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To misquote Spock: That is illogical. You cannot bring back that which you have never had. The US Navy never had the tradition of rum. Besides, I don't trust their sailors when they are sober, let alone if they were drunk.

All I know is that, according to the US navy itself, the Roosevelt is on its way to relieve the Abraham Lincoln and is already listed as being on a 7 to 8 months deployment. They are now staring from time periods that greatly exceed the normal 6 months maximum deployments of the past. I think...

You are making a mountain out of molehill: They are just checking to make sure they are not bringing their own food or drink to the market. Gotta protect those food vendors you know.

FTFY

ONSAF is dead. Was the basis for 15 RDC, 2 AOR, 5 AOPS and 4 submarines.

:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: Oh! Wait! You was serious about that?

We are not in a position to really bitch about what is about to befall us and the USA. Think of what the Cubans have to contend with and how long it's been. Even cut off from the US we wouldn't suffer as much. And the US couldn't survive with a complete cut off: too many critical minerals...

But do you recommend it? No too long ago, I pulled out and re-read "World Order", by Henry Kissinger to see how it aged (p.s. it aged well and is still one of the best book on the subject). All I can say is that the poor man must be spinning out of control in his grave. We are clearing some...

Farmers never throw anything away. They squirrel everything and put that stuff in a corner of the farm just because "You never know. One of these days, it may come in handy". Mind you, not all of them are like that, but quite a lot of them. When they do a farm auction, they put all that stuff...

Farewell, Jolene!

In the not so distant past, a Minister of Everything, together with Dollar-a-Year managers pulled this country from an agriculture and primary resources economy to an industrial one in four years. We are not starting even remotely as far as that to the stated aim of Humphrey above. Let's make...

If Canada isn't a "friendly shore" for US critical industry, then there are no such countries in the whole world.

First of all, I am happy to see that I am not the only one who likes the Belgian's Castor class. Second, I don't think the logic of 24 surface combatant from the 60's holds anymore. The number, at the time, was derived from the fact that we undertook as one of our NATO obligations to maintain...

I think you are right, that it was part of the reasons. But unless I am mistaken, we are not getting I.P. on the F-35 either.

To my mind, the CDC should be a sort of emergency program. Modules built in various smaller yards, barged to one or two finishing yard for assembly on the East coast and one on the west coast. The finishing yards could be the three yards selected for large vessels. The all ought to be able to...

Contracts and timeline let out for the six medium icebreakers, to replace the 1200 class; https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/carney-icebreakers-announcement-quebec-9.7318504?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-ca

The French did not enter, or more precisely, pulled out of the competition very early, because they considered the competition to have been loaded in favour of the F-35: Aspects where the Rafale excelled over the F-35 were mostly marked as secondary while the ones where the reverse was true were...

Are you suggesting that instead of trying to raise counter-tariffs or export taxes, we should be looking at ways to raise his blood pressure?

Not just them. The most popular light truck in North America too: the Ford F-150 built in Oakville. It's simply not possible for the big three (and everybody else, for that matter) to retool the plants on either side of the border so that they locally produce all the various models of a given...

Yep! As they say: "When you are dealing with a bully, violence never solved anything ... if you don't hit him hard enough."