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Kongsberg-led venture to design future Mid-Shore Multi-Mission Vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard A Kongsberg-led team will develop the six new Mid-Shore Multi-Mission vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard, the PMO has confirmed in a statement today from Norway. The Team of Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, Salt Ship Design, and the Ottawa-based Adaptive Marine Solutions Inc have been awarded a $9.6 million contract to carry out design work for the future Mid-Shore Multi-Mission vessels. The Mid-Shore Multi-Mission (MSMM)vessels will replace the three mid-shore science vessels (Limnos, Otter Bay, Vector) while also filling the future gap in CCGs medium-sized utility fleet, as many of the current fleet are being replaced by much different, much larger vessels. The MSMM are expected to be 45 to 50m in length and a tonnage of < 1000MT. They will have a range of up to 3000nm and an endurance of up to 17 days. The MSMM will also be Ice-Strengthened with the class expected to be rated at minimum Ice Class-1C per DNV standards. https://www.truenorthstrategicreview.ca/p/kongsberg-led-venture-to-design-future

Addressed in the other thread. It’s an out of control lie. Upkeep and operation of military bases is a bonafide military expense This includes all sorts of items including building maintenance and landscaping the latter being where the “planting trees” nonsense comes from. If the soldiers have spaghetti for dinner tonight in the mess hall, it doesn’t mean McGuinty has plot to count pasta as a military expense. As I said before notice how all the cons are sharing the headline but nobody can access the actual story including 99% of the people circulating ot but that’s what you people do, light on facts heavy on emotion and sensationalism

The “chance of parole” was shortened by 3 years. On a life sentence. Everyone stop your hysterical pants-shitting.

White people can get a break also. Special forces sergeant who assaulted ex-wife gets reduced sentence due to Canadian military service A Canadian sergeant convicted of assaulting his former spouse three times has been handed a conditional discharge by an Ontario judge who noted a “link between his service-related concussions and the mental health deterioration” the soldier experienced from deploying to Iraq five times and Afghanistan thrice. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/elite-special-forces-sergeant-gets-reduced-sentence-for-assaulting-ex-wife-due-to-military-service I know what you’re going to say, veterans deserve special treatment because “they’ve earned it” with their service. But that’s not how justice works that’s why they say justice is blind. Either traumatic past counts for everyone or is doesn’t count for anyone it’s not a special lerk to be handed out at discretion only to people we like

Yes we find stupidity aggravating and we don’t like it.

You don’t know what you’re talking about. We have a free trade agreement with US and EU. Any tariffs that existed prior to Trump’s trade war were mutually agreed upon tariffs that were specified in those trade agreements including the one Trump negotiated with us in his first term and called “the greatest deal ever” And we don’t have blanket tariffs on any country much less the entire world because everyone with an IQ higher than 10 understands that is completely stupid. It’s so stupid you might get a FIFA Prize for it.

It is finally keeping up. And it is fake news because it is a misrepresentation of the truth by selective reporting The propagandists want you believe that Carney specifically ordered a tree planting program unrelated to defence be counted as defence spending and something unusual was going on to cook the books.

Right. There’s no political benefit to anyone from ABC showing a shooting range instead of actual combat footage. If you think there is one you will need to explain what that might be There is a political benefit to deliberately cutting out footage of Trump refusing to remove his hat during a ceremony for fallen soldiers.

Yeah glancing at a watch is an impulsive habit and once again he did it AFTER the ceremony. Yet Republicans still tried to make a controversy out of it. So he could have shown uo in a bathrobe and ate ice cream that would be cool? Taking your hat off in a solemn ceremony honouring deceased in any event is universally understood expectation for everyone INCLUDING A PRESIDENT how often do see people wearing baseball hats at a funeral? So this isn’t really about his saluting but Trump doesn’t follow salute protocol because he doesn’t owtf he’s doing. He is 100% uninformed impulse. He previously hilariously saluted a North Korean general, and he once inappropriately saluted the national anthem and George Bush’s casket Interestingly Presidents before Reagan never saluted at all despite nearly all of them being ex-military officers Starting with Reagan every president has adopted the practice of RETURNING the salute of US service personnel, but not initiating salutes and certainly not randomly and inconsistently saluting things like anthems and coffins like Trump does You do recall Republicans pulling their own pubes out in rage when Obama was boarding the Marine One helicopter and returned a salute while holding a coffee cup in his other hand, do you not? You honestly think that is worse? Yeah we like to have a good laugh when his fake hair blows all over the place. That’s exactly why Emperor Snowflake McThinskin wore his hat, because it was windblown last time and he can’t stand the thought being ridiculed. Well too bad. Being ridiculed and criticized comes with the job of being president So does honouring soldiers who die in the wars you choose to start. More proof he’s not cut out for the job. So you don’t dispute the assertion that they deliberately avoided showing Trump wearing his hat during the ceremony, first with old footage, then with edited footage.

