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Not to mention the international pressure by showing they aren’t actively losing/out of the fight. Hard to push for a crappy peace deal when the Ukrainians are pushing back.

Personally I don't like Ford and never have, way to corrupt for my liking. That being said the reason he has been so successful is the lack of any reasonable competition. Voter turnout reflects this, I didn't vote last provincial election, they all sucked as options to the point of not being...

Thats some good value right there. Considering Afghanistan was approximately 13 million per direct kill and Vietnam was 168-200k (1970 dollars) the West has a lot to learn from them. And that is facing off against a much inferior force, let alone a peer to peer or even dominate force.

People don’t appreciate the value of a van these days. Everyone wants a truck, then the first thing they do is put a tonneau cover on it basically turn it into a van with the seats folded down. Most the time the van has very similar holding capacities and weight restrictions until you start...

Colleges and universities interestingly enough have no formal standards for this and will ‘generally’ hire competent people from the field. The shops teacher part irks me. I would likely switch to being a shops teacher (red seal machinist, working on getting a red seal millwright ticket too...

I suspect that BMQ failure rates will go up as time progresses as less and less suitable candidates will be able to be drawn from the youth. Literacy is going down, the ‘Covid kids’ were absolutely failed educationally with lackluster online education (i.e. they didn’t learn anything, just...

Lots of American war criminals, very little motivation to hold any of them to account, both internally and externally.

100% agree on the CIC officers, no need for them to hold a commission. It is those insufferable cadets who think they know everything joining which cause the rift. Lots of cadets also get a poor idea of what the CAF is like due to how poorly run some cadet units are. They seem to think Full...

The US is at risk of losing world currency status. Once that goes the end is in sight for their empire. My current largest question with all this is when is Trump going to start removing US forces from this war. The 60 days is up and congress hasn’t authorized this war.

Heres a idea, maybe we should have our own troops keeping guard at the bases like the States and most other serious militaries do. If it wasn’t for the fact most people don’t wish to do us harm, our bases are just one crazy guy away from a lot of casualties.

Individuals and groups can leave easily, they just can’t take the land with them. Name any country in the world where it is easy to separate land from the state. There isn’t. Considering the vast majority of Alberta doesn’t want to be part of this temper tantrum, what about their rights? Right...

Two ships a year should be the goal. This build one big batch every couple decades is a terrible practice for sustainability. Results in poorly maintained fleets all at similar states of disrepair and large expenses to get ship building restarted again.

Putin is not a mad man. He is a man who made a strategic mistake, something completely different. He is one of the smartest people alive in the world, you have to be to rise to the top of such a vicious corrupt regime and successfully govern it for a couple decades. The west thought Ukraine...

True enough. I like the Swiss method of not necessarily being able to win, but being able to cause enough pain to make it not worthwhile. However a internal pivot especially in the short term wouldn’t be a terrible thing considering we can barely sustain a brigade, a few ships, and a few...

I would rather see a internal pivot. Currently we could not defend our country if attacked by the largest potential threat to us, that is fact not conjecture. If we cannot meet our own defence needs why are we looking at aiding others?

Depends on how the job is set up. Making a skilled tradesman? 4+ years, usually by year 3-4 they can be decent depending on the individual. Making a skilled operator? Depends on the job. Some places it is a week worth of training and they can effectively do it. Others it will be years due to...

Turning America from a global power to a regional one step at a time.

My shop has that issue. Hired ticketed machinists but they weren't capable of doing the job/being trained to work on what we needed effectively. Refusal to get rid of them during probation and now has more than a few guys only capable of the most basic tasks. Anything more complicated and they...

The longer you wait to recruit people, the more likely the best candidates will go elsewhere. Risk adverse slow recruiting doesn't necessarily result in the best case for the CAF either. Root out the worst quick and move on, the CAF chooses to make this big production out of recruiting and...