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Do you have an example of US government 'eptitude' within the past year? Or even 'aptitude'?

What do other "middle power" countries do differently than Canada when their citizens are "illegally incarcerated" that make us the "laughing stock of the G20"? Or even great power countries? The superpowers are a differently kettle of fish, at least one of them currently being the most often...

Greatcoats on, greatcoats off. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-halts-all-flights-texass-el-paso-airport-10-days-2026-02-11/

Because the interference of Honorary A***holes and others in the organization and operation of military units is not a phenomenon exclusive to the last few decades.

As some of the younger generations may say, this is could be a trigger for me. It brings me back to the early 1960s. My great-uncle used to live with us. Uncle Bob would have been in his 50s at the time, was a longshoreman, a pleasant enough single man, but he did drink. I don't think that he...

Like many of your thoughts/ideas/theories/flightsoffantasy, I'm left speculating what you're talking about. Perhaps your expectation is that it would be necessary to physically recreate two opposing 'trenchlines' down to the exact detail as would be found in, say, Eastern Ukraine, so that...

Has there been an outbreak of public misbehaviour fueled by drunkenness in Japan that required an increased use of "Hojojutsu"? Would never had gone looking for this stuff, but once you look at it the algorithms keep suggesting additional examples. What I specifically noted was that the...

Though Canada has no tradition of conscription (but the times we used it, the negatives were primarily political), there are still plenty around (mostly old farts like myself, but a few who are still serving) who served alongside NATO allies whose forces were conscripted. Others may have...

I'd agree with the esthetic opinion, but mittens on a string is the most truly Canadian feature about them. I wouldn't denigrate the practice on a forum frequented by generations of soldiers who did the same every winter. Canadian Olympic branded mittens were apparently one of the best selling...

Suddenly the Russian penguin camouflage suit doesn't seem so silly.

A different analysis of the "penguin suit" camouflage. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/27/penguin-camo/

". . . when his body was found it was wrapped in plastic, and that several rolls of the same plastic were found in Bagabuyo's office." Wonder if there were other clients for whom he held funds in trust. On the other hand, from Dick the Butcher in Henry VI, Part 2 - Act 4, scene 2 "The first...

Actually, the HBC did the job that the HBC wanted done locally even if it meant that the locals were sometimes exploited.

I call it "Attention Whore Syndrome" The AI definition https://www.psychdb.com/personality/histrionic

Call the Bum Squad https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15519391/Man-24-sparks-evacuation-French-hospital-doctors-8ins-long-live-WW1-artillery-shell-rectum.html

While disturbing, vile, idiotic . . . there's a long list of descriptives that could be used to indicate how wrong it is, it's actually not a whole 'new' level of messed up. We just hear about this kind of shit more because the perpetrators post about it themselves, or once taken to task their...

Surprise, surprise, the world has changed and the priorities of people (parents and politicians) changed along with it. Sixty years ago I was in that demographic who they would have wanted in scouts, cadets or what have you (and I did that for awhile). But it was also the era of Vietnam, civil...

THe western version of a bleed over into federal politics already happened. It was Reform Party > Canadian Alliance > CPC. The difference being that the Progressive Conservative party actively and knowingly enlisted Quebec nationalists (chief among them Lucien Bouchard) as to gain inroads in...

True. But in a world where 'truth' can't be social nor believed, conspiracy theories abound. In reporting of the previous encounter between Pretti and ICE agents, there is notably the question of whether or not any of the agents were at both incidents. Prior behaviour may be irrelevant to the...