Dougie93

You have to put the Somme in context of what was expected vs what happened. They were expecting it to be a walk over. Because they hit the front with the biggest artillery bombardment in the history of the world, and they thought it was going to be like a tactical nuke and then they would casually walk over the German bodies. And then it turns into the worst defeat in the history of Britain, not just the Empire, like in the history of the Britons.

NFLD went in on the first day and were decimated, but that was just the first day, the Battle of the Somme went on for months, right into the winter. Don't confuse the infamous first day with the entirety of the battle, but it wasn't just that Canadians were being killed, the entire British Empire was shook, including Canada, it wasn't like now, it's not like they didn't care about the British being killed, but also just the scale and nature of it, and then it fails. That shook the confidence of all parts of the Empire in the Government running it all in London.

Because the money never even gets where it supposed to and this is basically skimming us to pay for corporate welfare, because Canada is so uncompetative Canada has to bribe them to come here, it is such a gulag, that I cannot in all good conscience throw more people into a gulag, whoever has escaped the gulag, I'm just gonna look the other way. I actually want the Federal Government to go bankrupt, because that's the only way it will ever be restrained.

Exactly. Never demand more taxes in Canada, then the CBC will run the headline "Canadians are happy to pay more tax and even demand that they get taxed more!"

I'm quite optimistic actually, because Canada is running up debt at all levels, federal, provincial, public, private, just takes one economic shock to get the ball rolling , because if they have a debt bomb go off, they have to reign in spending hard and fast, just like Chretien. And what happened as soon as Chretien started cutting spending a big recession? Quebec Referendum.

See, Ghost, that is what changed, the thing that was preventing Globalism was the Cold War, when the Cold War ended, there was no structure which stopped the flow of trade anymore, so we've gone back to the 19th century, because the 19th century was globalized because it was all European Empires. The thing that tore the world in two, was two World Wars and a Cold War. But that all stopped on 9 November 1989. It wasn't anything that anybody in the West did that created Globalism, the Soviets created Globalism, when they capitulated.

Globalism is market forces, the only thing holding China back was that they were on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, when they flipped sides, nothing could stop the world from going there to try to sell them stuff. That's all "Globalism" is.

Leadership is not a popularity contest, and I'm not trying to recruit Canadians to my cause because I only need Quebec, and it's only gonna take a bad recession and immigration hysteria to whip them up into a frenzy for another referendum. Canadians don't get to vote in the referendum so view of it is sidelined.

Nobody is not selling to a billion and a half people with money, and government in free countries cant tell their own people not to business with that, because they are free, so the only other way to stop them, is to invoke a war with China and designate it as a declared enemy. But then you're starting a war with a nuclear armed super power, so that's probably not a good idea.

It's not a radical position in Canada, the only people who don't talk about breaking the country up, are in Ontario. Ontario is Canada, run by downtown Toronto Left Wing Dingbats at the CBC. No wonder most Canadians outside of Torontoland actually despise Canadian Confederation. Love your land, love your people, hate your Confederation, is literally the essence of Canada, you're just a Millennial and nobody has ever taught you the central narrative of Canadian history, all you know is social history, which was deliberately fed to you by the CBC in Toronto so you wouldn't know your own history, so they could scam you into thinking Canada is supposed to be a de facto dictatorship for all intents and purposes from Ottawa.

The West cannot isolate itself from doing business with China, the West will simply be defending classical liberalism with the wagons circled, backed up by hydrogen bombs, new cold war same as the old Cold War.

1.5 billion people as a Hegemon becomes a globe spanning monster by default, no matter how many hurdles, China was a third world country, that was the only way a billion people was not a super power. There's already no escaping them, not doing business in China? Would require a nuclear war to bring to a halt.

No Canadian government is going to close the border to refugees because they have a right to apply for asylum, and no Canadian Prime minister can break the law because the Prime Minister is not a Commander-in-Chief, he's just a civilian we hired to do an office job, so if any Prime Minister tried to close the border to asylum seekers, the judiciary would just overrule him, and there is no section 33 veto on that, because asylum is not a charter right it's an international law which Canada is signatory to.

