America has voted in Trump and (insert what you said because you have less strikes here than I do and I have been told to not call anyone including the President of the United States anything that might be conceived as a insult) twice now. This is not an aberration. The USA will have been run by Trump for 8 of the last 12 years by 2028. And MAGA doesn't end with Trump. Up to and until MAGA is purged from the republican party, assume that MAGA is due to be elected every 4 years and will do a lot of the same stuff.
Did Japan? Last I checked Japan still refuses to acknowledge the war crimes they committed and apologize for them (and their war crimes make the Nazis seem tame).
Even if we get the Gripen and it doesn’t work out for us, we can always sell them off second hand to some middle/low power country which would be happy to have them.
Well said sir. And Unit 731 IIRC was the nastiest of all.
ask the Canadian soldiers building a railroad through Burma about that> Oh wait many of them were exterminated through disease, malnutrition, and beatings. Ask the friendship women from China. Ask the folks who starved to death because all the rations went to their army. The death toll in their concentration camps was extremely high as well. But no, they didn't have any incinerators or poison gas showers so I suppose you could get away with not calling it genocidal but it was definitely an extermination programme. (PLEASE not the correct spelling for programme
True - 100% true
They weren’t but Unit 731 was their research unit. Medical research. Apparently even the Nazis were WTF??
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The UK being broke since brexit does not mean the goal of the project is not worthy.
They didn’t need extermination camps, they just killed them on the spot or dragged them away to be worked to death. Their slave labour had a 10-20% death rate in 7 years.
Do you remember anything about another group of wing nuts in the US called the Tea Party? Where are they now? Politically dead and gone. Maga will be swept into the dustbin of history, whether it’s in 3-4 yrs or 9-10yrs, either way they will be gone.
The tea party never took over the party, the tea party never won the presidency, never mind twice.
www.nbcnews.com
So no, this isn't going to the dustbin of history. This is the present reality. So we get the internationalists in the Democrats, to the limits that in and of itself represents, and then the burn it all down MAGA in the republicans. And if they were willing to vote in Trump not once but twice, they will continue to vote in MAGA presidents who have less baggage, and to our chagrin, may actually be smarter in their excecution of their isolationalist policies. So we need to insulate ourselves, both in NATO and Canada, from that eventuality. That means we cannot just assume that things go back to normal. The Americans need to prove to us, and to the world that MAGA is gone, until then, just assume they are a 4 year election cycle away.
The tea party never took over the party, the tea party never won the presidency, never mind twice.
The Republican party is MAGA.
Polling shows growing number of Republicans identify with the MAGA movement
More than one-third of registered voters identified themselves as MAGA supporters in March's NBC News poll. That includes 71% of Republicans.
So no, this isn't going to the dustbin of history. This is the present reality. So we get the internationalists in the Democrats, to the limits that in and of itself represents, and then the burn it all down MAGA in the republicans. And if they were willing to vote in Trump not once but twice, they will continue to vote in MAGA presidents who have less baggage, and to our chagrin, may actually be smarter in their excecution of their isolationalist policies. So we need to insulate ourselves, both in NATO and Canada, from that eventuality. That means we cannot just assume that things go back to normal. The Americans need to prove to us, and to the world that MAGA is gone, until then, just assume they are a 4 year election cycle away.
That means on trade, we cannot trust or rely on them.
In military alliances, we cannot trust or rely on them.
In territorial integrity, we cannot trust or rely on them.
And in relation to this thread, in terms of military procurement, we cannot trust or rely on them.
