A senior Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) officer, who’s the Assistant Chief of Workers on the NATO Allied Fast Response Corps (ARRC), faces courtroom martial, “dismissal with shame”, and lack of his army pension for having disagreed with Canadian, American, and British army planners of Ukrainian battlefield operations towards Russia. His disagreement was in personal, when the officers have been asking for his skilled evaluation, and didn’t like what he advised them.
Colonel Robert Kearney was charged by the Canadian army police on April 23. The cost sheet says he faces “5 (5) x counts of Conduct Prejudice to the Good Order and Self-discipline pursuant to part 129 of the Nationwide Defence Act.”
Public disclosure was delayed by the Division of Nationwide Defence in Ottawa till Monday, April 29, when a press launch claimed Kearney had been underneath investigation since one other officer filed a grievance towards Kearney final November. Based on the ministry assertion, the army police had “obtained a grievance of a senior CAF officer allegedly making derogatory and disloyal feedback about Senior CAF and NATO members.”
Part 129 of the regulation refers to “any act, conduct, dysfunction or neglect”, but it surely doesn’t outline what “good order or self-discipline” means within the Kiev and Lvov bunkers the place Canadians inform the Ukrainians what to do. Canadian sources consider the regulation has not often been used towards an officer of colonel’s rank, and by no means in a courtroom martial of an officer for warning that army plans risked lack of Canadian lives and assets.
Canadian army sources consider Kearney is being court-martialed now as a result of the Canadian authorities’s coverage to finance, arm, practice, plan, and direct Ukrainian operations towards Russia is being defeated, and that the army collapse east of Kiev now dangers lack of extra territory and the lives of Canadians at present working within the Ukraine and at cross-border bases in Poland and Romania. No less than one thousand Canadians have been counted by the Russian Protection Ministry on the battlefield because the begin of the Particular Army Operation; by March of this yr, 422 had been confirmed killed in motion.
“The timing of the alleged offences,” says a Canadian veteran who served with US and NATO models in Afghanistan, “was when the Germans took over command of NATO’s speedy response pressure which has been build up males and materiel, together with heavy tanks and F-16s, in Romania for a plan to assault Russian forces round Odessa. Kearney’s courtroom martial is a warning to his fellow officers to not object or predict destruction of the NATO forces engaged.”
“Kearney stated issues that clearly offended the highest decision-makers in Ottawa,” the supply says. “Criticizing the mission meant criticizing [Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia] Freeland [lead image, left] and the UCC [Ukrainian Canadian Congress]. Criticizing how the mission was being performed additionally meant criticizing the People and British. That’s what has drawn the cost of disloyalty.”
Left: Colonel Robert Kearney from a social media posting; proper, Kearney’s Meritorious Service Medal quotation of Might 2012. An earlier MSM was awarded to Kearney in October 2008. This medal is a US army award to international, allied troopers. Following his first medal quotation Kearney was promoted from command of a CAF coaching base for snipers, tankers, and artillerymen to a divisional headquarters in Toronto.
Colonel Kearney’s first offence allegedly occurred in December of 2021; this was 9 months after Kearney had been promoted to the ARRC employees submit within the UK, changing one other Canadian colonel.
Kearney’s 4 subsequent offences allegedly adopted between January 2023 and November 2023. The offences reportedly befell on the British employees headquarters of the ARRC in Gloucestershire, after which in Romania the place the unit has been coaching for cross-border operations towards the Russian Military.
Since 1945, ARRC has been a British-led land-attack unit aimed at Russia, when “the size of the Purple Menace it confronted was daunting.” Whereas British generals lead the ARRC, Canadian officers employees the deputy posts, and troops from a number of European states fill the ranks. Previously they’ve been despatched to battle towards Serbia and Bosnia, towards the Iraqis in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Since 2022, the unit has been specializing in operations within the Ukraine. In February 2023, a lance corporal whose title was saved secret was awarded a unit medal for “exceptionally rigorous evaluation and sound judgement to the chain of command supporting commanders’ resolution making as much as probably the most senior ranges…With out his dedication, talent as an intelligencer and confidence as a group member, the HQ wouldn’t have been on the entrance foot all through the Ukraine disaster.”
