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AssassinsMace

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What does it say when you brag about how many allies you have when they're all countries that have nothing at home and are historic invaders of others countries in the world? Countries that have strategic resources that the US and its allies need are shifting away from them and that's happening because of China. So what does their alliance mean when it's only a matter of default that the countries that have nothing have to join together to get they want in the world?

It's more clear than ever that being in an alliance with the West is all about controlling those countries in that alliance more than protection from the outside. Look at how Western countries are all in trouble when Trump doesn't look at them the same as they do the US. This includes Biden ordering all countries to comply to US policies especially on trade. The countries' economies have been suffering the most ever since their heights in history. Look at how Biden ordered all foreign allied countries' companies to give them all their data so the US can tell them who they can do business with and what they can sell to them. And all of them are in trouble because China won't play ball with them. That's why the narrative has been to concentrate on how many allies the US has because that's the only way they see China submitting by believing it doesn't want to be left out. They're the ones that taunted decoupling with China. Then they had to change it de-risking. Why? Because decoupling requires both sides to disconnect with one another and they still needed China. That's how important it is for China to buy from them. It's all a bluff to show false strength or else they would have no problem with decoupling by the very definition of the word.
 

A potato

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What does it say when you brag about how many allies you have when they're all countries that have nothing at home and are historic invaders of others countries in the world? Countries that have strategic resources that the US and its allies need are shifting away from them and that's happening because of China. So what does their alliance mean when it's only a matter of default that the countries that have nothing have to join together to get they want in the world?

It's more clear than ever that being in an alliance with the West is all about controlling those countries in that alliance more than protection from the outside. Look at how Western countries are all in trouble when Trump doesn't look at them the same as they do the US. This includes Biden ordering all countries to comply to US policies especially on trade. The countries' economies have been suffering the most ever since their heights in history. Look at how Biden ordered all foreign allied countries' companies to give them all their data so the US can tell them who they can do business with and what they can sell to them. And all of them are in trouble because China won't play ball with them. That's why the narrative has been to concentrate on how many allies the US has because that's the only way they see China submitting by believing it doesn't want to be left out. They're the ones that taunted decoupling with China. Then they had to change it de-risking. Why? Because decoupling requires both sides to disconnect with one another and they still needed China. That's how important it is for China to buy from them. It's all a bluff to show false strength or else they would have no problem with decoupling by the very definition of the word.
The western alliance has never been that strong as even the Cold War western countries had disputes between each other. Like France leaving the integrated NATO command in 1966 aswell as the US and USSR strangely enough teaming up to force the UK, France and Israel out of the Suez Canal when they invaded to retake it. There is ofcourse the Cod Wars between Iceland and the UK over Icelandic waters that resulted in Iceland threatning to leave NATO and the US pressuring the UK to stop.
 

zbb

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Everyone should remember that when the West talks about freedom, they're talking about their freedom and not anyone else's. They want the world to believe they're talking about everyone's freedom because it's a great cover that their version of freedom is no different from every dictator who believes in their own freedom only. That's how they're judging what freedom is to them. Look at how many right-wing Republicans talk about how great they are because they believe in freedom. They're certainly not talking about everyone's freedom. They're talking about only their own and then they want to be lauded as some sort of hero because of it. The Republicans love crying about China's social credit system. But they want that for everyone they don't like. They're so paranoid they want anyone they don't like tracked and everything they do monitored.

Bill Maher defends Israel more than he cares about the US. So when he's judging China, he's judging on how much freedom "he" has in China. Why is Israel labelling China as an antisemitic country? It's all because China is not perpetuating the pro-Israel narrative. As with everything else if you don't go out of your way to defend Israel, they see you as antisemitic. Look at how they even said if someone who is Jewish walks outside in the middle of the night and feels unsafe, that's antisemitism. Who's there who committed the crime? Is that freedom where a crime is committed when no one is there? Who gets punished because they didn't go out of there way to make sure anyone who is Jewish feels safe walking out at night on the streets? Bill Maher is repeating exactly the same things that Bar Weiss has said and they're both pro-Israel. Does anyone think they're talking about universal freedom... or only their own? Just look at one of Biden's people in the US State Department who said if China defends itself from being attacked by the US, they're denying the American people of their freedom.
"Land of the Free" in the American National Anthem means a land where the special "free people" are free to enslave everyone else.
 

pmc

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The western alliance has never been that strong as even the Cold War western countries had disputes between each other. Like France leaving the integrated NATO command in 1966 aswell as the US and USSR strangely enough teaming up to force the UK, France and Israel out of the Suez Canal when they invaded to retake it. There is ofcourse the Cod Wars between Iceland and the UK over Icelandic waters that resulted in Iceland threatning to leave NATO and the US pressuring the UK to stop.
Alliances are never strict. Western Europe was largest gas customer of Soviet Union but one thing has fundamentally changed.
The rise of Royal Kingdoms and there view of Israel.
This was Putin response to Arabic moderator that Israel has 2 million Russia speaking people thats why Russia cannot help Iran more. This for Russia internal audience because late Soviet and post Soviet Russia was highly attracted to this Iran (Two declining countries attracted to each other) and there people in Russia who really want to help Iran more but Putin is deflecting it to Israelis.
Putin has perfect understanding where modern science is created and who can implement that enhance science and that he called Russia new elite and he want to make sure they are not in this picture.

 

supersnoop

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At this point idk how the CAF is supposed to operate when the equipment shortages are this bad.

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They're moving all the tanks to CFB edmonton while the rest of the tank units will just use simulators.

Side Note: atleast those people would never have to touch that Tac Vest ever again.
I waited 3 years for Gore Tex boots, never got them…
It’s okay, Canada never gets cold or wet…
I would say it’s less a money issue, more just crippling bureaucracy
 

A potato

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I waited 3 years for Gore Tex boots, never got them…
It’s okay, Canada never gets cold or wet…
I would say it’s less a money issue, more just crippling bureaucracy
Sometimes it's both depending on whats being acquisitioned
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The new C8A4s has the Army ordering 30,000 rifles costing 307 Million dollars (costing around 10233 dollars per rifle). Not even Heckler and Koch or Brugger & Thomet sells rifles this expensive and it's for a rifle that is basically the samething as C7A2 just in a new reciever and handguard.


There is of course the tacvest where they have been trying to replace it since 2009 and it's been 16 years and it hasn't been replaced for the most part
 
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