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get CESSNA to re-open the Skymaster assembly line. Ukraine has proven that you don't need a sophisticated aircraft and the O2 could withstand a fair bit of punishment and bring the pilot home. Use them to meet the drones on the way in with your lasers as local defense.

His banker background is showing. He has always been part of the management team to whom labour disruptions are an unnecessary expense. I personally don't agree with strikes as I fail to see where the lose of a week or two pay can ever be regained regardless of the final settlement. Plus...

The New England states are cutting their forests to supply the chips. If a pine tree is worth more as wood chips from New England why isn't taking all the deadfall and bagging it profitable in B.C. But you answered that in your last line. B.C. is too expensive for anything to be profitable. Sigh

Question: The British are importing tons of wood chips from the States to use as environmentally acceptable fuel. Would it not be, if not profitable at least a break even measure to run chippers near all that deadfall, bag it and sell it on?

yeah it is their fault. The voting masses expect them to fix the problems because their election platforms have specifically said that they would address each issue even though they have to business doing so. Health care, no problem. they mandated universal and then didn't provide the funds...

my local garage has already seen a sharp increase in vehicle makeovers. People are putting serious money into maintaining their current vehicle to a much higher standard than they used to.

almost all of the original NATO countries are in the same boat. None of them maintained a semblance of a military force with the possible exception of France who always seemed to be involved with trying to keep peace in their former colonies. If the Falklands had happened in 2000 Argentina...

older history books certainly tell a different story. Books written say before 1950 had the indigenous groups asking for schooling, farm assistance, and other forms of training to escape the poverty associated with the tribes. Their lands were great if you were a hunter or trapper but they...

and how many of those specialized components are truly necessary for the war machine to operate effectively? I can fully appreciate the value of the optics and weapon systems but engine electronics and computers are just that many more pieces that can render the equipment immobile. Better to...

Beautifully summarized Furniture. There will always be some who rebel against any kind of law. But for the majority it is a matter of trust. If we have leaders we trust we follow their lead. We may complain about it, we may not like it but overall we follow their leading. Because of their...

Putin probably doesn't care whether he gets a ceasefire or not. Perhaps his main goal is to shut off or at least reduce the flow of American weapons. If Ukraine has to limit their use of precision weapons Russia's mass attacks will overwhelm the defenders in time. All Putin has to do to...

can't tell from the video if the frigate turned for the PCG and miss-judged or whether he was trying to cut off CCG. He started off on a parallel course and then turned into the pair of them. There is no way to tell who was his target but I am guessing he was after the PCG. Either was that is...

Your remarks suggest the death of civilization. Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler all worked from the same premise: might is right. The Magna Carta would never have been penned if people hadn't fought for it. The U.S. would be part of the British Commonwealth and there would still be a country called...

And Azerbaijan is next. Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan? probably Moldavia, eventually Poland. Putin wants to re-create the Russian empire. He and his crowd control Russia. If he dies someone of his same ilk is going to take his place: there are certainly enough loud mouths spouting...

Worse yet, what corporation is going to invest in development (pipelines, resources etc.) when there is a chance that the local tribe will move in after you have done all the expensive stuff. Consider what happened in Caledonia and multiply it 100 fold. And yes, tribe is a little derogatory I...

Poland has just ordered what? a thousand. We are talking about replacing 80 odd hulls on a 1 to 1 basis. What is the point?

What prey tell, are these humanitarian laws you keep talking about? Laws are written to define the bounds of behaviour. Science laws are a good example. For example: an object in motion remains in motion until acted upon by an external force. We all know it. These humanitarian laws...

Do you want to bet that the land going back to Ukraine is the portion that has the rare minerals in it and Russia gets to keep the wheat fields

On the other hand generals aren't worth 20%, however all of the trades are