A historic step for Europe and Canada. 🇪🇺🇨🇦 President @vonderleyen has just invited #Canada to become the EU’s first associate member. At a time when autocracies seek to divide us, democracies must stand closer together. A stronger EU–Canada partnership will make us safer and #EU #Canada #Partnership #EU #CA
Part of the imbalance in the missile threat is that the autocracies—those actually at war, like Russia and Iran, and those not yet, like China—have already put their defense-industrial base on a war footing, achieving rapid increases in production. But the West lives according to #MissileThreat #Autocracies #DefenseProduction #RU #IR #CN
Low-fertility autocracies seems to have little trouble with re-industrializing or waging war when needed. (These used to be 20th century strengths of high-fertility democracy! ) #LowFertility #Autocracy #Reindustrialization #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedinthetweet.
