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Seems very counter-intuitive

I agree we do have some very good bureaucrats and I’ve met them, including some very high up in the procurement area. I’m not saying everybody is bad, just that alot of bad choices have been made over the years so unfortunately my confidence level is rather pessemistic…especially once the...

Well military and naval people with actual detailed knowledge and insights would be more valid to comment on if there is a wrong choice between the 2 subs. Personally and with my very very limited knowledge I think the SK boat is the better option for many reasons outside the delivery schedule...

I don’t have alot of confidence in our politicians and bureaucrats to make the best apolitical decision.

Is the German boat really that much more advanced in technology,weapons, sensors etc., than the Korean boat??

Yes I did make a follow-on post agreeing to that. These discussions always bring me back to the sad story about the young, lost Japanese tourist who was killed by a wide-awake homeowner, early evening, just for ringing the doorbell hoping to ask for directions. Definately not the sort of thing...

I think both your comments about drunk or mentally deficient intruders are valid and I in no way want to see us at the point that has unfortunately happened were such persons have been killed by a homeowner….thats a different scenario. But how many untrained people are so clearheaded when...

Man that’s two years worth of bacon for me😳😳😳

I’m no expert in any of these issues….just a regular 70 year old civvy. It just bothers me and seems wrong that 1) a homeowner who is confronted by a housebreaker at night/early morning, very often woken from a sound sleep, has to worry almost as much about the governments reaction to his/her...

An excerpt from this story —-> MSN “ Khill was initially acquitted by a jury, but this was overturned by the Ontario Court of Appeal and a new trial was ordered. Khill appealed this ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada, but was denied by a majority of the court (only Justice Suzanne Côté...

And just to up the ante…click on the MSN just beneath to open the story https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/houston-homeowner-shoots-and-kills-two-men-in-ski-masks-who-turned-up-at-home-claiming-to-be-cops/ar-AA1L80ja?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=e45da36553524de89c6211e1047b8d97&ei=8

While I tend to agree the biggest difference now is that pretty well all the national leaders during the cold war had also had experience of the catastrophe of WW2 and the long road to recovery after it….many of those leaders actually spent time on the firing line. The same can’t be said of the...

The frightening thing to me is that Trump, with his total lack of knowledge about European history, lack of knowledge about military or diplomatic history and his ego-driven type of negotiating tactic could end up placing the US and the West into a position now( such as US and/or other western...

When has that ever influenced a Liberal government.

You are correct….delivery of the first sub is scheduled for some time in 2027 and a second one in 2028…..

I don’t think Sweden has actually started its newest model of sub yet have they? Let alone even have one completed and at sea.

Putin isn’t going to accept any type of peace deal short of him being able to keep not only the land he has taken but also the rest of the three provinces.

At the end of the day the only thing really driving Trump is his desire to point at a ceasefire or peace deal, no matter how bad it is for Ukraine, so he can thump his just and crow about how “ I got a peacedeal/ ceasefire….Bidens war but only I could end!! Me me me”……a heroin his own ego-driven...

I remember when I was a kid in Montreal in the early 1960s..modelling tanks was my thing and the only options for many years in the stores were about 7 or 8 types in 1/48 scale by Aurora or some 1/76 scale Airfix ……..then about 1967 I saw and bought my first Tamiya model…a 1/35 scale Pzkw4……I...