Except Fox’s deception was on purpose and meant to benefit Trump, while ABC’s was just an error with no clear political benefit to anyone Unsurprisingly you didn’t read your own link: The NYT’s Mike McIntire made an important point on Twitter about “the difference between journalistic mistakes and fake news.” Here’s what he wrote, in italics: 1. It actually IS a mistake and not willful propaganda 2. It’s acknowledged and corrected 3. Partisan opportunists seize on it anyway to claim bias

This is hilarious the party who is known for having patriotic freak outs whenever a public figure doesn’t have their hat off and their hand on their heart during the national anthem is now claiming there’s no “dress code” for honouring fallen soldiers in a formal ceremony. You people ate so dishonest it’s disgusting.

Uh no your absurd equivocating on every thread proves you’re the hack. I am not ignoring Democrats’ strikes against ISIS, Taliban and Al Qaeda or the Korean and Vietnam wars which were started under Dem presidents. am pointing out that in every case Republicans weren’t opposed to those conflicts they wanted to expand and escalate them and complained that the Democrats were being too soft (except Hitler and Putin then many Republican wanted softness). Also Republicans were the only ones who initiated conflicts unprompted. Iran, Venezuela (Trump), Panama (Bush Sr), Iraq 2 (Bush Jr) were all wars of choice not responses to some global emergent or event.

No, you’re lying about what the PBO said. AGAIN. Uh nope. You literally do nothing all day except post ine anti-Carney thread or post after another, including FAKE NEWS like when you falsely claimed Carney was an Epstein associate and publicly admitted it Edit: also I stand corrected, the government’s fiscal year ends March31 so it’s not over yet. And on that note, another big announcement coming up Monday, reportedly the winners of the Launch the North space launch program, “enabling the launch of Canadian payloads from Canadian soil with an initial operational capability for light lift by as late as 2028.” Minister McGuinty to make announcement on Canada’s sovereign space program National Defence March 12, 2026 – Ottawa, Ontario – National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces The Honourable David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defence, will make an announcement related to Defence and Canada’s sovereign space program. When: Mar 16, 2026, 11:00 a.m. (media must arrive NLT 10:15 a.m. for escort from front gate). Where: The Canadian Space Agency’s David Florida Laboratory operated by MDA Space, Shirley’s Bay Campus, 3701 Carling Ave, Ottawa, ON What: An announcement related to new investments in space-related infrastructure and capabilities. The Minister will be available for questions after the announcement. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2026/03/minister-mcguinty-to-make-announcement-on-canadas-sovereign-space-program.html

Notice how you can’t actually read the story because it’s behind a paywall on a known right wing propagandist website and NOWHERE ELSE? There’s just the clickbait headline that you conservative suckers are sharing around social media although I guarantee 99% of can’t read the actual article, not that you like to read things anyway. The facts behind the clickbait headline is that IN EVERY COUNTRY the maintenance and upkeep of military bases is a valid and legitimate defence expenditure, whether that’s fixing the plumbing, cleaning the toilets or landscaping. You people and your fake news are exhausting

And from Monday Canada commits nearly $1B to drone and airborne defence research Government says research aims to benefit both military and civilian operations Canada's National Research Council (NRC) is pouring over $900 million into a long-term plan to establish a drone research facility and purchase a Canadian-built Bombardier Global 6500 to support defence research. The funding is coming from the recently established Defence Industrial Strategy. "Canada's security depends on our ability to innovate at home," said Industry Minister Mélanie Joly at the announcement on Monday in Ottawa. "We are strengthening our sovereign capabilities and supporting Canadian companies in the development of next-generation aerospace, drone, quantum and biomedical technologies." Accompanying Joly at the announcement was Defence Minister David McGuinty and Stephen Fuhr, the secretary of state for defence procurement. "We remain committed to advancing sovereign defence technologies that enhance security, create prosperity and reinforce Canada's strategic economic position as we chart our course in an increasingly complex world," said Fuhr, who noted the NRC has been doing world-class research for more than a century. The intention of the new centre is to conduct cutting-edge research into drones with both military and civilian applications. McGuinty said the investment and research will help strengthen Canada's industrial foundations and get new capabilities into the hands of the military faster. The plane will be assembled at Bombardier's Pearson facility in Mississauga, Ont., and the interiors will be completed in Dorval, Que., with more than 65 Canadian suppliers contributing parts. At the end of last year, the federal government agreed to purchase six Global 6500 jetsfrom the Montreal-based company to replace the air force's aging fleet of Challenger jets. That contract was worth over $753 million and included production, training for crews, maintenance and any military modifications needed. Built in Canada, the replacement fleet is expected to be delivered by summer 2027. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/drones-defence-research-bombardier-9.7121356