By then the distinction between Kearney’s assessments and the lance corporal’s had begun to be seen. Kearney reported to the AARC chief of employees, Main Normal Mike Keating (proper), a British military helicopter pilot who noticed motion in Northern Eire, Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He was then vetted for a normal’s command by the Pentagon earlier than his promotion to a US unit in Texas, after which task to the ARRC in Might 2023. As a graduate pupil at King’s Faculty in London, he studied underneath the Russia educational warfighter Lawrence Freedman.
“Kearney is a reliable officer, the costs are bullshit, and Normal Keating sacrificed his subordinate,” speculates a Canadian army supply. “Possibly the Ukrainians heard what was being stated, and put stress on Keating to cease the rot. I imply, the reality.”
There isn’t a reference to Kearney as Keating’s deputy within the ARRC archive; the Canadian Defence Ministry press launch is holding secret what disagreements Kearney had with Keating and different officers on the ARRC employees over plans, operations, and intelligence on the struggle towards Russia within the Ukraine. “This case will now proceed by the Army Justice System and no additional data may be launched at the moment”, the ministry has stated.
By publishing the offence allegations and concealing Kearney’s criticisms, the Canadian authorities and the ARRC have eradicated the presumption of Kearney’s innocence, and ensured his courtroom martial conviction. By holding the case particulars secret, the political bomb Kearney’s case represents is being defused. No Canadian journalist dares to analyze.
The Canadian Broadcasting Company’s (CBC) army propaganda reporter, Murray Brewster, claims Kearney was “prolific on social media, Kearney’s posts have been principally private and when he did touch upon the army or allies, it was with congratulatory notes wishing varied models a contented anniversary.” Brewster additionally acknowledges that Kearney’s skilled popularity was constructive. “Kearney, a veteran of the Afghan struggle who served as a strategic adviser to former chief of the [Canadian] defence employees [Army General] Jonathan Vance, was identified in army circles for his blunt, clear-eyed assessments of complicated army and management points.”
For “complicated army and management points” learn combating the Russian Military, says a Canadian army supply. “Have a look at the dates of the alleged offences. The primary was December 2021 – when the US was getting ready the Ukrainians and the NATO assist models to go to struggle towards Russia in a shock assault on Donetsk and Lugansk. Then Kearney allegedly obtained extra emphatic and unfavorable between January and November final yr. This was when even the US Joint Chiefs of Workers have been warning the White Home to not assist the Kiev regime’s counteroffensive of that summer time. That catastrophe was apparent by the point Kearney was saying so in November 2023, and the courtroom martial preparations started towards him.”
Reporting from Ottawa, Brewster implies that Kearney’s prosecution is the primary of its type.
A Washington supply factors out that between September 2022 and March 2023 a spate of detailed warnings towards the Ukrainian catastrophe from the Joint Chiefs of Workers (JCS) have been leaked into the media by a US Nationwide Guard airman first-class named Jack Teixeira; he has subsequently been convicted and despatched to jail for his leaks.
Kearney’s Fb, Linked-in and Twitter accounts have been censored. He and his lawyer have refused to talk to the Canadian press.
David Pugliese (proper), a army reporter in Ottawa for the Ottawa Citizen and Nationwide Put up syndicate, has been reporting on the intercourse scandals and abuse of girls which have compelled the retirements of a number of Canadian army commanders, and a cancelled rape prosecution for Lieutenant Normal Trevor Cadieu, an advisor on tank and artillery operations within the Ukraine.
Based on Pugliese, “Kearney had beforehand raised issues about Canada’s army leaders in 2022 after serving senior Canadian army officers gave a standing ovation to a speech by a retired normal who criticized the whole lot from the elimination of historic statues to authorities local weather change insurance policies. Retired Lt.-Gen. Michel Maisonneuve made the controversial speech whereas accepting a prime defence award from the Convention of Defence Associations Institute.”
