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Kirkhill said:
And more

edmontonjournal.com

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.
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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 ;)
 
daftandbarmy said:
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 ;)
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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?
 
The tantrum continues.


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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.

www.theguardian.com

‘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 www.theguardian.com
 
Kirkhill said:
On single, national, uniformed force with local dets responsive to, and integrated in, the local community seems right enough to me.
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So it seems you would support something akin to a pan-Canadian RCMP? No provincial services, no municipal services? Interesting. The closest that I am aware of is Australia. Each state has a single police service, plus the federal police.

Furniture said:
You have hit a key point that I think people in the services don't appreciate enough.

Seeing Constable Bloggings in uniform, interacting with people in a normal and human way, makes the entire police force (official vocab guidelines say service) more relatable, ergo more legitimate.

Never seeing constables, apart from a car driving past every few weeks, makes the police less legitimate. They become the "other" there to enforce the "other's" laws, not indispensable members of the community who keep people safe.

The average Canadian doesn't care who comes in to investigate the exceptionally rare murder, they care that the people enforcing the law daily are relatable and quasi-local.
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Homicides and other violent crimes against the person are comparatively low in Canada, but the credibility of the service and sense of safety of the community are directly linked to their successful resolution. A low clearance rate of break-ins will be much more tolerated than one in violent crime. It is no coincidence that senior, experienced investigators are assigned to violent crime, and that road cops cut their teeth on barking dogs and property damage collisions, and work their way up. With major, complex investigations, the stakes are too high. Tell the family that rookie investigator might have lost the case, but learned a lot, doesn't cut it.

In rural and smaller communities where there is arguably and closer connection between the residents and police as compared to a large urban area, the person managing the rare homicide may indeed be brought in from away, but the team under them will still be local. They know the players and the landscape. Cross-border and international criminal investigation are different beasts.

If it weren't for inter-agency conflict, most US cop shows would lose their plot lines.
 
lenaitch said:
So it seems you would support something akin to a pan-Canadian RCMP? No provincial services, no municipal services? Interesting. The closest that I am aware of is Australia. Each state has a single police service, plus the federal police.
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To be honest the paymaster doesn't bother me.

I would prefer, as I said, a uniformed force in my neighbourhood that knows the neighbourhood and interacts with it. Part of the community. Not outsiders rotating through with no attachment. If they all come out of the same academy, and follow the same rules and regulations, including enforcing local by-laws, that is fine by me.

Now, the next step up, the cross-jurisdictional types handling serious civil, military, paramilitary and hybrid crimes, then they should absolutely be centralized.

Of course, I am also a fan of a well-regulated militia and local armouries. Just to keep the coppers honest. 😁
lenaitch said:
Homicides and other violent crimes against the person are comparatively low in Canada, but the credibility of the service and sense of safety of the community are directly linked to their successful resolution. A low clearance rate of break-ins will be much more tolerated than one in violent crime. It is no coincidence that senior, experienced investigators are assigned to violent crime, and that road cops cut their teeth on barking dogs and property damage collisions, and work their way up. With major, complex investigations, the stakes are too high. Tell the family that rookie investigator might have lost the case, but learned a lot, doesn't cut it.

In rural and smaller communities where there is arguably and closer connection between the residents and police as compared to a large urban area, the person managing the rare homicide may indeed be brought in from away, but the team under them will still be local. They know the players and the landscape. Cross-border and international criminal investigation are different beasts.

If it weren't for inter-agency conflict, most US cop shows would lose their plot lines.
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Kirkhill said:
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?
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It would be almost amusing watching the various tantrums generated by inter service rivalries. Not to mention watching the Navy deal with its various communities.
After all the only people who hated Naval Aviation more then the Airforce was the rest of the Navy.
 
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Meanwhile, the lowest consumer confidence ratings in 11 years...


Consumer confidence collapses to lowest level since 2014

America’s economic mood deteriorated in January to its lowest level in more than a decade as consumers fretted about geopolitical tensions, affordability and President Donald Trump’s unrelenting trade war.

