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The Economist takes look at China's global dilemma with a particular emphasis on the Middle East: ---------- Does China welcome—or dread—an Iran-Israel war? It wants American interests to suffer, but not at any price Last month, as tensions escalated between Iran and Israel, China helped...

Most Palestinians, from the West Bank and Gaza, who need complex medical care get it in Israel, even now, after 7 October. Palestine simply does not have the advanced medical infrastructure while Israel is something of a medical powerhouse.

I believe that Sinwar had surgery in Israel a few years ago and they kept his DNA on file as a matter of routine. That's how they were able to run na DNA test so quickly.

I suspect we are seeing the cumulative effects of sustained barracking by allied leaders and some of the Canadian media and increased support, amongst many Canadians for another Trump presidency.

It isn't 🇮🇱 's job to "put Iran back I it's place." Unless I've lost the ability to read and reason, that job belongs to the entire United Nations, as stated in the Preamble to its Charter. It is the duty of e.g. 🇺🇸, 🇬🇧, 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪 and 🇨🇦 to send a "peacekeeping" force to the region, to occupy 🇮🇷...

Just as 🇺🇸 had a right, in December 1941, to respond in a calibrated and proportionate way to 🇯🇵's attack: ☢️!

Mark MacKinnon and Eric Reguly, writing in today's Globe and Mail, warn that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatens more attacks on 🇮🇱 : ---------- Khamenei defends Iran’s attack and hints at more reprisals as Israel continues pounding Lebanon MARK MACKINNON SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT ERIC...

Is there some good, military reason why any 🇨🇦 Navy members need to serve under sail as part of their training for war in the 21st century?

I've raised this issue before, it's a provincial and local matter but there is, very likely, an enabling role for the national government and fiscal support will certainly be needed: ---------- My Toronto transit ride shows why it’s not wrong to consider involuntary care for the mentally ill...

Konrad Yakabuski, writing in today's Globe and Mail, joins the worry about Pierre Poilievre winning without Québec ... ... ho hum, I reply: ---------- Why Pierre Poilievre can’t crack the Quebec code KONRAD YAKABUSKI MONTREAL PUBLISHED 9 HOURS AGO Quebec Premier François Legault denied he was...

Don't forget that the reason for 'Pearsonian Peacekeeping' in 1956 was to rescue the West from Ike's fury. Eisenhower was flaming mad at 🇬🇧 , 🇫🇷 and 🇮🇱 because they invaded Egypt in 1956 and threatened to upset years of 🇺🇸 strategy/diplomacy. He reportedly considered expelling 🇬🇧 & 🇫🇷 from...

The first "large"UN peacekeeping mission: UNEF in 1956, was based on the same "tripwire" theory that Eisenhower advocated for the infant NATO circa 1949. The notion was that the belligerents would be unwilling to pay the political/military price that attacking a very lightly armed. UN force...

No need to apologize, my friend, I post Opinion pieces because I think we all need to think more and react less.

So, Coyne does his job ... he provokes discussion. Here, in Army.ca and in other similar fora, someone expresses an opinion and one or two people either nod or say, "I call BS," but thousands of people read Coyne and many nod, in agreement, and many others disagree but think a bit. It's why...

I think that Andrew Coyne, writing in today's Globe and Mail, in the Opinion section, is correct: ---------- The unity crisis that awaits us on the other side of the next election ANDREW COYNE PUBLISHED 9 HOURS AGO In the election of 1958, the Conservatives under John Diefenbaker swept the...

As Eliza Dolittle sang, "words, words words .." If anyone has some useful ideas or just an informed opinion then tell the putative next Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Poilievre, AND the team that hopes to elect a Conservative MP in your riding. Otherwise, as she sang, "is that all you...

Many years ago the CF was allowed, maybe even encouraged, to talk about their requirements in public and the Navy, at least actually published a shiny paper (does Leadmark ring a bell with anyone?) - sure, maybe it looked a bit like the Sears Christmas Wish Book, but my memory says that it made...

Campbell Clark, writing in today's Globe and Mail opinion pages, says that Pierre Poilievre might be slippin' and slidin' just a bit: ---------- Poilievre moving down a sliding scale toward admitting he’ll cut some Liberal social programs CAMPBELL CLARK PUBLISHED 12 MINUTES AGO Nine months...

I repeat: every missile that makes it through and hits civilians in Israelis cities is a political win for Bibi and his Warhawks and a defeat for Biden and his Peaceniks. Tehran is well within the range of Israel's bombers and the IDF is, I suspect, pretty good at SEAD.