Dougie93

Which is what the Mohawks just pointed out to Gerry Butts up in Ottawa. As bear in mind, the Canadian economy cannot afford for this vital strategic line of communication to even be slowed never mind ground to a halt, ground to a halt degenerates into a national economic crisis quite rapidly.

I find the hereditary chiefs other than the war chiefs of the Mohawks to be tangential, since it is the Mohawk paramilitary wing which is holding a asymmetrical veto over our vital Windsor to Quebec strategic line of communication, as, even if some other hereditary chiefs submit to Canada's terms, the veto is not lifted until the Mohawks say it is lifted.

Military operational analysis; Fifth Generation Asymmetrical Warfare; hyper powered individuals/small groups leveraging fundamental weak points to achieve strategic effects against vastly larger opponents.

Historical perspective; of all the First Nations of North America, two stand out as the most militant and fierce, to the South in the Black Hills, the Lakota, and along the banks of the Saint Lawrence, the Mohawks. They were militarized Hegemons in their day, and they remain so to this day. To wit, not all Indians are created equal, it is not a monolith, they have their leading military powers too.

I would at this juncture merely take it as strategic warning by the Mohawk Paramilitary Hegemon, drawing attention to the asymmetric paramilitary hegemonic nature of their role as Canada's primary indigenous adversary, in that, if Canada thinks it can pick on the docile non-paramilitary Indians with the RCMP, while the paramilitary hegemonic indians sit idle, that is not the case, and what you do in one area of the country, will always in the end come back to the vital Windsor to Quebec strategic line of communication, which they can for all intents and purposes grind to a halt if they need to.

That is a problem, but the problem I would submit is related to the onset of Information Age revolution supplanting the Industrial Age, which was the source of widespread industrial and institutional employment within the Western North Atlantic Security Zone of the American Hegemonic order, and so is not a problem which Canada can address, as it is market forces in action, on a global epoch scale.

Canada, technically, was never intended by its founders to be anything more than a formalized military and trade alliance. So never actually was a nation per se, but rather an assembly of nations, originally modeled on the Iroquois First Nations Confederacy

So, just FYI, as soon as the RCMP got permission from the band council in BC to step on to native land, the Iroquois Six Nations Confederacy, led by their Hegemon, the Mohawks, have invoked that band council has simply been leveraged by intimidation into doing this, and so it is an illegitimate transgression unto all First Nations by its nature, and they have launched an asymmetrical operation in retaliation in kind, by transgressing on the Windsor to Quebec corridor, by rolling vehicular blockade, in progress right now, see; CBC News.

As there is little prospect of achieving significantly less taxation within the status quo structure of Canadian Confederation wherein the Liberal Party of Canada is able to asymmetrically rule as a quasi-benign effective dictatorship, which is rather propped up by the fundamentally Marxist academic and media Eastern Elites, the next best option is simply to feed the Liberals rope and encourage them to increase taxes until such time at market forces incite a tax revolt against them, and by way establish an entrenched populist anti-tax movement imperiling their dictatorship and associated failed state zombie Confederation.

Not to mention that Oceanic New American Supra-States is plausibly a better route to space, by the following means. First master undersea habitation for the purposes of long term infrastructure mass construction. By these means establish tethered artificial Island based sovereign political entities. Build in both directions, the base to the sea floor to support a space elevator. Resulting in Oceanic New American States which serve as high efficiency space ports, sovereign and independent from both other states, and the earth as well.

But we can see far enough to know that there is no body is space which in conducive to self sustaining human habitation with any comparable quality of life, within realistic transit times by anything less than high subliminal velocity by constant acceleration, which while theoretically possible is at this juncture "magic" at foreseeable horizon technological development. Whereas undersea infrastructure would allow us to create new sovereign states in intentional waters without having to go war to seize territory ashore, starting those from scratch without the baggage of established orders. Thus I find the sea to be a far more viable, interesting and dynamic medium for prospective human colonization than the frozen quasi-infinite largely featureless vacuum of space-time, on a timescale which would be of any significance at all to we and/or our progeny for many generations to come.

The underpinning political dynamic is Revanchism; "the policy of seeking to retaliate, particularly as to lost territory" This has led to the rise in Russia of a political class known as the Siloviki; "Security Men" This class operates by Praetorianism; "military despotic regime" As a result the policy of the Kremlin is to reclaim lost territory in the Russian near abroad and to restore Hegemonic influence with former Soviet client states such as Syria, which in their view was lost to the American led North Atlantic Treaty Organization upon said Hegenomy's asymmetrical defeat of the Soviet Union by economic warfare. Thus, the actions undertaken to invade and occupy territory is not mistaken per se, but rather operations underpinning a strategic objective, sound military strategy by default, in pursuit of what are achievable objectives within an historically viable and proven military strategy for Hegemonic supremacy, regional or otherwise.

True. The art and science of earthworks and entrenchment is prized by the infantry elite. To the larger point tho, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) was gunned down on ceremonial pubic duties on Parliament Hill, which is the most heavily secured area of operations in the country. Soon as you take the oath of service, sign the contract of unlimited liability and don the uniform of your sovereign, you have undertaken to kill and/or die in the name of, and are as a result subject to military force at all times, potentially rendering your life forfeit. The profession of arms is the profession of arms, I do not distinguish between us by trade, tasking, nor line serial in the table of organization and equipment.

