📢 🇨🇦 ♀️ 'We have to get ready for large-scale conflicts,' says Canada's military chief

As well as being the first woman to lead Canada's armed forces, General Jennie Carignan is also in command as her country pushes to rearm on a scale not seen since the Cold War.

This includes expanding the full-time military, bolstering the number of reservists and attempting to get up to 300,000 civilians to join a "strategic reserve" - a pool of people with some form of training that could be called upon in the event of a major crisis.

"The world has changed," General Carignan told Sky News. "We have to get ready for large-scale conflicts, more conventional, so we need a different military to do that and different capability."

A need to protect vital interests is one reason why Mark Carney's Canadian government is exploring the possibility of joining a multinational force of like-minded nations led by the UK, with a focus on this region as well as the Baltic Sea and North Atlantic.

"I think I'm here today because Canada decided to remove systemic barriers in our military 40 years ago," she said, when asked how she broke through that glass ceiling.

As for the main challenges that she faced along the way, the military chief said: "Perceptions. Perceptions that women are weak, perceptions that you can't be in a combat role and be a mother at the same time.

"I'm sure there will be [more female military chiefs] because it's totally possible and NATO allies are removing systemic barriers as well, and it's only a question of time."

https://news.sky.com/story/we-have-to-get-ready-for-large-scale-conflicts-says-canadas-military-chief-13530556

📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Vance on Iran: "The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement... We go back to the United States having not come to an agreement."

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📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Vance: "We leave here with a very simple proposal. A method of understanding that is our final and best offer. We'll see if the Iranians accept it."

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📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. has not yet seen a clear commitment from Iran to forgo developing a nuclear weapon or the tools for such a weapon.

📎 Kassy Akiva

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 BREAKING: There will not be a second day of talks

IRIB: ‘The American enemy, which is vile, wicked and dishonest — attempted to achieve on the negotiating table what it could not achieve through war.

Among these demands are handing over enriched uranium and opening the Strait of Hormuz without confirmed Iranian sovereignty over it.

Iran has decided to reject these terms and continue the holy defense of its fatherland by any means necessary, military or diplomatic.’

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‘Iran has decided to reject our demands’ – J.D. Vance

This here is exactly the problem with America. They demand, they impose, they enforce. They do not ‘negotiate’. They are not a good faith actor.

Iran won’t accept bullying. It will fight the Zionist-American alliance for another 10 years if it has to.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇵🇰/🇮🇷 NEW: According to another informed source, one of the issues was America’s unwillingness to compel Israel to an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon

The U.S. merely convinced Israel to stop strikes in Beirut while ‘gradually expanding’ to include southern Lebanon and the rest of the country. Iran did not agree to this.

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📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump orders the U.S. Navy to blockade the Strait of Hormuz to "any and all ships trying to enter, or leave." Also instructing the U.S. Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran: "No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas."

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📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump on Truth Social:

IRAN IS UNWILLING TO GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS!

IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!

Iran promised to open the Strait of Hormuz, and they knowingly failed to do so. This caused anxiety, dislocation, and pain to many people and Countries throughout the World. They say they put mines in the water, even though all of their Navy, and most of their “mine droppers,” have been completely blown up. They may have done so, but what ship owner would want to take the chance? There is great dishonor and permanent harm to the reputation of Iran, and what’s left of their “Leaders,” but we are beyond all of that. As they promised, they better begin the process of getting this INTERNATIONAL WATERWAY OPEN AND FAST! Every Law in the book is being violated by them. I have been fully debriefed by Vice President JD Vance, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, on the meeting that took place in Islamabad through the kind and very competent leadership of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan. They are very extraordinary men, and continuously thank me for saving 30 to 50 million lives in what would have been a horrendous War with India. I always appreciate hearing that — The amount of Humanity spoken of is incomprehensible.

The meeting with Iran began early in the morning, and lasted throughout the night — Close to 20 hours. I could go into great detail, and talk about much that has been gotten but, there is only one thing that matters — IRAN IS UNWILLING TO GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS! In many ways, the points that were agreed to are better than us continuing our Military Operations to conclusion, but all of those points don’t matter compared to allowing Nuclear Power to be in the hands of such volatile, difficult, unpredictable people. My three Representatives, as all of this time went by, became, not surprisingly, very friendly and respectful of Iran’s Representatives, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Abbas Araghchi, and Ali Bagheri, but that doesn’t matter because they were very unyielding as to the single most important issue and, as I have always said, right from the beginning, and many years ago, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!


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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: ‘Iran’s nuclear program has survived, and Iran likely retains substantial uranium enrichment capability at deeply buried underground sites’ – WSJ

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📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump: "We didn't get there on the important issue. They want to have nuclear weapons. They're not going to have nuclear weapons."

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📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump: "It’s called all in, and all out... We think that numerous countries are going to be helping us with this also, but we’re putting on a complete blockade. We’re not going to let Iran make money on selling oil to people that they like, and not people that they don’t like or whatever it is. It’s going to be all or none."

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "I was thinking about calling it the Gulf of Trump, and I decided not to do it. I think that one maybe wouldn't have worked out. I'm not so sure. But I was thinking about it's gonna be called the Gulf of Trump." - President Trump on Fox News.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘I predict they [Iran] come back and give us everything we want.

And I tell my people, I want everything. I don’t want 90%, I don’t want 95%, I want them to give us everything.’

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🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇮🇷 Trump on news reports that China is preparing to ship weapons to Iran: "I doubt they would do that... but if we catch them doing that, they get a 50% tariff, which is a staggering amount."

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘I could take out Iran in one day. One hour.’

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🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇻🇪 Trump: "As far as China's concerned, China can send their ships to us, China can send their ships to Venezuela... we have a lot of overcapacity, and we'll probably sell [oil] for even less money."

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