They're all going to move to Toronto and Montreal in the end anyways, so who cares? Outside the major urban centers this country is as white as the driven snow.

Doing business is not a morality play, but moreover, China is so big you have no choice, and they are only going to get bigger. No, they will not take the Americans down, but they will end up ruling everything outside of North America and Europe eventually, so there will be no escaping them. It's a billion and a half people going capitalist, that, is going to be a globe spanning monster, no matter what.

And I'm not seeking the approval of the majority here, I don't expect the Canadian Disease to say "Hey, great Idea, Dougie", of course not, they are emotionally invested so there's no sense appealing to the masses about it. Thankfully, their Confederation is unstable right from 1759. Britain and France do not actually work together after all, hence why the two countries in one country is called les Deux Solitudes. All I'm saying is that it's not two solitudes, it's more like five solitudes, where only two of them get any say in the direction of the country, causing the other three to be forced into self hating Canada, and if they get even a moment to make a decision, the two big solitudes then go self hating Canada about that and scream "American Style Fascism!" And from there flows all the dysfunction, corrupting the entire government to try force it all together by pork barreling and not much else. It's funny how Canadians are afraid of China insidiously stealing from and sabotaging Canada, when that is in fact what the Government of Canada does, the Provinces are Canada's real countries and they work fine more or less, and then there's this crazy corrupt People's Republic in Ottawa.

I've already started referring to it as a foreign country, because once you realize how dysfunctional it is, suddenly it dawns on you that the Pequistes are right and I am wrong, and then, boom, you're cured of the Canadian Disease in a split second, And then afterwards you feel nothing for it, Confederation looks like a foreign invader who is abusing us. I already say Upper Canada as we and Canada as they. That is what it is to be a Pequiste.

I'm not asking their permission. Their Confederation is unstable and can be taken down with just winning a few ridings in Quebec, and Canada's SCC has said that it is not only legal, it's a constitutional right. Even Canada's own Prime Minister is already calling it a Post National Country.

The LAV is a deathtrap, it's a terrible design and it's not survivable and it's dangerous, because they roll over and the commander in the cupola gets crushed. The Halifax class is also useless in a real naval war, it's a glorified patrol ship. Anything in NATO whose roll is not combat should not be in NATO, NATO is league league, it exists to fight Russian Tank Armies, and should not be used for anything else, ever again. Canada is totally useless in NATO, we are the most pathetically equipped into NATO, Canada has fallen out of the big leagues now. I support NATO, I'm pro NATO, which is why I think Canada should not be in NATO, because Canada is the ultimate Free Rider country, so anything Canada provides has to be supported by the other NATO countries entirely in a logistical sense, so Canada is net loss to NATO not a gain. Keep NATO, just kick hippie dippie peacenik Canada out.

It makes sense because what we have now is an abomination. The Federal Government is literally worse than useless, it is wrecking the place and its starting crumble now. At the provincial level is where everything gets done, in the real countries rather than the Fake Country, because the real country Provinces/Regions care about their own countries, they just don't give a rats ass about Canada, other than hockey. So we'll keep Team Canada, and when everything is Tremendous! in the new Dominions, we'll have nothing to argue about except who gets their players on Team Canada.

Of course not, but that is not how countries are born, countries are born of many things, but they are never born of that. Countries are not an argument, argument is brain, country is heart.

I've even dated a Mohawk. When I was young buck living the single soldiers party lifestyle, met this gorgeous redhead, didn't look native, I thought she was Irish and just had a real nice tan. Turns out she's a Mohawk. So it was just a May September romance, because the Mohawks are ethno-nationalist, they don't want white guys dating their women. Party in Toronto is one thing, but you're not marrying into the clan, bet dat.