Provably false. Observe; Per capita GDP income in Canada in 1950 was roughly $2000.00, inflation adjusted that would be a per capita GDP income of roughly $20,000 in 2019 The actual GDP income in Canada in 2019 is roughly $50,000 Ergo, Canadians are being paid two and half times more now than they were in the 1950's in real terms, real terms being adjusted for inflation.

The issue of a lack of shared sacrifice for Canadian Confederation has nothing to do with taxation. The issue is that Confederation does not serve the purpose or which it was intended, which was a simple and straightforward military/trade alliance. Instead the country has been seized by the far left who incite a nonsensical socialist nanny state in the name of Marixst utopianism. It's dysfunctional, ineffective and counterproductive, crippling Confederations national military/trade. As a result, few are really prepared to kill and/or die to uphold and defend it, nor does anybody really want pay for it, other than the aforementioned bolshevists Hence, failed state fake country. The only reason it doesn't collapse into civil disorder, is that for some reason the Americans are want to prop up a quasi communist state on their northern border. What the Americans should do is allow the productive people to the north to emigrate to America where they can reach their full potential to the benefit of America. Then just leave the rest to squabble about it pointlessly in their self imposed gulag. Oh, wait, that's already what they do. NVM.

Common sense is a fallacy, clearly as there is no sense in the nanny state war on drugs. Thousands of drug users are killing themselves because that's a high risk lifestyle, who knew? Personal responsibility, not my problem, if I kill myself, that's my problem, if they kill themselves, that's their problem. You're going to shut the ports down to examine every single container from China? Unrealistic but a fool's errant to start off with. And for what? To save junkies from themselves? Absurd. You said you were a "Real" conservative, but what you are advocating is nanny state socialism, so not so conservative after all, as I said at the time /shrugs

Australia is awesome tho, they have the best pound for pound army in the world, Canada used to be the Punch of Weight Class Best Small Army in the World, but no more, Australia is the undisputed holder of that title naow.

Sounds like a Nanny Police State National Security Boondoggle to me, never mind that even they can't grind things to a halt for fentanyl as if fentanyl is plutonium, we got businesses to run up in here, the spice must flow. Fentanyl hysteria is the old 19th century Temperance Lady, and I ain't down with her hachetation.

Basically I'm like the Indians now, in that I am connected to my land, and the Great Mother Queen Victoria across the sea, and Canada is just an tax confiscation regulatory regime which could come along at any moment and put a pipeline through my property, and If I make a peep about it, they will sic a SWAT team on me for resisting arrest.

I'm not saying anybody should or should not uphold this tax confiscation regulatory regime, free individuals, and I'm not saying don't go with your heart, I'm just saying I don't feel anything in my heart for a tax confiscation regulatory regime. I still love the Queen tho.

Then there was that Israeli who said he wanted a Canadian citizenship but he didn't want to take the oath of allegiance, and SCC ruled that he didn't have to, and in fact you could be a Canadian without any particularly fealty other than obeying the law and paying your taxes. So then I reviewed. What oaths had I undertaken? There was only one, my oath to the Queen, so that is the only obligation I am bound to now, which doesn't include Confederation, because a sworn oath to Queen is any Commonwealth State, so basically I report to Buckingham Palace now, because that's the only sovereign I am sworn to.

Before, because over time I became Generalissimo of myself, in that I stopped identifying with the Confederation and just started think of myself as a fee thinking individual autonmous from that state, and that other than obeying the law and paying my taxes, I had no other obligation to Canada per se, and since it has gone so out of wack to the Nanny Police State side of things, trying to run every aspect of our lives by making us indentured servants to boondoggles, that it has also become antithetical to my values, so if that was the case, what I was supporting and upholding? And I was right, because now the Prime Minister of Canada has come out and publicly stated that Canada is a Post National State, which is absurd, because post state state is an Orwellian contradiction, and if its a post state state, than which states army had I been serving in? Canada can only suck for so long at being an actually free country before the free country people figure out that Canada doesn't want to be a free country, because Nanny Police State is not the definition of a western classically liberal democratic state.

It's like the big story in Canada upon the end of the war, was not Vimy Ridge nor the Hundred Days, the Corps had operated to the last minute, 11:11 Nov 11, and the night before soldiers had gone out on their usual patrol and one of them had been killed, and he was the last soldier killed in the First World War. So it became a symbol of the futility of it all and there was outrage and they said that General Currie had basically murdered him because he sent patrols out. Really it was just that the Corps was a military machine in full operational mode not slowing down for anything with the momentum they had built up, and the way the Corps was trained, they didn't have a slacker mode where patrols where ever not sent out, this was an elite corps.

When I was a buck private I was all starry eyed and gung-ho for it, and I still am to a certain degree, but as stay in the military longer and start employing everything at the operational level, than the brilliance of Vimy is not so much the myth of the birth of the nation, but just at the operational level it was revolutionary, like basically the Canadian Corps started operating like that and around the same time so did the Aussies under Gen. Sir John Monash, and then that became the way all British and then American forces started operating, and then it became how all armies operate everywhere, to this day. But when you find out the truth of the shabby treatment of the Corps and Gen. Currie by the Canadian public upon their return, you realize that the Somme was the breaking point, before the Somme Offensive Canadians were still hanging in there, after the Somme Offensive, the country became Anti-War

The GTA is not Toronto, the GTA is the land of the Ford Nation resistance, the Liberal Party of Canada emanates from U of T and the CBC, right downtown, and they set the agenda, because those are the Kathleen Wynne Liberals who just got tossed out, but just before she got tossed out, her team jumped to Trudeau, so that is the people running the government for everybody.