The United States has now given Russia, China, and anyone else who wants to give it a try an even clearer road map for invading countries that displease them. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Fun related random fact: BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans are invested in the Thai fossil firm working with Myanmar’s junta. (from our awful pension investments advent calendar)

Agreed. It’s the extra-high potential for miscalculation + misinterpretation right now that’s most worrying. Imagine something like the Cuban Missile Crisis (already a very close call) but this time the Oval Office is full of the absolute WORST idiots on Earth, including a senile president.

I'm not saying the odds are *high* but there's a non-zero chance we wake up to the opening dance moves of World War 3

Luckily, as ever, our friend History offers us a useful precedent to consider - and here’s what the US STATE DEPARTMENT has to say about it: “In 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.”

The criminal Trump regime has unleashed a wholly-unprovoked war on Venezuela. What does this tell us about their willingness to use the military and the odds they’ll eventually turn their attention to other countries they’ve threatened? Time is short - Canada needs to become a porcupine, fast.

Poilievre lights emergency flares to beg Trump to invade Canada

WB Yeats, The 2d Coming - seems apt for Jan 3 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

If USA controls oil that belongs to Venezuela, in qtys that make Dani's look like a raindrop by comparison, nobody cares about AB, not matter how many embedded 'separatists' clamour for it. AB-You just stopped being interesting to anyone. Well, except Steve who still wants to steal your pensions

December 15: BCI has ~$213.45M in Tesla Inc, the US carmaker with a litany of labour + safety issues.🧑‍🎄 The CEO + 15% owner supports fascists around the world, spews racist filth, and got Trump elected.🎄His DOGE slashed key federal services and axed USAID, which is projected to kill millions.❄️Divest!

December 16: BCI has ~$144.15M in TC Energy Corp, Calgary-based owner of CGL pipeline and almost 100,000km of other fossil firehoses, plus several gas power plants.🔔 TC enjoys very close ties to Trumpworld, and its CEO is advising the criminal regime how to build new fossil infrastructure faster.🎁

December 17: BCI has ~$5.30M in PTT PCL, Thailand’s major oil + gas firm (majority state-owned).❄️ PTT is bankrolling Myanmar’s evil junta (currently waging war on civilians) by buying loads of fossil gas from the military-controlled Myanmar Oil + Gas Enterprise (MOGE).🎄Our pensions are complicit.

December 18: BCI owns 26% of Czech Gas Networks Investments, Czechia’s biggest fossil gas distributor, with 2.3M customers + 65,000km of pipeline.☃️ CGNI’s board includes 2 senior BCI execs. And BCI owns several other big gas utilities elsewhere.🛷 We’ll tell our grandkids our pensions were worth it.🎁

December 19: BCI has ~$325.13M in UnitedHealth Group Inc, the US for-PROFIT healthcare firm that sells health insurance + healthcare services.🎁 The world's #7 company by revenue (US$400B in 2024), it has faced various investigations, lawsuits, and fines.❄️ A sickening way to invest our pensions.🛷

December 20: BCI has ~$143.87M in Exxon Mobil Corp, the largest US fossil firm.🎅 It has a sordid history of denying science, killing climate action, and nuking nature (e.g. Exxon Valdez).🎄 Per Carbon Majors, it‘s the 5th biggest CO2e emitting entity ever. Hooray for BCI’s meaningful ESG principles!☃️

December 21: BCI has ~$503.47M in Meta Platforms Inc, the US tech firm that owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp + Messenger.❄️ By prioritizing ‘user engagement’, Meta’s algorithms have fuelled misinformation and violence around 🌏. Ominously, CEO + controlling shareholder MZ is now aligned with Trump.🎁

December 22: BCI has ~$45.80 in Suncor Energy Inc, the tar sands giant.🔔 It‘s also an offshore oil producer, owns Petro-Canada, and is a member of the support group for greenwashers, Pathways Alliance. 🛷 Suncor sold off its wind + solar assets in 2022 and remains one of Canada’s biggest emitters.🎄

December 23: BCI has ~$11.51M in Valero Energy Corp,🎁 the Texas-based owner of 15 oil refineries (in Canada/US/UK) with 3.2M bpd throughput capacity.🧑‍🎄 The world’s #2 maker of corn ethanol and “renewable diesel”, its joint venture to make jet fuel at a Port Arthur refinery doesn‘t sound very green.🤢

December 24: BCI has ~$16.25M in Schlumberger NV (SLB), the world’s biggest oilfield services firm.🎄 It’s no exaggeration to say that SLB tech + expertise keeps fascist Russia‘s oil flowing; the Kremlin depends on this to bankroll its survival and genocidal war on our ally 🇺🇦. Investors = enablers.❄️

