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The dumbest thing you can do as a country is announce you’re trying to acquire nukes. Basically makes you a giant target for anyone who does not wish for you to have said capability. This is the type of thing you do quietly then announce once compete. You won’t get invaded that way.

We also didn’t have randomly applied and weaponized tariffs with the country we were doing 75% of our trade with. Losing NAFTA (or whatever it is called today) could be a death blow for the economy with the way the US is today. It would make the great depression seem like the best time to be alive.

It was the opposite experience for me. I got to drink in military bars before I was of legal age. If asked I would always be honest and say I was underaged, which happened a grand total of two times. Generally I was just never asked. Civilian bars never worked for me underaged in Canada...

My question is how is Russia getting their hands on it in the first place?

Why do you think they are trying to make a example of Luigi… fear.

First off I want my laws to be logic based and not emotion based. Set the criteria for each category for physical clearly defined characteristics and go from there. Pre-2019 were not that but they were much closer than the greatly expanded OIC nonsense we have now. You shouldn’t be able to...

I am not saying the F35 isn’t a better aircraft, simply that there is perks to the Gripen (mainly cost, potentially long term strategic partnership) and depending on the path Canada chooses to take, might be sufficient for our needs. Realistically who do we need state of the art for most (all?)...

Estimates for the Gripen per flight hour at the high end are 22k/hr (thats high end, very likely could be lower). Estimates for the F35A is 42k/hr. So about half the cost to operate per flight hour.

One side show to the next. Don’t hear much about their ‘successful’ intervention in Venezuela.

Sometimes it is. Depending on what it is your planning on doing having something which costs less to run but still accomplishing our goals is sometimes better. You don’t always need a Cadillac to drive down the street when the Volvo will get you there. At some point the taps will turn off...

So does bending over and taking it. Locking out your allies from access to equipment isn’t a good strategy to sell equipment. When the US turned off the equipment in Ukraine that should have sent alarm bells ringing throughout NATO. Currently the US is at about 50% with the F35 so that is a...

Deactivated firearms are able to be sold without a license. My understanding is older deactivations (mainly cock and click) bring more money than more recent deactivations done under modern standards. As to the Lee Enfield I suspect that he would have to call the firearms program as you now...

Their vehicle quality has gone up substantially in recent years. I tend to prefer sooner than later. Realistically the Koreans offer much more than the Germans can faster. Their industry is struggling to meet domestic/European demand let alone adding us. The Koreans aren’t. I like the Poland...

If it is outside of the EE, milsurps section, antiques, or gunsmithing, I basically ignore it’s existence. As much as some might think I take extreme stance (mine is more focused on who has access as opposed to what is accessed), many on there would consider me a ‘commie libtard’ or other such...

3% would likely pay back the facility and then some in 10 years. Algoma is in a unique position where once that second arc furnace is running unless the States opens up for business again, they will have a excess capacity in the 2-2.6m tons of steel due to limited products and lack of...

M1 Carbine banned, M1 Garand non-restricted. 8rds of beautiful goodness.

Depends, I know tons of people who never signed up to the long gun registry (or only signed up a few of their firearms) and ultimately won with that. Largest case of civil disobedience in Canadian history and I suspect this will join it.

The problem is your expecting full time commitment from part time workers. Many civilian employers are not flexible. I fight with my company just to take my son to sick kids let alone trying to convince them to give me a ton of weekends and specific time periods off. If it was mandatory for...

You lose me at the mandatory service portion. You have basically offered the worlds worst part time job. Being unable to VR and forced to stay in a part time job which would likely kill any full time job opportunities isn’t a attractive feature. This will not lead to good troops, rather the...

There is a difference between peer pressure and active punishment. Everything you say and do is permanent now. Someone records you that can be the end of any potential career, or other penalties, complaints to HR, the teachers/principals, etc. everything can violate some policy somewhere now...