Bear in mind, I respect the Mohawks, I've been toe to toe with them. But I respect them as equals, unlike the Marxist socialists, I don't see them as victims. I respect them as warriors. I respect them as monarchist soldiers of their crown. I respect them because they are not bourgeois, they are prepared to kill and die for their cause. Some of them have served in the military, mostly in the US military, and then they train the others. There's actually a network of native paramilitaries across North America. It is not the Crown they are in conflict with, it's the Socialist Nanny Police State which wants to bring them to heel. And that's not me, so I wash my hands of it.

Violent entertainment is the best kind.

Anyways, just to get back on topic, it is folly to throw money at the military, because the military is already dead. it's just window dressing, the term of art in military analysis is Boutique Army, there are some shiny pieces of kit on display, but there's nothing in the warehouse. Without logistics is what Boutique Army really means, no logistics tail so can't actually conduct operations, and so it cannot fight wars, not even small wars. This was gutted in the 90's by the Chretienite Liberals, plus all the institutional knowledge on the civilian side at DND as well, they gutted that too, so DND doesn't even know how to run things anymore, worst run defence department in the world by a country mile, bar none. it's been a Boutique Army ever since, and even a war in Afghanistan with soldiers come home in body bags, was not enough to convince the Canadian public to go big on warfighting, just with better equipment. Quite the opposite is the case, made them run from it, conservatives don't want to pay for it, the grown up ones at least, and the liberals just want to hold the dead carcass up to the public as a prop so they can funnel corporate welfare to Irving. You could spend a hundred billion on it and that still wouldn't rebuild decades of underfunding, it's too far gone, there's too much to replace, it can't be done for the money available, not even close. It's. Already. Dead. So stopping funneling money down that drain because its just throwing good money after bad. It gives me no pleasure to say this, but I already grieved for my army, and by now I've moved on. Stephen Harper knows. He came in all gung ho to spend money on it, but when he found out how broken it actually was, how the money never goes to where you want to go but just gets bled out all the orifices of dysfunction, he realized it was like doing mouth to mouth resuscitation on a rotting corpse. Throwing good money after bad, fiscal conservative; that is taxpayer money which should be returned to the taxpayers rather than used to light cigars as the Liberals do. So he scaled it all back and stopped spending money on it and got out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible to stop wasting money on that as well. That's not why I punished Harper by voting for Zoolander, I punished Harper for doing nothing on the gun file, did not fight back against Socialist Nanny Police State Gun Control, at all. So he was useless to me, the one thing I voted for he did nothing on; fired. Trudeaupe has come through with the dope, so he at least did the one thing I voted for, so mission accomplished, and that was another strike against Harper, because the PhonyCons are just the other wing of the Nanny Police State, they are the Prohibitionist Nanny Police State, and death to the Temperance Lady I say. Thus, what you have here is not an army, it's an armed constabulary, an armed constabulary is still military, it's not paramilitary, it packs way more punch than the RCMP, an armed constabulary is for countries which face no practical prospect of invasion, can't deploy expeditionary to invade other peoples country, but is still a beast in its own territory against terrorists, insurgents and breakdown of civil order. And it can do humanitarian floods, fires, search and rescue, border interdiction etc And that is the real mission of the Canadian Army right now, everything else is expendable. There are plenty of kick ass armed constabularies, it's like Milton Friedman's Hong Kong for all the conservatives out there, what was defending it from the Chinese? Answer; The British Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, and an armed constabulary on the border, of super elite Gurkha Rifles. That's what Canader needs, Milton Friedman's Hong Kong, with a kick ass armed constabulary to bail the Mounties out when the Mounties cause a problem. In terms of fighter jets? New Zealand doesn't have any not even one. The Americans have to do NORAD, so let them. If you do all that, then you can afford to keep the navy and special operations forces. Which again, is exactly what New Zealand does. Don't think of Canada as a Frozen Australia because in actual fact it's a Giant New Zealand, when it comes to military imperatives and politics. Canada has only ever fought one war which was not on behalf of either the British or the American Empires and which was totally under Canadian command and control, and that was the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. That is what a Canadian War looks like, everything else is Canada fighting Anglo-American wars.