…and the IDF (to assist its “war-related missions”).❄️ Two Palantir founders, Chair Peter Thiel + CEO Alex Karp, support Trump’s regime (PT mentored + backed Vance for VP).🛷 Both have scary views at odds with human rights.🎄 Our pensions will be useless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy.☃️

December 25: BCI has ~$48.88M in Palantir Technologies Inc, the US tech giant whose AI-powered data-analysis is used by the Gestapo/ICE.🎄 In 2025 it won a $30M contract to build a platform to “streamline” immigrant identification + deportation.🔔 Other clients include the Pentagon, police depts, …

Too late, we just realized this would have been a good title for the 🧵 below airing our grievances about BCI’s pension investments!!! “Divest-ivus”

Same. Not safe or ethical. There are a million great places to see in Canada and other countries.

100% Too many Canadians don’t realize fascist Russia is at war with Canada and the other remaining democracies too. (Example👇) We should act accordingly - with way more support for Ukraine and way tougher sanctions on Moscow. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

Evergreen question.

Indeed. Yet BCI, AIMCo, CPPIB and other 🇨🇦 pension investment managers plow BILLIONS into fossil firms, but totally ignore the ’minor’ details that climate change will tank the economy and we need a habitable planet + democracy if we (and our kids/grandkids) are to have a retirement at all. Examples👇

Yes indeed. UkrainIan drones have probably done more for climate action (long-term GHGs avoided) in the past year than most countries’ weak climate policies have achieved in the past decade.

And when we demand that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans divest from specific firms, why is that? It’s because these firms are terrible for people + the planet, morally bankrupt, and unlikely to ever change (i.e. investor “engagement“ won’t work). See 25 examples👇 from our awful advent calendar.

And for the all the other nerds interested 🧐 in the definition, etymology, and usage of “divest”…

This is the very first time anywhere on 🦋 in 2026 that the words “pension” + “divest” occur in the same post! Incredible, we know.🤔 Looking forward to working with all of you to make that combination of words a reality in the months ahead!

Have been making much the same point. It’s like if we’d allowed widespread publication of Das Reich in WW2 or helped amplify Radio Moscow during the Cold War. (AND if our governments were at the same using those same channels to share info). It’s bananas.

Great thread indeed. More Canadians + Europeans need to understand and be clear-eyed about the current world - fascist Russia is effectively at war with all of us, the Trump regime is allied with Moscow and actively opposed to liberal democracy, and our ally Ukraine is defending us all.

@mark-carney.bsky.social Long past time to ditch X. It’s like if we’d allowed widespread publication of Das Reich in WW2 or helped amplify Radio Moscow during the Cold War. (AND if our governments were at the same using those same channels to share info). It’s bananas.

A fall into the moral abyss. (13/n)

Just a quick reminder this afternoon that no one has ever invaded a country or taken their leader hostage to steal their solar panels. Added bonus: a solar spill? Just a sunny day.

100%

Russia will condemn this unprovoked aggression and say that international law must be respected.

Boycott, divest from, and sanction the US.

If you're a citizen of another country, demand that your government condemn the aggression by the US, and sanction the US and responsible officials like we've done in other cases of aggression.

You'll notice none of crowd who excuse my invasions are going to say Venezuela deserves this for threatening to take the oil rich regions of their poorer neighbors.

It will be hard for Greenwald, Mearsheimer & Chomsky to see the USA, the power they oppose, act like Russia, the power they appease.

Whoever could have thought that just deciding invasions don't matter would encourage other madmen?

The criminal Trump regime has unleashed a wholly-unprovoked war on Venezuela. What does this tell us about their willingness to use the military and the odds they’ll eventually turn their attention to other countries they’ve threatened? Time is short - Canada needs to become a porcupine, fast.

Once again:

All the bad actors in the world are loving this. Trump has also sided with Putin and other know they just have to give him something shiny to back their illegal acts.

Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.

Rescue workers have recovered the body of a 3-year-old boy from under the rubble of a destroyed building. Emergency and search-and-rescue operations are still ongoing at the site of the strike. According to preliminary reports, 31 people were injured. In total, 12 people have been rescued.

If I can give up Eurovision y'all can give up the sporting events, let's do this

Holy shit. Fuck the current US administration. Manifesting that this leads to a quick eviction and punishment of all those involved. This is an absolutely horrendous worst case scenario. If you've still been lax about US boycotts, now is the time to start. This is where your money is going.

Those who spit on international law are not the ones to uphold it.