I’ve said this before, but Canada needs to start manufacturing drones. Like yesterday. Put the factories far from the border.
The United States can’t manufacture shit so yeah, Canada should step up and prepare.
Unlike with Greenland, U.S. officials say Trump isn’t trying to annex Canada. Instead, he aims to partner with Prime Minister Mark Carney to shore up the country’s defenses
Does anyone else think these threats against Greenland – and earlier, Canada – might be intended to spur increases in other nations’ defense spending? If Trump pushes all of Western Europe and Canada buying billions of dollars of military gear (through threats or “partnerships”) most of that funding is going to defense contractors in the USA.
I doubt Trump realizes or intends that, because his brain is basically pudding, but it’s possible his handlers/donors in the military complex are pushing for it.
The rest of NATO needs to step up and make a military exercise off the coast of Canada as a show of force that it shouldn’t be messed around with even among allies.
Canada itself should start a military exercise where it practises laying landmines. No need to practise picking them up though, there’s plenty of time for that later.
That would be a violation of the Ottawa treaty.
And landmines don’t actually stop an army, they just slow it down and inhibit maneuver.
The supplementary reserve of 300,000 citizen soldiers that’s being planned is a better idea. There would be no stopping a US invasion, but 300,000 resistance fighters ensures the US would lose the occupation, as it usually does.
All the Greenland story is about Canada mostly IMO.
Read the article, people.
He’s actually taking a much softer stance on Canada, and that’s worth paying attention to.
Oh, I’m not saying he has benevolent intentions toward Canada, lol.
But he’s not looking to get us particularly riled either.
One, he wants to keep tensions with Europe away from his border.
Two, he is deathly afraid that real Americans that haven’t drunk his kool-aid will have a place to flee, regroup and fight.
Yeah and to be honest we DO need to do more to protect the Arctic. We just also need to protect ourselves form the jackasses south of the border.
Canada needs to put the Gripen factory on an accelerated track, cancel the entire F-35 order, and move ahead with an immediate purchase of min. 50 Gripens using the F-35 funds to cover the gap and train up pilots until Gripens start rolling out of the factory.
Canada’s complete F-35 promise will cost the country $28,000,000,000 ($28B) with billions more needed to bring them up to full operational efficiency, and yet the Gripen costs only $65,000,000 ($65M) per aircraft, allowing us to buy 430 fully-functional Gripen jets instead of 88 partially functional F-35 jets.
Remember: tech superiority does not win battles. Sheer numbers do. WWII demonstrated this overwhelmingly on many different fronts, with many different technologies.
As just one example, the Germans had Tiger tanks that could face off against 6-8 Shermans at a time and win with barely a scratch on their hull, but when 10, 20, or even more came roaring over the hilltop for every Tiger that was fielded, their tech superiority ended being absolutely useless. They got overrun and overwhelmed with sheer numbers.
The F35 can be rendered equally as useless with enough Gripens in the air.
And the Gripens don’t come with a remote kill switch like the F-35 does.
Agree with everything you say, and yes quantity has a quality of its own, but I think that in addition we should fly the Gripens and the F35s that we have against each other and figure out how to beat the F35s with the Gripens. Then share that info with our new allies. If we need to modify or augment the Gripens then we can work with the Swedes to do that.
We can already figure much of that out from the technological specifications of the F-35. Simply looking at the capabilities can give us strong clues on how to neuter or at least limit the inherent F-35 advantages from a tech standpoint.
The rest of that comes down to how the pilot behaves, and what tactics they have been trained in. And this is where differences in training, corps attitudes, and even pilot personalities can dramatically affect performance.
And while I fully agree with you in regards to pilot training, our problem is that a Canadian fighter pilot is likely to behave (tactic chain, decision trees, emotional responses, etc.) considerably differently than an American fighter pilot. As such, while we need to train our pilots in Gripen jets against F-35 jets in combat-like scenarios, we need to do so against American pilots, not Canadian ones.
And that’s the tough part - how do we get the American administration to willingly play along with activities that are obviously meant to train our pilots to fight theirs, and gain a consistent toehold against pilots in F-35s even if it means losing a few Gripens for every one of their F-35s. It needs to be done with a great deal of subtlety and subterfuge.
I’m not suggesting we ask the Americans to help us discover exploits, and I’m sure there are more than just pilot-related exploits. These are very complex systems.
Both are waste of time and money. US has over 2000 fighter jets. In hand.
So? They are attacking Venezuela, Iran (it’s coming), Greenland (ie NATO), AND Canada - they will be stretched too thin and are run by incompetents. The rest of the world dumps the dollar and Us treasury bonds, the dollar is no longer the reserve currency for oil, and they are kneecapped. We do that and disrupt their supply chains and a big part of the problem is solved.
