I can’t remember seeing the “None so blind as those who will not see” principle in any list of good political leadership traits, either.

Slightly different wishbone question: is knowing and not acting on problems better or worse than choosing not to know problems and not being able to act?

Moved the Orban-election posts to the new thread in play. Army.ca Staff

Didn't help as much as JD may have hoped ;)

Because the Russians wanted the anti-Russia candidate in charge? This from last year ... https://www.politico.eu/article/orbans-challenger-accuses-russia-meddling-hungary-politics-peter-magyar/ Well, from VERY early results, seems the system is working, but that's the funny thing about false...