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High oil prices benefit some people. A weak dollar benefits some people. So it goes.

Gee I miss the days when additional LNG development was something to be avoided because it would not be needed.

Ah, seen. My shortcoming.

$2.45/L * 3.8L/USGal = $9.31/USGal, no?

Some people won't want to fight, or at least not force-on-force, but that applies to any war in which Canada has been involved and pretty much every country has the same problem. Simply interrupting all southbound critical flows in ways which cannot be quickly restored can be done without...

The only division for which the word "division" matters is 1 Div, the same way that calling Res F "brigades" as such (rather than "districts" or "areas") doesn't matter much. The domestic "division" and "brigades" are frameworks for expansion as well as various domestic contingencies. Not much...

GoC is upending and reworking all sorts of stuff because the US is a bully. If only it would do China as well.

So easy to rationalize, isn't it? Conflict between US and Iran has been ongoing for over 45 years. The Cold War lasted almost as long, and has sort of entered a phase II. Obviously it's possible to not tolerate tyranny if you're really committed to it, and not satisfied with pretending the...

Yeah, so what if they continue to occupy Tibet and treat Uighurs abysmally. People you can work with, though.

Are you expecting a veto-proof majority? If not, what useful differences do you expect? Another wave of puppies-and-kittens bills containing poison pills designed to make Republicans look like they are opposed to puppies-and-kittens is less helpful than doing only a few useful things.

Calling it a brigade while it has few to no additional supporting units (ie. is not a brigade group) would be perfectly correct.

Awesome. I was beginning to miss Biden's tall tales.

A pig wants to wrestle, and it is interesting to observe who wants to wrestle with him. I certainly am not interested in having any part of Canadian officialdom wrestle on my behalf and thereby worsen the situation. Carney illustrated the correct position when he said something to the effect...

Sure. It is challenging to find Trump allies who want to upend the constitution and institutions of the US and flat-out ignore if not change laws governing immigration, though. While there might be some who want to end or severely curtail the 2A, pack the USSC, abolish the Senate, open the...

Another round of Democrats as they are currently constituted is just more gasoline on the fires. Voters elected Trump twice because of what Democrats did and were doing. What is needed are initiatives that support centrist Republicans who will push the "80" side of the top four or five "80/20"...

Much of its economic policy (tariffs in particular); some of its foreign policy (haphazard war against Iran and belligerent economic and diplomatic activity against real allies); some of its domestic policy (particularly immigration enforcement - the means occasionally used). Much of what some...

Sure, I've never criticized the Trump administration for something like its economic or foreign policies. Don't confuse my two-bit expositions of how things came to be among US conservatives and are likely to proceed as endorsements. Trump was avoidable, if - and almost only if - the political...

A thing about worrying about a few contemporary "conservatives" running to the "far right" is that pretty much the entire far left has loudly been denouncing democratic processes and institutions for decades while advertising their intentions to abolish much of it if they get the chance. They...

Political establishments are remarkable the world over for obstinately refusing to give some of the people some of the things they want, instead refusing to give them much of anything. This is how immoderate politicians and parties (eg. Trump in the USA, AfD in Germany, National Party in...

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