It’s a lot harder for America to accept attacking Canada is the casualties will be 100,000 instead of 10,000
US has over 2000 fighter jets. In hand.
And they can’t deploy them all at the same time on the same target, unless they risk being vulnerable elsewhere
The objective is not to win. Winning against America’s imperial might is impossible.
The objective is to make them bleed as much as possible. To make victory as phyrric and as painful for them as possible. And when going up against the most expensive war plane in human history, this means choosing the aircraft that can get as technologically close as possible with as many units as possible on a per-dollar-spent basis.
We can make them bleed much more with 420 fully-functional Gripens than we can with 88 partially-functional F-35s that can be remotely shut down against our will.
The US always wins the invasion but pretty much always loses the occupation.
Air power isn’t how you win, because it’s hard to hide a jet fighter. Assault rifles, RPGs, IEDs and a willingness to fight longer than they’re willing to is what’s needed to win the occupation.
Americans forget that Canadians served in Afghanistan. But I don’t. I know someone who diffused IEDs over there, pretty sure he knows how to build them if needed.
Competent pilots cost too. We need to invest in unmanned capabilities much more. All humans should just be behind their desks fighting a war remotely from Hawaii or something
That’s a funny Canadian place.
Ikr. It’s a tropical island in canada
Us gear has kill switches in it.
Not only that, for decades now it’s been rumoured the us has secret code on most all computers, a kill switch, blue screen of death.
I bet corporations have their own.
As far as regular CPUs go, it’s not a rumour. Any AMD or Intel CPU made in the last 15 years can be remotely disabled via the network, even if the device is turned off (but connected to power).
Do you know how that manifests? Like if they killswitched it remotely, how would it stop working do we know?
I don’t know how it behaves on ARM (so Apple’s SOCs or your phone) but on Intel or AMD there are two manifestations:
They can intercept data and manipulate memory, and that’s pretty much transparent, you wouldn’t know unless you were a very advanced user running specific tests.
Or they can literally just brick the chip. It blows a few electronic fuses and corrupts it’s own firmware, you press the button to turn on the device and it doesn’t respond and will never respond again. Those fuses are permanent, once bricked its gone.
Canada and EU really need to reconsider their option on this.
canada are you still visiting DISNEY, florida, dont.
Boycott US products and services in general too. Switch your online accounts to non-US companies. If you have investments, pull them out of the USA.
For the Canadians : shop app is a part of shopify to replace Amazon. Plus you can filter it to Canadian only. Canadian tire is like Amazon but in RL.
Petrocan
Go Canada computers instead of best buy
Gem
Kobo instead of kindle or audible.
Where you can’t find a Canadian substitute for American: get a European one. They are usually way better quality than American anyways. Better standards
Petrocan stock is majority owned by an American hedge fund. Elliott Investment Management.
Can you expand further and explain Elliot investment?
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Why anyone would visit disneyland over a national park or coral reef idk in the first place.
Lmao, straight up he’s got no fucking attention span or patience. He’s just going in circles pushing on issues, trying to find one that will budge with just mean words rather than having to spend money or do anything material.
He wants some sort of “win” something concrete he can point to and say “look how much we’re winning” because his poll numbers are in the toilet. He’s surrounded him self with incompetent yes men who keep failing to give him meaningful results, and he’s terrified of losing the house and senate in 11 months.
he’s terrified of losing the house and senate in 11 months
This makes me think you’re a bot shilling hope that isn’t real
This makes me think you’re a bot shilling hope that isn’t real
This makes me think you’re a bot shilling apathy to prevent the GOP from losing.
Apathy? Wake the fuck up to what is going on. Voting alone won’t fix things.
That’s the message that won the GOP the last election. Are being paid by them, or did you just believe someone else paid by the GOP who told you not to vote?
I never said don’t vote.
I said don’t depend on simply voting to fix things.
Don’t sit around for another year expecting the midterms will fix things.
Do you think complaining on the internet will fix things?
Voting is an action people can do. Once people are able to do some form of action, they could be encouraged to further action. Americans are currently below the bar of even voting. You think they’re going to do more than voting if they can’t even do that?
Y’all are so much in love with the romanticized myth of the American revolution you believe that if you write some pretty words about freedom and equality there will be another “clean revolution” that will solve all of your problems. The reality is that your “founding fathers” were slave masters, their pretty words were hypocrisy meant to fool regular people into fighting and dying so that the wealthy slave masters could get wealthier by killing the indigenous people living to the west and taking their land. People were tortured for any dissent, there were massive numbers of refugees from the US during the revolution because of how oppressive the government was.
All of your rights actually came from voting, not from the bullshit fairy tale about “founding fathers” they indoctrinated you into believing from a very young age.
lol
What would you suggest we do?
