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It had a quite loud political cheering section in Atlantic Canada.

At the risk of reigniting a pro-anti Poilievre sh!t-storm, here is an opinion piece by Andrew Willis from yesterday's Globe and Mail: ---------- To go from attack dog to pack leader, Pierre Poilievre must learn from CEOs ANDREW WILLIS PUBLISHED YESTERDAY UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO When Pierre...

Ah, the redoubtable Sir Mark Sykes and M François Georges-Picot.

I'm inclined to agree; I never knew Thomas - I did know her father, but not well - but I heard that she was 100% focused on her own agenda and it just so happened that the Trudeau gang was better aligned to that than was the previous Harper gang.

Direct hits in Tel Aviv are a strategic, political "win": for Bibi and the Warhawks and, equally, a strategic, political blow to Biden and the Peaceniks. I also note that (more than one) 🇮🇱 official has saids that there is nowhere in the region - meaning, specifically Tehran, Sana'a and Aden -...

Back in the day we had a thing referred to as the "mobile striking force:" essentially the 2nd battalion of each of The RCR, the PPCI and the R22R were (partial) parachute battalions and were trained and, to a degree, equipped for Arctic operations. The perceived threat, we were told, was based...

The Good Grey Globe's Tony Keller asks a good question: ---------- Will Israel’s decapitation of Hezbollah be another missed opportunity? TONY KELLER PUBLISHED 5 HOURS AGO Israeli diplomat Abba Eban famously said that his country’s Arab neighbours “never miss an opportunity to miss an...

The locals - Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, etc - were all there, full UN members, in 1948. They all voted against partition and they all went to war ... and lost. I seem to recall reading somewhere that one reaps what one sows.

Part 2 ISRAEL’S MISSING STRATEGY For Israel, the incentives also argue against a large-scale war with Hezbollah. After nearly a year of fighting in Gaza, the IDF is tired, munitions stockpiles are depleted, public support for Israel’s leaders is weak, Israel’s economy is suffering, and its...

Will ⬇️ this, from Foreign Affairs a few days ago, help? ⬇️ ---------- Israel and Hezbollah Are Escalating Toward Catastrophe How to Avert a Larger War That Neither Side Should Want By Dana Stroul September 23, 2024 Within 24 hours of Hamas’s October 7 terror attack, Hezbollah followed with an...

There were a number of socio-economic and political "drivers" behind the MCDV project (I was 'in the room,' albeit in the back row, for some of the discussions) but there was also a military driver: economy of effort. It was recognized that the brand new Halifax class frigates were going to be...

Well, ⬇️ this part of Bibi's plan ⬇️ is going well: ---------- Netanyahu gets political boost in Israel after series of strikes in Lebanon, Yemen MARK MACKINNON SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT TEL AVIV PUBLISHED 5 HOURS AGO UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO Two weeks of unprecedented attacks targeting...

I began my post by saying "noise from the jungle drums" and emphasized that they were just "rumours." You then decided to tear me a new arsehole. I find your overreaction ill mannered and immature.

Homeless Tories are a real thing. I have no idea how many they are or how well organized they might be. I backed a way from most political discourse to deal with may own health issues but a handful of people try to keep me engaged. I said rumours 🤷‍♂️

A few days old but important reading from the Globe and Mail: ---------- China now more ‘audacious and sophisticated’ in foreign-interference operations, Hogue inquiry told ROBERT FIFE OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF STEVEN CHASE SENIOR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER OTTAWA PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 26, 2024UPDATED...

Listening to some very faint and distant conservative jungle drums .... the consensus is that the next election should look something like this: CPC ≈ 220 seats BQ ≈ 45 seats NDP ≈ 35 seats Liberals ≈ 30 seats Others ≈ 5 seats But suppose some conservative are saying that a movement emerges...

Yes, but ... there needs to be an "elite" in the PS from which you draw e.g. the Clerk and the DMs of e.g. Finance, Industry, Foreign Affairs and a very few others. They do need to be identified when they are in their late 30s, after a decade of service, and mentored. It isn't a large number: a...

And, to add to it, here is an interview with Secretary Rice, based on her article, from Foreign Affairs: it's 35 minutes but if you can't spare 35 minutes to listen to Condolleezza Rice discusss foreign policy then I think you have your priorities mixed up.

I suspect that 🇮🇱 may actually be hoping for someone a wee bit less than "stable" to start launching missiles which will give them a good reason for some massive, bunker busting air attacks in the zone South of the Litani River. I think 🇮🇱's 7th Armoured Brigade is also waiting for Hezbollah's...

You need to visit the museum near Guangzhou which is devoted to the Opium Wars and the humiliation - they use that word over and over again - that 🇨🇳 suffered at the hands of imperialist 🇬🇧