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So the conclusion is police were too passive before the emergency was invoked. And if what I have heard on this site is accurate, everything the police eventually did to clear the occupations (in Ottawa and at boarder crossings) was within their extant powers even before an emergency was...

Hopefully this makes a change in the situation.

Poll finds that American voters perceive the first year of Trump 2.0 as a failure with focus being given to the wrong things and everything haven gotten worse. https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/politics/trump-economy-first-year-cnn-poll?cid=ios_app

Is that existing infrastructure fit for purpose?

I am simply not a defeatist. The optimists are telling us war will not happen because Trump will TACO, or the generals will revolt, or Congress will save us after the invasion is started. But given the nature of threats against Greenland and Canada, realists know we need to be preparing...

I answered what Canada must do prior to your asking the question. If the US attacks NATO, Canada must support NATO. NATO’s best odds are with Canada on the team, and Canda’s last best chance is with NATO. If Trump attacks NATO, then choosing not to fight beside NATO is choosing to be conquered...

The US peak presence reflects a time when radar did not see as far, fighters did not fly as far, ground based missile defence did not have the same reach, space based capability was less capable, and Russia did not have so many of its old bombers blowed-up by Ukraine. Absolute numbers of people...

You asked what we shpuld do, made made a flippant remark about “convene vigorously” in response to a US attack on NATO, dropped a rhetorical statement about wasting Canadian lives to defend Ellesmere Island, and then speculated that we would both be fighting in the north if Canada foes to war...

No. Trump is threatening a war against NATO. The instigation would be his decision to act on that threat. If we fool ourselves into thinking that we can sit it out and we choose to not respond with NATO, then we have not saved ourselves. We have simply made Trump’s first fight easier while...

I forget nothing. The claim was made that European NATO would be too cowardly to fight for itself. But European NATO has already demonstrated that it has the courage to fight when it is not threatened, so it would be foolish to assume away its willingness to fight when it is threatened. NATO...

I don’t know that enforcement needs to distinguish between supply vs demand in a criminal marketing chain so much as between who holds the power vs who is the weak, vulnerable, exploited, or otherwise victimized. Targeting people who are trapped in the cycle will see those people replaced by new...

Trump admin is now in the being trolled by NATO embassies stage.

Too little too late if they allow him to first attack NATO before they act.

NATO spilled a lot of its own blood to support the US in Afghanistan, and many even followed into Iraq. I don’t think I would assume away their willingness to fight when it will be in defence of themselves.

There have already been purges and resignations within military leadership. The administration has managed to execute a few major operations before the legislative branch knew anything. Neither legislative house has held Trump’s executive in check yet, and there is tabled legislation to...

It appears the White House Twitter is now making neo-nazi allusions within its Lebensraum threats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gayley_Simpson

No.

Reasonable advice here.

The battalions already exist with their equipment. The intent for the next several years is individually deployable battalions, so we are there.

There is this: https://army.ca/forums/threads/defending-canadian-arctic-sovereignty.16198/