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Ottawa itself is full of broken buildings. Go to Coventry or former NDMC. We also don't have the facilities we need. The Space Wing doesn't have a proper ops centre. We'll be taking delivery of satellites and having people work on laptops like college students. There's no proper secure ops...

I get the skepticism. Honestly. But from where I sit, this doesn't look like, "What's the minimum we can do to get the US off our backs." This looks a lot more like, "What is the most we can get out of our dollars (in multiple ways)?". He really could have been far more stingy if he wanted...

If they are talking this much I wonder how much is for show.

With Carney? Yes. With anybody else? No. For whatever reason (and I'm not complaining) the guy thinks defence is important and sees it as an actual economic driver. None of his predecessors have thought that way. And I'm not sure his successor will either.

I struggle with what the rest of us can do. The USN can't establish positive control of the strait. What exactly would the rest of us be able to do that they can't? Pretty clear the argument that the rest of us should get involved is so he can others to share the loss with. The only way...

Do you really want to see his sexts?

It was the same thing when Iraq started going to shit. By 2026, you couldn't find anybody who supported the war or any Americans who helped re-elect Bush. The only thing interesting here is that people can't hide their past today with social media. Maybe that makes it harder for people to...

What we need to do and what we're willing to do are two different things.

Other nations will just cut a deal with Iran and pay the toll to get their ships through.

Shot: Chaser:

Supply shocks and $2T deficits don't go together.

What are they going to do that the US and Israel can't?

That wasn't luck. Pilot broke hard into the missile.

And countering the Iranian reaction. For this gambit to be successful, losses have to be minimal. And Iran can't succeed in further attacks on infrastructure or shipping. If oil goes to $150, Americans are going to be asking what the point was of those dead troops.

I keep saying they will just keep using this as a stick until they absolutely need to use it.

There's no option but to escalate now. Iran can keep tolling the strait and going for a while. They are making more money than ever. The Sanctions relief that Trump gave them was 10x more than Obama's containers of money. If you're the IRGC why would you not keep this going? Even better...

Absent a ground presence in Iran this isn't possible. And the Gulf States risk massive and somewhat unrecoverable economic losses, the longer this goes on. I don't think it's clear cut they'd support a long campaign.

This is increasingly looking like America's Suez moment.

Not the Div. But at the Wing level we pushed to fund and get Met Techs trained. We also pushed to have a plan to eventually post in Met Techs.

Not as fast as I'd like. But since all the crap started with the US, there's at least more awareness of the need to develop sovereign capabilities. Capacity building is always slow in new areas. But at least there's interest and funding and we can send promising young Met Techs to get...