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I think Turkey has a better relationship with Russia and does not have to worry about this.  Funny when ever Russia intervenes on its borders the West views this as an attempt to take over the world.  How often does the U.S intervene in places that is nowhere near its borders?  Even Canada with...

Were would the U.S get this heavy brigades?  So we will attack powers just because the are against the interests of the west?  Why should Turkey do the dirty work for U.S? 

He has had the longest.  That does not necessarily the most successful, but I guess it depends on you define success.  I would submit the Chief and Pearson got more done during their shorter minorities.  But that is just me.

If Harper loses the next election the knives will come out and he will be gone.  His highly centralized style is tolerated for now, but he has burned a lot of bridges in his own party and is of course an outsider to the traditional Conservative party, all factors that will come to haunt him if...

Without getting too far off topic.  Above is the section from wikipedia that I read that caused me to think that the Mig-25 caused coalition forces significant problems, just thought I clarify.  Indeed.  Given that some of the satellites were not the most loyal this made perfect sense.    I...

Not sure why I got this response.  I was responding to Retired AF Guy who mentioned the wikipedia- in the post right before mine.    I see no problem with wikipedia, nor the always collegial Retired AF Guy citing it as a source.  Wikipedia has its limitations, but I would not condemn all of...

I was thinking of the one air to air kill and the bunch of SAM kills.  Sorry if i gave the impression of more than one air to air kill.  Having looked at the wikipedia page it is interesting to see how the IrAF force, particularly the Mig-25's caused significant problems for the coalition...

The U of O has some parking lots right by NDHQ.

Okey dokey. 

Fair enough.  Those were Israeli F15 and F15 with Israeli avionics and systems-they are not the same as the USAF fleet.  I wouldn't write off the Russians.  Again, the Russians have a real Air Force the Syrians do not-nor have they since 1982.    The west needs to stop thinking itself as...

Shock and Awe only works in countries that don't have real Air Forces.  Russia has a real Air Force as well as a very able  SAM fleet, including the S-400 that would make short work of F-15 and F-16's.  You don't think that the Bear bombers would retaliate?   

This was true from the early 1990’s to late 1990’s.  The Russian economy is doing much better at the moment.  It’s the U.S economy that is largely causing international investors concern.  Well if we are kicking people out of the G8-we should note that Canada really doesn’t belong either. ...

South Ossetia seceded from Georgia back in 1991-92.  With the exception of Akhalgori and other small pockets Georgia has not had any measure of control over that territory since that time and even before that.  The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN) finding that, South Ossetia...

Indeed.

The geopolitical sense-not militarily. 

I fully agree.  The Russians fight mean for a reason.  I think they have also shown that the don't care about the hyper-power or what is has to say.  This increases their global street cred.  It has also increased the self-confidence of Russians after a series of defeats on Iraq and Kosovo. ...

Despite these cuts, Harper will undoubtedly fail to challenge the biggest cultural subsidy of them all:  Official Bilingualism.  While this policy perhaps makes some sense in Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario it really does not make sense in the rest of Canada.  I wonder about how many billions...

Ok gotcha.

No it is Classical Conservatism.  There is no classical fascism by the way-just fascism.