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The latest report on NATO spending dropped just before the weekend: https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2025/8/pdf/250827-def-exp-2025-en.pdf Page 16 makes clear what coast guard costs can be counted. It doesn't matter if it is or is not part of a defence budget. The only coast...

The CA had remote control M113 with breaching implements in 2002 and deployed the capability to Afghanistan in 2003. I am not significant use of the system in theatre, but at least one BG employed it outside the wire in Kandahar. We let that capability atrophy.

A positive development, but this is not over. https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-8-29-2025

Europe considering its next options to pressure Russia to end its war. Will the EU dare to sanction Russia's closest allies?

They have a 9 mm solution. One shot and the casualty no longer suffers from any disease.

Is he proposing for a Reichsparteitag or a Zа мир без нацизма?

"MAGA is too communist to be fascist" is not a great endorsement or silver lining.

As Aspiring-Putin pursues his expansionist agenda for Greenland, it is worth wondering what he might already be supporting in Canada and parts thereof.

So does Russia. Your statement doesn’t bring missing insight. It doesn’t lessen the illegitimacy of Russian actions. That word does not mean whatever you think it means. The AFU did not overthrow the government.

There seems to be enough internal demand to keep other Canadian armour manufacturers in business already. I am sure another player in the market should do fine.

Did you get lost on your way to a thread about the US?

Apparently one can get a a lifetime ban against entering the US for legally smoking pot in Canada … or, that’s how things panned out for some dude at a Washington/BC crossing on the CBP reality show I stumbled across on some hotel cable channel.

Canada has stated its position that Ukraine must be involved in the process to make decisions on Ukraine’s future. This is the statement Canada needed to make.

No, I get it. Resist "tyranny" but don't resist tyranny because that could get you killed. … of course, rolling over for tyranny can also get you killed when that particular government is also ethnically cleansing the regions & conscripting undesirables into its mean-wave army.

So, Putin’s tyranny should not be resisted by Ukraine because living oppressed would be less costly than fighting to live free? That’s the argument we are getting here right? Can’t help but feel there is hypocrisy from some making this case. It seems to be that tyranny must be resisted, except...

Was that kid who calls himself “Big Balls” really the catalyst that helped Trump deploy the army against homeless people?

It is a nation state, an independent global actor, and a democracy. You use quotation to delegitimize Ukraine’s sovereignty and existence, because that lessens the criminality of what Russia is doing. But Ukraine really is a thing with a right to exist.

Odd to put quotation marks around this word. Like suggesting Ukraine is not real.

Some people believe she should have worn pants if she did not want to be raped. Some people apply the same thinking to nations. It is abhorrent thinking either way.

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