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RCAF helicopters depart Edmonton Monday en route to Alaska training mission

Six CH-146 Griffon helicopters will depart Edmonton on Monday en route to a training exercise in Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

edmontonjournal.com

It was always slightly daunting to see our little 'light brigade' overwhelmed by all the ships, tracks and and 'aluminum overcast' when the US Marines arrived in Norway for the big final NATO exercise.

Who was more committed to defending the northern flank? Hmmmm....

Glass half full: like the Russians, as enemy force, they were pretty much confined to the roads so we could practise our motti tactics

 

[Kirkhill]

It was always slightly daunting to see our little 'light brigade' overwhelmed by all the ships, tracks and and 'aluminum overcast' when the US Marines arrived in Norway for the big final NATO exercise.

Who was more committed to defending the northern flank? Hmmmm....

Glass half full: like the Russians, as enemy force, they were pretty much confined to the roads so we could practise our motti tactics

I wonder if we would be here today if Canada had volunteered to buy that task force for the CAST commitment it made and manned it accordingly?

 

[HavokFour]

The tantrum continues.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Quantity doesn't equal quality in this case...


‘You don’t want to live inside his head’: diplomats’ dilemma in the age of Trump

Flood of boasts, broadsides and conspiracy theories leaves envoys sifting for the signal within the Trumpian noise



How does one keep tabs on, and then interpret, a president who in a single year sent out more than 6,000 social media posts, conducted more than 433 open press events and held free-associating press conferences lasting close to two hours? The White House Stenographer’s Office calculates it has transcribed 2.4 million of Trump’s words, four times the length of Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace.

Tracking Trump is not just a problem for exhausted reporters – but also exhausted diplomats, who are tasked with searching for the signal in the ceaseless Trumpian noise.

Western diplomats have upgraded their media monitoring operations to take account of Trump’s habit of dropping an explosive policy announcement or launching an unexpected incendiary broadside against an ally at almost any point in the 24/7 news cycle.

Foreign ministries now also have to look out for the private texts of their boss reappearing on Truth Social.

‘You don’t want to live inside his head’: diplomats’ dilemma in the age of Trump

The president’s onslaught of boasts, broadsides and conspiracy theories leave envoys sifting for the signal within the Trumpian noise

www.theguardian.com