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The other people that closed the strait and demanded a toll...

If nobody was willing to deal with Iran when they were doing it, who is going to try to stop America?

I'd suggest that in serious countries, this is how things have always operated to some extent. We just got too comfortable being unserious, and buying a few toys on occassion from whoever promised a new french fry plant in return.

Well, in the middle of a trade war we didn't start, and facing a global shift in power, international networks are worth more than a good interview with an apple... I don't hate, or even dislike PP. I'm just highlighting that doors are open for Canada on the international stage that wouldn't...

Don't be mad because PEI made a smarter deal joining confederation than some others... Fancy bridge(eventually), four senators, and the railway debt cleared? Who wouldn't take that deal?

You keep looking at this as an "all or nothing", but the world doesn't work that way. Iran can threaten shipping, America can waffle, and the rest of the world can accept a greater risk to shipping. All three can happen to various degrees at the same time. Iran needs an end to the game as much...

This part makes the rest of your post irrelevant... Iran has one trick, and it's not actually that great of a trick. They can sink some ships, some of the time. Eventually, economics makes ships and sailors disposable enough to start to ignore their trick. We aren't there yet, bet let's not...

It isn't about being able to ask for meetings, it's about having a network pre-built that opens more doors. Ever CAF leader worth anything understands the power of a network, and that power is multiplied exponentially as a national leader. PMMC has a far wider and more diverse network than a...

Except it has been... and the cost of allowing Iran to control the oil supply to Asia is far greater than a few dead sailors and sunk ships. Piracy and Houthi's didn't end shipping through the BAM/GoA, Iran can't indefinitely stop shipping through the straits. This shitshow is dragging on...

They may find the more they try to squeeze, the more the world accepts the risk. The threat of action is often more powerful than action. People have been quick to apply that wisdom to America's strikes on Iran, but many seemed to ignore the same applies to Iran. Iran can't hit every ship...

I love the idea, but would adjust it slightly. Offer the training to anyone, paid. We need mechanics/plumbers/linemen in towns without trade schools as well as in towns with them. Make the training paid, demand 2-3 years full-time service where they are needed, then move them back home to...

CANSOF is no more immune to "shiny" than the rest of the CAF, and they tend to have more money to throw at toys... What does the JTLV offer to non-combat troops that the Senator doesn't, and what is the price delta?

The CAF updates it's blue fleet in small batches as they age-out, the CAF isn't a stranger to what large companies or businesses do. The problem is the green fleet, where there is extra training and unique parts requirements. Even TPS' cruisers are a completely off-the-shelf solution from a...

Who is going to vaccinate the locals? The people purportedly dumping the dead cows close to Ukranian populations in the occupied zones?

Thats what a real war looks like. We forget that, because the last war on home soil ended in 1814. Russia and Ukraine have experience of burned cities in living memory, so have some cultural immunity to it.

The only think Canadian production would do is further delay getting the subs. If we had a useful sub fleet now, developing a shipyard that could trickle new boats into the fleet would make some sense.

I dont think anyone is mad about the boat, I think people are quite worried about actually getting the boats on time. The TKMS schedule is already full, and it is entirely reasonable to expect delays. By choosing Germany, Canada is choosing to join a giant queue, rather than go to the...

Except you didn't use those examples, and didn't elaborate, making it seem more like when called-out, you shifted the goal posts. Lets suppose that was you intent though. Who raised those parents who failed their kids? Your generation.... As for farms, how many kids are there close enough to...

That's what technology does... When you buy the MS Office suite you get that capability tossed in, no need to hire a young person. Posts like this only add to the notion that most of the people calling young people lazy have no idea of the reality in the workplace these days.

Is the land your house sits on less "tainted" by empropriation? Did you pay the government of France for your land? What about the Mi'kmaq? Does 1943 magically make 24 Sussex less legitimate than any other expropriation?