SpaceCowboy @ SpaceCowboy @lemmy.ca

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I agree, but I'm not confident that Trump understands that.

We saw in his meeting with Zelenskyy that Trump is afraid of Putin. He doesn't have any concept of honour and respect. He thinks respect is the same ad fear. So we need something to make Trump afraid.

In such a scenario we'd affect Congress by making it one of many targets in a war. Americans need to stop thinking of this as a fun little thought experiment and start thinking of it how it would really be: a bloody war on the North American continent that will directly impact you.

We Canadians don't exist just to be just tools of American politics, no matter which side of those politics you may be on. We're a country and we will defend our country through any means available. We don't want to be part of some bullshit Electoral College that was devised by your bullshit slave master "founders".

Yeah he's not considering consent of people in other countries at all.

Smells like victory.

Proportional representation only looks good on a spreadsheet. It's terrible when you consider power dynamics, which you should when thinking about political systems.

I voted NDP last time around, but Singh is an idiot, and no one respects an idiot. Why did he want to vote no confidence to have an early election which would result in a CPC majority? He got too caught up in political bullshit, and I can't respect him.

The priority now is to prevent Poilievre from getting into power. Singh isn't the guy to do that, Carney is.

They can't shut them off. They can do something like MS is doing with EOLing Windows 10 tho. No more security updates, which in this case means they'd over time become more vulnerable to adversary ECM jamming.

They could cut off a country from getting parts needed to keep the planes flying which is actually more significant. It wouldn't be easy, but a country could replace the computer systems in a jet. A military has it's own technicians maintain their equipment and they would understand which signals are needed from the cockpit to make the plane work.

The Lockheed Martin could shut down the planes thing is FUD and isn't convincing anyone in the know. The potential for cutting a country off from resupply is real, and the US has done that to Ukraine, a country in the middle of a war.

Only comedy revolving around punching down is legal. Joke around about punching up... that's illegal now.

Not only boycotts, it'll also be a prime target for retaliatory tariffs. So for even those that don't care about the boycott, a Roomba will cost at least 25% more than the equivalent robot vacuum made in Korea.

On Dec. 17, 2019, my husband, Rodner, and I went to our local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office with our attorney for a routine check-in, a requirement of his pending green card. About an hour later, my lawyer emerged and told me Rodner was being deported.

Dude was deported when Trump was in office. But sure, blame Biden for it to show how committed you are to being uncommitted.

This isn't actually all that unusual. Most countries do most of their trade with their neighbouring countries for logistics reasons. To actually implement diversified trade would require the government enact policies preventing Canadian businesses from doing trade with the US, or maybe having export taxes or whatever. A business that can make money selling to the US isn't going to just turn that money down, right? There would be an ongoing cost to maintain those policies, all to avoid a hypothetical future cost of diversifying the economy if that trading partner suddenly went insane.

Now there are things the government could do like developing infrastructure needed to make sure we have the capability to trade with other countries. Like a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific for example. Perhaps more projects like this should've been done, but these kinds of things aren't cheap and how much money do you spend to protect against future economic problems?

Also they could pursue trade agreements with other trading partners... and that happened too. There's the CPTPP on the Pacific side and CETA with the EU. Unfortunately we're still waiting on EU members ratify CETA, but not much we can do about that.

So yeah, it's a lot of hindsight is 20/20 with this kind of thing. As with most things, the government could have done better, but they did do some things Ok. But having a neighbouring country suddenly batshit is always going to cause trade problems.

Sorry but my source for procurement doesn't have that level of detail for the Gripen. It may be classified.

https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/search/?q=gripen

How else am I supposed to get the demons out?

Well if all of your prompts are true, then isn't it just having the AI analyze the facts?

Trump, "Doctor" Phil, "Doctor" Oz...

Is Oprah a Bond villain secretly orchestrating all of the evil in the world?

It's like you can't betray your allies and turn your country into a fascist shithole anymore. Well you can, but then some woke mob will calmly tell you that what you're doing is bad and I don't want my children being around that negativity!

Trump won't outlive the F35, but the distrust of the US will.

The US cut off military supplies to a country (Ukraine) during an active conflict. Trump did this as leverage in a negotiation. That's a line that can't be crossed, and he crossed it. There were no articles of impeachment, and most Americans didn't pay it any mind. So this is how Americans do business now.

So we should expect the US to use military supplies as leverage in negotiations going forward. Using US equipment means CAF's readiness is in constant peril for the foreseeable future. Currently it's at the whims of a deranged old man. But it will always be a bargaining chip for future US Presidents.

The only way to ensure CAF readiness is to end the use of all US equipment. It's not solely about Trump, it's about what the US has become.

I think everyone is thinking the same way. I think the probability of the US invading is low, but there is a probability.

Even if the US never uses their military against us, there's a very real chance they withhold parts for military equipment as leverage in a negotiation. They are already withholding military aid from Ukraine as leverage after all. That alone makes it imperative we end Canada's dependency on the US defense industry.

This looks like a good idea. We do have people in Lunenberg, NS that have experience with working with stealth materials which could be a significant contribution to that project.

Could we call it the Arrow? Though I'd also be cool with it being called Spitfire.

But does the Eurofighter come in a flat pack with an allen key and a booklet that vaguely indicates how to assemble it?