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It would appear Canada is joining the Greenland evolution. https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-allies-boost-greenland-military-presence-donald-trump-ramps-up-pressure/

The Nazi had a better tailor?

Hope, if they do hit anything, our delightful southern neighbours manage to be accurate and to confine themselves to targets the bulk of Iranians will be happy to see gone.

Someone needs to be gaming that out and putting together a "you're asylum administrators now" package suitable for use by the town clerks and Mounties in, say, Estevan.

That must do wonders for rest and readiness.

Is a USN reduction strategy likely to be of any real interest, beyond curiosity, to the RCN, given how generous their starting point is?

There may also be an element of PR to cover make Trump seem more present than he is, to counterbalance the Napper in Chief videos and idiosyncratic speech delivery.

Lease a bunch from France, and then get on with building our own. Make sure that everything with wings in the RCAF can drop them, even if it means cargo pallet and static line. Let it be known that land invasions or attempts on the Canadian deterrent force will trigger whatever's left. If the...

Equally, building a strategy and structure to handle Russians in the Arctic is a perfectly innocent way to discuss and prepare for defending Canadian soil from unwanted guests with a love of eagles and stars.

A... trawler... slinking along, all aboard hoping the USCGS Interferer finds urgent business elsewhere.

As far as clearly (for a given value of clearly...) stated ambitions, Trump is now 1:1 with Putin, with far more capability available. I'm quite happy to have the PM et al making considered or fence-sitting noises if it strings things along and avoids drawing attention: outside of that arena...

Also feels like it's at a level where those issues are Global Affairs matters rather than House administration. Could give her a Cabinet position and some sort of diplomatic appointment to clarify.

With perhaps additional appeal even within a day's drive depending on weather and geography? Who wants to pay a driver to chance the Coquihalla/Hwy 1, maybe get delayed, maybe end up in the ditch, etc. if there's a more reliable option at a comparable price?

Put a price on his living presence at a NATO airport and let the Praetorians figure it out?

Tanker port over on Cunningham, to avoid one more strait crossing?

Would have expected the regime to have a sufficiency of gear for dealing with protests according to their own norms. Russia and China securing their embassies and other facilities?

And IIRC some of those red lines (ignoring the ones that are actually ferries) aren't anything to write home about.

As far as equivalencies, PLAR, etc., isn't there a broader ongoing discussion among the provinces? Wonder how hard would it be to get a 14th seat in there and figure out equivalencies for not just CAF but civil service quals/experience/whatever. Bet the numbers are at least comparable to if not...

Would the Halifaxes be (as far as design goes, not the "rode hard, put away wet" current state) better blue-water ships, too? I know the USCG gets out there, but are deep-sea operations central to their design concept?

Watch party in the mess, yes/no? Of all the infantry units to bring back, the Guards could be one of the cleaner ones: they're not a particularly encumbered with contentious history, amalgamations, or now-irrelevant geographical associations. But agreed re: things implicit in the name. Heavy...