“Kearney was one of many few army officers taking concern with the speech. He wrote on Fb that the Vimy Gala ‘was sullied with vanity, entitlement, and never consistent with the humility & spirit of the occasion. I hope that folk which have worn/put on the uniform, previous & current, is not going to assume that every one senior leaders assist the hubris & vanity displayed, over being humble, appreciative, and exhibiting humility in such a discussion board. I additionally hope that extra senior people, (retired & serving), will communicate out sooner or later. Canada deserves higher.’ ”
Pugliese unnoticed what had been the army targets of Kearney’s criticism of Maisonneuve’s (proper) speech in November 2022. “An awesome chief”, Maisonneuve had declared to applause, “can take a seemingly insurmountable goal and make it doable to attain within the hearts and minds of their followers. Fortunately these leaders nonetheless do exist in as we speak’s world and there’s no higher instance than Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In his nightly handle he clearly, constantly, and passionately articulates the mission to his fellow Ukrainians. Dismissed early on as ‘an actor, a comic, a dancer,’ President Zelenskyy has rallied the world to his simply trigger. He surrounded himself with good individuals, made tough choices and by speaking, has captured our hearts and souls with Ukraine’s plight. God pace Mr. President and Slava Ukraini.”
A storm of public criticism adopted Maisonneuve’s remarks, forcing him to reply with a denial that he had been attacking the federal government or the generals commanding the CAF for selling woke tradition contained in the Canadian army. “I’m astonished,” he wrote within the Nationwide Put up on December 1, 2022, “at how my remarks upon accepting the Vimy Award three weeks in the past have been misrepresented and distorted. Some organizations I labored with have determined to chop ties with me consequently.” He reiterated his backing for Canada’s struggle towards Russia. “I stand by my problem to the leaders of as we speak — take a web page from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s playbook: attempt to unite us; not divide us.”
Pugliese was requested to make clear what he or his army sources know however he has not reported on the Kearney case but.
“1. You seek advice from the date of lodgement of the grievance as 5 months in the past, on November 29, 2023. You don’t determine whether or not the grievance originated with a German, American or British officer able within the UK and Romania to have heard Kearney make the alleged “derogatory and disloyal feedback about Senior CAF and NATO members” courting as soon as in December 2021 and 4 occasions throughout 2023? Did the allegations and alleged proof originate outdoors the CAF?
2. Did you have got entry to Maisonneuve’s “controversial speech” as you seem to have reported nothing about it when it occurred or since?
3. You report that “Kearney was one of many few army officers taking concern with the speech.” For sourcing your adjective “few”, you’ll have been professionally obliged to contact a number of — say, greater than three — CAF officers. Did you?
4. Your adjective “few” implies that there have been others, along with Kearney. Is that your understanding?
5. If there have been others, have you ever confirmed that the others haven’t been charged with any offence?”
The questions have been framed for the reporter to reply sure or no. Pugliese has refused to answer.
The wording of the regulation which is getting used to prosecute Kearney is imprecise.
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Like the 2 Canadian army reporters, no serving or retired Canadian army officer has tried to determine what precisely Kearney had stated or written to set off the army police investigation, and what was the nationality of the officers concerned.
The Canadian veteran of the NATO mission in Afghanistan observes that “as an alternative of extra perception relating to Kearney’s place, we’re getting nothing however an inventory of prices inside a temporal context just a few of us can determine as important. 4 of the 5 counts he’s charged with occurred January to November 2023, when the grand Ukrainian counter-offensive had become a grand Ukrainian slaughter and NATO defeat. His obvious griping additionally turned noticeable to ‘senior NATO members’ after the NATO Fast Response Pressure got here underneath German command and deployed to Romania. After seeing the US and NATO efficiency in Afghanistan, he knew rattling nicely that beating the Russians, even with a military of Ukrainian zombies, was a pipe dream.”
The supply notes that in Kearney’s time on the employees of Canadian Normal Jonathan Vance he had seen “up shut the aberrant habits”. Criticism of sexual misconduct by Vance and different senior Canadian officers has been widespread all through the energetic and retired Canadian providers.
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The supply notes that the primary cost towards Kearney dated in December 2021 is “fascinating as nicely. That was throughout the time of NATO preparations to again a Ukrainian offensive into the Donetsk and Lugansk republics and into Russia correct. Greater than probably, Kearney advised his fellow staffers that the operational plan was a massively harmful thought. Colonel Kearney was seeing the writing on the wall, how NATO wasn’t in any respect prepared, and he didn’t hold it to himself. By November 2023, when the fifth cost is alleged, he had in all probability stated ‘I advised you so’ 4 occasions too many.”