Only one thing will help, to organize. Methinks innumerable groups on a general forum cooperating on what they agree on. Federated, it could be fediverse, should be, we just need to get started.
Cooperating publicly and privately as we see fit, we could find and groom good candidates for 2028. Ones suppoeting popular reform. It would not take that many people for that end.
Get a gun for self defense and go to the range at least once a month. Organize community watches and mutual aid networks with your neighbors. Start creating relationships which pull away from the central supply chain, form community networks to supply needs and services locally and mutually: tool library, seed library, multiple large community gardens (no I’m not naive enough to think this will replace a grocery store), and any other services that are needed.
If you have the means, buy another gun, preferably a rifle or shotgun. Train with that. Start encouraging others in your community to arm themselves for self defense. Form a well organized militia.
Distribute organizing to others so you don’t burn out. Help others start their journey of community action. Then they start book clubs to read theory and praxis, then they can teach foraging techniques. Eventually, others in your community are learning skills which you didn’t have time for or didn’t interest you. That’s the point of community, not everyone has to be good at everything. Now you have people who can set up a local intranet with copper wires and servers to maintain crucial information offline, in case the internet goes down or is shut off by the government. You have those who can knit faster than you’ve ever seen and are providing socks and hats for everyone.
The Utopian and end goal of all this is to form resilient and thriving communities not dependent on the state and corporations for their needs. And yes, that would take a long time to get there. But for me, my admittedly Herculean dream is eventually those community gardens would become vertical farms and inspire other communities to practice the same. The construction crews in your area would become coops and with their needs provided would slowly start doing community projects, that the doctors and teachers would separate themselves from the state apparatus and serve their neighbors in mutual methods, bringing their passion and skills into the community.
But even if we don’t get to that end stage, or if that doesn’t appeal to you, mutual aid is still wonderful and any bit of it is beneficial and forms networks of trust. I’m not saying don’t vote, but know that the state and powerful are counting on you to place your trust in that one action and nothing else. Don’t give them that satisfaction.
Isn’t voting what caused this mess?
Democrats being captured by big money ultimately caused it. Throwing elections. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise, this was always going to result with these dems leading the opposition.
Without a new deal, and some aggressive party machining at this point, there is zero chance of avoiding a fascist one party kakistocracy.
Something something Epstein files
something something putin and epsteinfile/pee tapes over krasnov.
He’s a Russian asset. He’s trying to destabilize the US as well as NATO, and our other allies. The more time we spend on infighting, the less likely we’ll be to stand up to our enemies
If he’s not a Russian agent, I don’t see how an actual one could do a better job destabilizing the US and NATO than he is.
its either him, or thier backup agents in the gop, and of course TULSI gabbard.
pretty obvious hes using all the russian talking points too.
I guess he’s going to annex every ally at this point. Make America NATO Again!
just like putin wanted him to say.
Just shut the fuck up already. We’re all done with you.
and the US isn’t getting a pass when this is over. maybe in a few generations IF they hold the fascists to account and implement systemic change.
40% of Americans are all in on this shit, with another 10% undecided, fuck that country
HEY! Fuck that country since at least the 50’s!
Two be fair many other countries have the same issue but it doesn’t have such horrendous consequences because they don’t have a two party system.
IMHO countries that claim to be democracies should switch to Lottocracy anyway. That’s the only way we end up with decision makers that don’t just do stuff to get voted again.
The two party system is all too common in way too many countries; a good chunk of us has probably spent most of our lives, and will probably spend the rest of them, seeing stupid people being elected because the alternative is another clown from the other team. What nobody else has is the firepower of the next 20 nations combined. To the surprise of absolutely fucking nobody, too much power can turn you into a bully. The US military complex needs to be dismantled by the rest of the imperial core or the imperial core won’t last much longer, and let’s not even get started with the UN.
It feels like the world is in a late game stage of Civilization and the most recent hotseat player is just fed up with the grind and feels like nuking something.
Anything to stop the LGBTQ+ Culture victory.
Bring it fucking on! No longer elbows up, time to drop the gloves!
Fighting Nazis sounds fun. Pussies.
Doesn’t sound fun to me.
It’s gonna be fuckin miserable and agonizing but it’ll be a hell of a lot better than the alternative.
The alternatives are:
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Fight the nazis
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Nazis
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No longer elbows up
It’s time for Chi Chis Up!
We’ll that would be an interesting front on the upcoming war with the rest of NATO.
Seems like fucking with Canada would not be the best idea. Didn’t work out so well for America the last time it happened (the war of 1812). And this time Canada would have more allies in the fight than just a small contingent of the Britain military and some of the native American tribes.
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