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I THINK the last time armed intervention was authorized under the UN was in 1999 during the Kosovo campaign? (And MAYBE in 2001 for Afghanistan, just because it was immediately post 9/11?) Ever since then, I don't believe the west has officially declared war, and instead have proceeded under...

Fair question. Hopefully the Americans learned from their 2003 Iraq invasion that destroying a country's armed institutions (military, police, etc) is not the way to go & are applying those lessons learned? It doesn't seem like America wants anything to do with a ground war. They haven't...

I'm extremely leary of believing the falling numbers, personally. It's safe to call me a skeptic. For all of these MP's to be crossing the floor to the LPC has me thinking there are some shady back room talks happening to entice them to cross the floor... Money? Promises of a prominent...

First time I ever had Apple Crisp was as a recruit doing my QL2, circa 1999/2000...the food served throughout my 11 years in was always pretty good. No complaints at all here Whole deployed I had the opportunity to eat at a mobile field kitchen the Portugese brought with them. Holy cow!! 10/10

Absolutely agree. Thats why I brought up their space program...it's far more ambitious than NASA & so far I haven't heard of any major hardware failures. And their space station interior looks a whole lot cleaner than the interior of the ISS.

Oh probably!! I have no doubt Made under contract by the lowest bidder, most likely. And in China I think 'lowest bidder' goes lower than we would think...

Nothing like buying a condo on like the 44th floor of an 80-story highrise only to have the concrete walls crumbling & foundation shifting on their own...and living in an Earthquake prone region at that 😬 I'm with ya on the quality control issue ... That being said, Chinese J-10 fighters were...

Chinese arms exports are quite interesting, I find... Have there been many instances over the last few years where Chinese kit has catastrophically failed a client state? Or any instances at all? Russian air defence systems don't seem to be all that reliable lately, not against the west's...

The article might be better suited for a more science based thread, but I'll post it here just because of the China connection... Interesting science for sure! Certainly the ideas are creative & have merit (and seems quite doable given what my pee brain understands) It would be so cool to...

It might be their lowest goal for economic growth since 1991, but it still blows our economic growth clean out of the water... For reference, I think our forecast sits at between 1% and like 1.3% compared to their 4.5% to 5% ... Kirkhill pointed out something interesting earlier, re Iranian...

Juat something Trump related... 🤷🏼‍♂️

Darn it...I gotta bite...the fear of what I may never know is too strong of a draw lol Why would CBC be pissed at a CAF funding boost??

I hadn't thought of that, but it certainly sounds plausible & likely...nice catch! And just think, this guy didn't just spurt something out that sounded dumb...and then quickly corrected himself No he sat at a keyboard somewhere. Logged into a computer. And deliberately typed that out &...

Good point. I don't think I know a single person that even has a cable subscription anymore come to think of it... YouTube, Amazon (aka all the other streaming services also) have really replaced broadcast TV & even the cable companies and their specialty channels. ... I really miss the...

That's well said. So far, I don't trust him either...but I'm not committed to disliking or distrusting him, he just hasn't given me a reason to really trust him yet. I am absolutely supportive of him pursuing the plans he claims to have for the country tho. If actions replace words & all of...

B...but... But ADATS...??? (I also am not a fan of having the DF vehicles also being used as AD vehicles because once one gets taken out, there goes both capabilities)

Not if they wanna stay alive...

EXACTLY...

Apparently Mr. Carney was mentioned in the Epstein files 68 times (so far) I have no idea if Mr. Carney did anything inappropriate or not. But getting mentioned 68 times in the biggest mass sex-trafficking disclosure ever doesn't look good... And hanging out with Epstein & Maxwell socially...

As long as we are careful about how we proceed, and what we allow in terms of our relationship, Canada expanding trade with China can be a very good thing. We don't export much in terms of refined goods, but we are blessed with plenty of natural resources & the industries to access them...