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What makes the Koreans not happy with them?

If they do that, they would be proving to all of their other partners that they are unserious about partnerships, further diminishing their importance in the world.

My mistake, I was distracted while replying, and misattributed some of the overall negativity toward a Saab/Bombardier partnership to your posts.

Then there is no realistic way to please them, and we shouldn't worry our selves too much about it. We have already seen that the current administration has no qualms about moving the goal posts, so what makes people think buying 200 F-35s would make a real difference? The US is already out...

Like the RN, who wears the same hats. The same RN the rest of the RCN is modeled on...

I find the "new" caps extremely comfortable, and breathable in warm weather. My only experience with the old ones was brief, and very uncomfortable.

That's a pretty charitable way to interpret a 2% "swing" in opinion... That's within the margin of error for most polls. It's likely more accurate to say the budget didn't change much of anything for the average voter.

Political activist posts tweet with political bias... With a link to a left bias media outlet.

What is our Euro contribution? A few rickety CPFs, and some out-dated CF-18s? The Indo-Pacific is where the next world changing moment will happen. We can be active participants, or we can cling to past "glories" like the empires of old. If we aren't enough to help in the Indo-Pacific, we...

I think that's the domestically palatable approach, but I suspect the in the real world the Indo-Pacific is more important than the Arctic and Europe combined. Russia is bogged down in a "backwater", and the arctic is just as hostile and a lot farther away for our next plausible enemy. Being...

I hope you're not part of the staff trying to sell this to others... That is the kind of talk that generates active resistance to change.

Less capable than our aging CF-18s? The first CF-18s came into service just over 43 years ago... There is zero doubt the F-35 is a more advanced aircraft, but we only signed on 16 so far, and the people who make the aircraft and run the programme are actively trying to destroy a couple of our...

Switching to a non-toxic version.

I live in Ottawa, it ain't cheap... 😆

For a cut of the profits I'll bring my Canon R10 and be your photographer...

I never said they weren't, I was pointing out that France is too... Just in a dofferent way.

Japan is less fucked in some ways though. Like the fact they remain a largely homogeneous society, and lack the religious and racial tensions that France faces. Diversity can be a strength if managed correctly, but if not well managed, it's how societies fracture and collapse. France seems to...

It seems that Russia is just prolonging the fall, which is likely to make it worse. Part of the reason the USSR fell was the war in Afghanistan. The war in Ukraine is more deadly, and the rest of the world is punishing Russia more. People may have jumped the gun on calling the collapse of...

The NDP are in their current predicament for all the reasons that were discussed over a year ago. They squandered the perfect opportunity to bring down an unpopular government, with an particularly unpopular leader. All this trying to play 4D chess has left them losing badly at Snakes and...

That's kinda my whole point... The average voter doesn't read party policy, or debate the merits of how many pages in a policy brochure is dedicated to hard policy. They vote for the party that catches the right vibe for the moment, or to kick out a party they are tired of. In the case of the...