Kerry Buck

Sigh. Just HOW long must the dude abide???

I have done so little For you. And you have do little For me. That we have good reason Never to agree. I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

Watching the inevitable critics of Carney's performance with Trump today, I am reminded of the two bits of advice I used to give clients: Don't antagonize people who can inflict serious harm on you. Don't start fights with crazy people. There are other routes to success than confrontation. #cdnpoli

Opinion | Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...

Thoughts ahead of Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy & European leaders. First, Trump wants both sides to stop fighting, but is only prepared to put pressure on Ukraine. If Putin had any worries on that score, the Alaska summit will have reassured him. Sanctions are postponed, again. 1/16

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We’re not worthy…. (Cannot wait!) youtube.com/watch?v=70DD...

a woman with a neck brace and a bandage on her head is talking to a man . ALT: a woman with a neck brace and a bandage on her head is talking to a man .

A very short NATO Summit Declaration, even shorter:

Canada should spend even a 10th of this on more robust foreign affairs capacity:

- Double Cdn embassy and multilateral staff and widen their skillsets
- Create ability to bring outside experts into GAC and DND
- Cultural change at GAC
- Increase development spend on democracy and rights

www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...

The NATO summit is underway and should be wrapping up shortly. We’ll see how my predictions hold up. Here’s my conversation yesterday with Menaka Raman-Wilms of the Globe’s Podcast, The Decibel. How Canada fits into the high-stakes NATO summit

"If the Iran war... ends in the summer of 2025, the major outcome of it will be that it was a military act to preserve the hold on power by three men." — @dougsaunders.bsky.social, tonight at 8/11pm with Erin O’Toole, Arne Kislenko, Janice Stein, and @spaikin.bsky.social

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On The Current this morning talking about the NATO Summit today and tomorrow in The Hague… www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

This should be a fun read! Thanks Madelaine @mdrohan.bsky.social

Donald Trump once quipped, "What’s an ally?" "Prime Minister Mark Carney is about to find out," writes Canada's former ambassador to NATO. | Lisa Van Dusen Donald Trump once quipped, "What’s an ally?" "Prime Minister Mark Carney is about to find out," writes Canada's former ambassador to NATO. New at Policy Magazine's #NATOSum...

What to expect at the upcoming @NATO summit in The Hague June 24-25th www.linkedin.com/posts/lvandu...

Canada’s military took on southern Kandahar province, which every single American I met in Afghanistan admitted was the toughest patch there was.

One hundred and sixty-six Canadians died fighting a war provoked by an attack on U.S. soil, including my colleague Michelle Lang

What does meeting NATO's 2% target mean for Canada's armed forces? | Power… | Kerry Buck On Power & Politics last night talking about PM Carney’s historic defence announcement yesterday. I come in at the very end of a long line of good analysis by others including host David Cochrane...

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Can Canada punch above its weight in a changing global order? @spaikin.bsky.social asks former CSIS director Richard Fadden, Royal Military College of Canada professor of defence studies @achapnick.bsky.social, and former Canadian ambassador to NATO @kerrybuck.bsky.social (@uottawa.ca) #cdnpoli

This shouldn’t be a surprise when it happens at the Summit. And it’s absolutely in Canadas interest to support the move by NATO, not just because of Trump. Here’s me on #TheAgenda last night on defence spending and the Summit, inter alia…
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This shouldn’t be a surprise when it happens at the Summit. And it’s absolutely in Canadas interest to support the move by NATO, not just because of Trump. Here’s me on #TheAgenda last night on defence spending and the Summit, inter alia…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4HE3JWm_G4

But it’s a brilliantly tactical beige. Seriously. Anything else would have been folly.

I have offered that Ukraine military unconditionally ceases fire for 72 hours.

“Be the wolf pack, not the six pack”

Opinion: The Afghan refugee crisis is a migratory time bomb that may soon go off It’s been nearly three years since the Taliban retook Afghanistan, but for those in exile in neighbouring Pakistan, lack of options means many may be forced to flee soon

This is my reporting — with Zia Rehman and Wazhma Hamidi — on the extremely dangerous situation these Afghans face, stuck in a Pakistan that’s trying to expel them. Quite a few of them, including Wazhma herself, are now in greater danger

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Why Cory Booker’s Speech Matters Booker didn’t “accomplish” anything. He was a voice of one crying in the wilderness. And that’s how you build a dissident movement: with simple acts of witness.

"The catch is that in order to get attention, you have to be terrible. You have to lie or embrace evil. In the attention economy there is enormous demand for civic blasphemy. What’s hard is getting attention for messages about truth, or virtue, or love."

Uh oh.

Trump called to discuss me agreeing to a ceasefire and ended up asking Ukrainians to surrender.

Steven Erlanger on X: ""If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before Trump’s inauguration." https://t.co/bfqN2cNVae" / X "If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before Trump’s inauguration." https://t.co/bfqN2cNVae

A must read from my friend Steven Erlanger. I spent most of my career working on human rights - this scares me. x.com/stevenerlang...

Truly honoured to have been awarded the King Charles III coronation medal. And very sad to have missed the ceremony with Minister Blair and my colleagues from UofOttawa. www.uottawa.ca/en/news-all/...

You’re not the last because I haven’t realized it yet.