Recent content by Infanteer

Too bad. Periodic screening of certain routine diagnostics can catch dangerous things early.

If we don't front big money up front (like a mortgage) to double down on infrastructure and development, then how do we create the prosperity for future generations to pay off the debt we already?

Interesting take by some: Canada doesn't get new equipment: The government sucks and our military sucks and the stuff we have sucks. Canada gets brand new equipment: The government sucks and our military sucks and the stuff we will get sucks.

Worthwhile read comparing "war of destruction" vs "war of disruption." As some dead German guy said, "“The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish by that test the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither...

Noting that the plural of anecdote is not data, here are some data that can perhaps help this conversation. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28-0001/362800012025007-eng.htm ...and here was my earlier reference: https://economics.td.com/ca-silent-brain-drain

This drain is happening - good think tanks are talking about this. A decade of lagging productivity and business stifiling regulations have done this. Ottawa bureaucrats, bloated by 50% over the same time with sinecure and iron-clad benefits, think everything is just fine.

If Kim Jong Un buys some junk crypto currency, you bet it will.

Hence why I said "success+"

Success and failure are better terms than winning and losing. Iran was focused on regime survival, so it succeeded. It also appears to have gained additional leverage over a key global chokepoint, so success+. As I indicated earlier, the US has so far failed to meet its military and political...

Look like a Trump Casino.

Ask yourself why we don't.

Geographic location, generational trauma, and religious dynamic are not indicators of western liberal democracy. Factors that are: Representative democracy; Free and fair elections; Rule of law; Independent Judiciary; Some degree of guaranteed individual liberties; Independent press; Healthy...

Why not?

To understand the context, one needs to search the Interim Brigade Combat Team and the concept the Americans had at the time that was based on experience from numerous peacekeeping/peacemaking interventions on the 1990s.

A couple ways to look at this. Iranians are playing Trump as a fool and making him look bad as he's all about a deal. Iranians are using this to further reduce Israel's standing with the US by threatening Trump's deal. Possibly, Trump Admin could welcome this as a way to back out of an almost...