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How much of that is driven by straightforward greed, and how much would disappear if those nations didn't feel a need to appease Moscow?

VA should be an autopilot portfolio! Its inputs writ large (w CAF members at x point in their careers, including y doing things likely to cause damage and z who have suffered some form of trauma) and small (Cpl Bloggins with [specific mental and physical health issues] is releasing in three...

It also puts all those shiny new MPs in a position to be in their ridings for a few months, with at least some interaction with constituents for whatever that's worth in shaping subsequent legislation, committee work, etc.

Naaaaaa who needs one of those? Especially, to accommodate current approaches and demands from both the Reserve and Cadet organizations, a job that allows you to devote significant daytime weekday time and entire summers to the A-day role? I work an arts gig that doesn't follow Mon-Fri over...

I did say almost all, as distinct from Russia's European and Asian neighbours. Are subs still able to pull that sort of approach?

Surface ASW means open ocean work and helicopters, and maybe mothershpped uncrewed things, all of which impose certain size requirements. Nobody in their right mind is looking at a SACKVILLE 2025 as a reasonable deep sea combatant, and almost all of Canada's ASW business will be happening either...

Keeping the right stakeholders out has some value.

Half-serious adjacent question: would breaking everything up into single-battalion units be helpful to the Army's internal politics?

Would one of the more crapulous CPFs travelling up and down the BC coast as a training ship be useful?

What abilities does the Supreme Court have to deputize?

"Let's steal Siberia."

Audible (and ideally visible) air defense activity starting a few minutes in to the event would be good; bonus points if there's something that can blow up on the horizon visible from Red Square.

On the other hand, a Congress that gets a taste for hitting the "nice try, next!" button as far as presidents wouldn't be the worst thing regardless of party.

All the meaningful ones already are. Any further increase in domestic shipbuilding would require building new yards (IIRC all the current ones have maxed out their footprints). Which, yes please, but a) there's no extra people (though let's see if US shipbuilding tradespeople might want to...

Comes to mind that a bunch of happy post-short-contract types, both NCM and officer, would help with the whole "connecting the CAF with Canadians" thing. Dated archetype: a City type with a regimental tie, and regimental ties.

The video of that student activist being picked up by ICE a little while ago seemed ripe for that sort of response, too: a bunch of random guys surrounding someone on the street feels like exactly the sort of scenario a number of US firearms owners worry about and arm themselves to respond to.

The personality of the parties' offerings for PM is as much a part of the platform as X million to one project or another: what are you, party, intending to put in charge of the country, and in charge of implementing your grand platform? Do they seem at least vaguely intelligent and independent...

Which nation?

Might not even need to be something like that, especially if focused on the Army, with an acknowledged, planned-for trio of options at the end of the "be young, go hard, RIP your knees and spine" contract: select into a longer-term career path in the trade, remuster/CFR/otherwise radically...

Plus all the lower-level arming up and eyeballing the neighbours that comes with a less settled approach to borders.