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He’s been watching Trump and is intrigued by the tactic of declaring the enemy is defeated, insisting glorious victory is imminent, and silent just giving-up.

A professional association revoking a licenses to practice is career ending. It is exactly the same level of consequence as a military disciplinary system ending a CAF member’s career. And in the civilian side, it does happen that the disciplinary body ends a practitioner’s career while the...

This doesn’t happen. Professional disciplinary bodies can hand out huge fines, mandate training, and revoke licenses to practice. The police don’t walk away from a criminal investigation because a profession is doing its own disciplinary process. And let’s make sure we are not conflating...

That is how the article describes the bill itself, but the Conservative amendment and all the described objections seem to focus on jurisdiction to prosecute.

I don't see the value in that proposal. It doesn't do anything to help a victim. However, military discipline evolved to a pseudo-criminal process where pursuing criminal charges and pursuing disciplinary charges is seen to give rise to a double jeopardy. No other professional body has that...

Why do we need to declare conversations closed and have them locked? This has been our overarching discussion on defence spending since 2022, with the thread itself having been rebranded/retitled by moderators a few times to fit the theme of the current day. Just let it role and discuss defence...

When you enter information into a discussion to support a conclusion, the "validity" of that information is relevant to whether or not it actually supports the conclusion you claim and so the validity of that information is germane to the discussion. If you argue that Canada is in trouble using...

I’m not making an assessment about what is or is not a war crime. Only noting that we have tools and principles to determine what right looks like. Overly simplistic analogies that only consider a single aspect of LoAC in isolation will results in wrong decisions that can go wrong in either...

They also work for private business.

There is only a problem if you don’t know LoAC and attempt to model it from single aspects in isolation from all others. Proportionality always matters.

Maybe don't use logical fallacies to argue a wrong is not wrong? Can you acknowledge that forgien interference in the case of Alberta separatism is wrong, and then not minimize/defend forgien interference through any of appeal to hypocrisy, red herring, whataboutism, appeal to popular...

You say that, but you still go to an effort to minimize so that this time, in this case it is not really bad. This is moral relativism and either an appeal to popular indifference or an appeal to authority (or mabye both). Right and wrong on not measured by how much people care. People can be...

When you flippantly dismiss concerns about (and recent evidence of) foreign interference in Alberta separatism because "we still don't know which MPs are connected to the Chinese" then you certainly comes across as being okay with any foreign interference in Alberta separatism.

No. Wrongs do not cancel. If you can't call-out your preferred political team for doing a wrong, then you are condoning the wrong. It doesn't matter who you accuse of doing something that you assess as similar. If you defend abhorrent behaviour with an appeal to hypocrisy, you are approving of...

One wrong justifies a second wrong ... that's generally a recognized logical fallacy in the form of appeal to hypocrisy and "whataboutism". Though it does seem a popular whitewash tactic to defend one's favoured political bent.

This is not acceptable behaviour of any state. https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-killing-assassination-intelligence-6e60452ecbe1a42a0ddc9adcd2f39f23

There are steel target options.

My understanding is that CADTC ensured suitable alternatives were available before banning new use of old AFV as targets. If your ranges have don’t have targets, then your unit needs to engage the base or range control directly to state its requirements (quantity, location, what should be...

Getting out of Ukraine is an off ramp, and that ramp has been available continuously from day 1.

In two cities across the country. You are whining to tax electric vehicles across the country because you are unhappy with your municipal tax set-up? Maybe think of a Vancouver solution to your Vancouver complaint.