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index for January, released Tuesday, declined 9.7 points to a reading of 84.5, the lowest since 2014, surpassing the lows of last year when Trump unveiled stiff tariffs and the depths of the pandemic recession in 2020.

January’s reading came in much lower than the 91.1 reading economists projected in a poll by data firm FactSet.

The survey’s indexes for how Americans feel about current economic conditions and their expectations for the US economy’s future both fell sharply this month.


 
daftandbarmy said:
Meanwhile, the lowest consumer confidence ratings in 11 years...


Consumer confidence collapses to lowest level since 2014

America’s economic mood deteriorated in January to its lowest level in more than a decade as consumers fretted about geopolitical tensions, affordability and President Donald Trump’s unrelenting trade war.

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index for January, released Tuesday, declined 9.7 points to a reading of 84.5, the lowest since 2014, surpassing the lows of last year when Trump unveiled stiff tariffs and the depths of the pandemic recession in 2020.

January’s reading came in much lower than the 91.1 reading economists projected in a poll by data firm FactSet.

The survey’s indexes for how Americans feel about current economic conditions and their expectations for the US economy’s future both fell sharply this month.


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Just wait until when the AI bubble in the stock market pops and things go tits up.
 
Yeah, 'drills', that's right ;)


US announces multi-day aerial military drills in the Middle East amid Iran tensions

Exercises described by President Trump as an ‘armada’ to be led by the USS Abraham Lincoln amid standoff

The US has announced plans to hold multi-day military exercises in the Middle East as it deploys what Donald Trump has called an “armada” led by the USS Abraham Lincoln to the region as part of a tense standoff with Iran.

The display of US air power was announced as the White House has suggested it could launch new strikes on Iran after the government’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that has left thousands dead and many more in detention with their fates uncertain.

Air Forces Central, the air component of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), said on Tuesday that it would hold a “multi-day readiness exercise to demonstrate the ability to deploy, disperse and sustain combat airpower across the US Central Command area of responsibility”.

The exercise was “designed to enhance asset and personnel dispersal capability, strengthen regional partnerships and prepare for flexible response execution”, Air Forces Central added in a statement.

The dates, location and list of US military assets to take part in the exercises has not been made public. But the exercise appeared designed to display the US ability to project force into the region as tensions with Iran have escalated.


www.theguardian.com

US announces multi-day aerial military drills in the Middle East amid Iran tensions

Exercises described by President Trump as an ‘armada’ to be led by the USS Abraham Lincoln amid standoff
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
daftandbarmy said:
Yeah, 'drills', that's right ;)


US announces multi-day aerial military drills in the Middle East amid Iran tensions

Exercises described by President Trump as an ‘armada’ to be led by the USS Abraham Lincoln amid standoff

The US has announced plans to hold multi-day military exercises in the Middle East as it deploys what Donald Trump has called an “armada” led by the USS Abraham Lincoln to the region as part of a tense standoff with Iran.

The display of US air power was announced as the White House has suggested it could launch new strikes on Iran after the government’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that has left thousands dead and many more in detention with their fates uncertain.

Air Forces Central, the air component of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), said on Tuesday that it would hold a “multi-day readiness exercise to demonstrate the ability to deploy, disperse and sustain combat airpower across the US Central Command area of responsibility”.

The exercise was “designed to enhance asset and personnel dispersal capability, strengthen regional partnerships and prepare for flexible response execution”, Air Forces Central added in a statement.

The dates, location and list of US military assets to take part in the exercises has not been made public. But the exercise appeared designed to display the US ability to project force into the region as tensions with Iran have escalated.


www.theguardian.com

US announces multi-day aerial military drills in the Middle East amid Iran tensions

Exercises described by President Trump as an ‘armada’ to be led by the USS Abraham Lincoln amid standoff
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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The protests seem to have mostly been suppressed while the CSG was en route, and it sounds like the U.S. is getting a pretty concerted “frig off” from countries in the region regarding basing and overflight. I wonder if they assessed that they missed their best window and are now making a show?

I could be completely wrong and they may still go for it.
 
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