Dougie93

The Empire of Liberty is appropriately responding to Canada falling under the control of Beijing, ultimately as necessary to the threshold of deposing the Canadian government, but that is still some ways off at this juncture. /shrugs

Big Daddy Trump President of Canada is however rendering creative destruction upon the infantilized nanny socialist welfare dingbats, which is all to the good.

The Empire of Liberty continues to relentlessly pursue a viable conterforce option to acceptable causalities as contingency for said eventuality, de facto if not de jure Otherwise known as Full Spectrum Dominance.

The inevitable collapse in of itself is the threat vector, in that you can only go to the well so many times and get Mikhail Gorbachev and One World Kumbaya, at any roll of the dice however, it could result in escalatory spiral to the breach of insensate spasm, see; Herman Kahn,

Except the Soviets at least had an ideology, simply with a kleptocracy barnacled unto it, whereas Russia is just a kleptocracy. Vladimir V. Putin is a kleptocrat, but to a purpose, which is to be able to survive in a kleptocracy so that he can engage in revanchism to reclaim glory lost by military defeat and economic collapse, particularly to the Russian Near Abroad Russo-Hegenomy.

Creative destruction ftw.

Brilliantly post modern, the message is the medium Marshall Mcluhan, bulls in China shops become appropriate as necessary, Hurly Burly in effect, God bless America.

Trump is expanding, because at first I was skeptical but as it was explained to me by freedom loving Red State libertarian and limited government conservatives I came to see the genius of it, to include them being the ones running it and not him, him simply being their messenger.

You don't seem to grasp the fundamentals of being a soldier of the crown. First off, a soldier of the crown is a mercenary for all intents and purposes, the only democratic part is said soldier is free to decide which crown he chooses to defend and uphold. Otherwise known as taking the Queen's Schilling. Second, said soldier is then part of a chain of command to which he reports. Said chain of command will direct his actions by what are called "orders" There are standing orders and there are operational orders, in any operational order the chain of command could direct you to fight to the last, but that is extremely rare. Otherwise a professional solider operates by mission command, which is to follow the commander's stated intent taking the intiative as necessary. Canada is not a People's Republic, I am not some zealot who fights for dolts who don't even have a real country and do not know nor understand the central narrative of their own history. The sovereign I choose to defend and uphold is simply the British Crown at Buckingham Palace in defence of British Parliamentary Supremacy. All that is well above the level of Canada's Confederation which I am not bound to by any oath nor allegiance, other than as a tethered tax jurisdiction and a hockey team. I was in command of what I was in command of, and I was decorated and thanked for my service by the Minister of Defence and Chief of the Defence Staff If you would like to enlist in HM Canadian Armed Forces that is your option and when they put you in command of something then you will be able to run it how you like.

This agreement coming about only because of accident of history when James Madison failed to take the Canada's for the American Republic as the Crown was expecting him to be able to do and hedging for that, but a British General recruited a small army and made a agreement with an Indian Hegemonic leader, resulting in the Grand River Mohawks being at the Heights of Queenston, and after the General was killed in the opening volley, said Mohawks came to the rescue, inciting the much larger American force to flee, many jumping to their deaths upon the rocks below, because they had a deeply ingrained fear of being taken by natives to be roasted at the stake and skinned alive. So then Britain was stuck with it. The solution was a NATO/NAFTA style compact between Dominions, so Britain could get back to just running the fun part of the Empire in India and Far East, rather than this frozen hardship posting here.

Correct. Her person, is literally the state. Altho, that state is actually the House of Windsor, not "Canada". "Canada" is Confederation, which was simply an agreement, similar to NAFTA, or NATO, which was never intended to be its own country separate from an Empire.

My only interest in the theater is the House of Windsor which is protected UKUSSA, not NATO.

Agreed, particularly as Ivan doesn't have the horses to make it past Transnistria by that route, which is again, quite far from my tethered tax jurisdiction.

Never actually had that many on the trace, Group Soviet Forces Germany in defense of the Potsdam Agreement was more like 20 divisions in 5 armies.

Actually, what happened was, the British and Canadians talked America into it because they invoked "Collective Security" which would then allow them to fund their nanny welfare states.

Show us in the text of the Washington Treaty where it stipulates any specific military operational contribution.

Doesn't have the horses to get past the Vistula, which is pretty far away from my tethered tax jurisdiction here. /shrugs

We catch up with that in the other thread, but in that thread BC said he's not worried about the Russians, because MAD is in effect. Whether I agree or not is neither here nor there, I didn't say it he did.

And this again is all inclusive to failed state, because the American strategic deterrent is de facto over Canada, alleviating the very pressure which incites Westphalian nation states in the firt place, resulting in Canada aborting after lift off and never actually reaching the threshold of Westphalia at all.

You said that Ivan is contained, stable mutual vulnerability, so who's afraid of Mr. Ivan again and why?

Because inside the nanny bubble of Canada the howling winds of realpolitik don't blow, so they never feel them, so they don't know that being Batman is a burden requiring blood and treasure down range, so it never occurred to them that they might not want to dance out onto the ice in the big leagues, lest they get rocked into the boards resulting career ending concussion.

I've given up hectoring the laggards long time ago, when I realized it was all inclusive to failed state asymmetry which creates a de facto dictatorship by Ontario in the name of bribing Quebec with Alberta's money, and none of that requires any conventional military forces at all.

Almost all the defence contractors lead to foreign arms manufacturers, so the government would very much prefer to pork barell with domestic interests rather than funneling money offshore to BAE Systems, LockMart and the like. Canada's economy is not interdependent from your economy, it's the nanny socialist welfare gulag special economic zone you are propping up so the Indians don't go Taliban on them and then you have to come up there and sort it out.

Nonsense, easily carrying a $20 trillion mortgage from a market which needs you more than you need us, while you make $20 trillion a year. You're covered. What is simply tapped out is your appetite for military adventure at this juncture in the wake of the sad and failed Iraq War. Which is rational and entirely your prerogative. Altho, I'm still holding LockMart, so keep on buying those F-35's, would you?

And this is ultimately how we are going to free them all, but its not going to happen overnight, multi generational project ongoing and in progress, setbacks notwithstanding.