More major defence spending announced today Sorry pal your thread doesn’t hold up to facts Canada spending nearly $35-billion to fortify North, assert sovereignty Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks, as members of the Canadian Armed Forces stand behind him, during his visit to 440 Transport Squadron, in Yellowknife, NWT, on Thursday.Carlos Osorio/Reuters The federal government will spend nearly $35-billion to prepare the North for more extensive military operations aimed at defending against incoming threats to North America and asserting territorial sovereignty in the Arctic, Prime Minister Mark Carneyannounced in Yellowknife Thursday. The bulk of the money, $32-billion, will be used to upgrade military Forward Operating Locations in Yellowknife, Inuvik and Iqaluit as well as the Deployed Operating Base at 5 Wing Goose Bay. These provide hangars, fuel and accommodations to support fighter squadrons deployed in service of the Canada-U.S. North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD). Funds will pay for upgraded airfields, new or repurposed hangars, ammunition and fuel storage as well as upgraded accommodations, warehouses and information technology equipment. Mr. Carney also announced four Northern infrastructure projects would be referred to Ottawa’s Major Projects Office, which streamlines regulatory approvals and financing for “nation-building” projects of national interest. These include the 800-kilometre Mackenzie Valley Highway, the Grays Bay Road and Port, the Arctic Economic and Security Corridor, and Taltson Hydro Expansion Project. ….. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-spending-nearly-35-billion-to-fortify-north-assert-sovereignty/ Pretty sure that’s more of that fake news you love to recite

Oh yeah not like you MAGA trolls who are just so positive and never post anything negative about liberals and democratS LMAO Your comments are just more evidence of your hypocrisy Fox News is all but an official outlet of the Republican Party. The other MSM outlets just report news you don’t like to hear. The MSM outlets for example were extremely harsh on Biden’s debate performance and Kamala’s campaign. Fox News can’t bring itself to say anything that contradicts Trump’s blatant lies.

Oh they have problems LMAO. So do you. But there’s no evidence they had a problem with the Trump footage and they never claimed to have one. How do you know every criticism you’ve ever made against every liberal or democrat doesn’t have a perfectly innocent and justifiable explanation that’s just been kept secret? Your argument is hilarious.

In sure even someone as depraved clueless as Trump understands instinctively that you remove your hat during national anthems and other solemn ceremonies. Don’t pretend thisnis some rare custom nobody has heard of before. Biden momentarily glanced at his watch AFTER the solemn transfer and your cult still tore their pubes out in an act of what we can now confirm was phoney outrage And you still can’t explain Fox News false and doctored footage to hide Trump’s transgressions from the cult so you hide from it completely

LMAO I love how you are going out of your way to INVENT excuses that even Fox didn’t try to offer. They had the footage just like every other network did. They used old footage first amd then later when using the correct footage they edited out shots of Teump wearing his hat. Pretty pathetic attempt on your part. I am not inconvenienced by Trump amd Fox once again being exposed for what they are. I am very convenienced by it actually

How Hegseth Came to See Moral Purpose in War as Weakness … For decades, presidents and their secretaries of defense have framed American military interventions in altruistic terms. Even though the truth was often more complicated, they cast U.S. troops as liberators bringing democracy and freedom to those living under tyranny and oppression. Mr. Hegseth has largely dispensed with that talk. His bellicose, at times vengeful, rhetoric reflects his belief that the United States’ lofty goals in Iraq and Afghanistan caused the military to lose focus on its main task, killing the enemy, and led to costly defeats in both wars. In his view, the U.S. military’s strength is not rooted in its high ideals, humanity or moral purpose, but rather its ability to punish adversaries. Anything that distracts from that singular mission, he has said, is weakness. “This is not 2003. This is not endless nation building,” Mr. Hegseth said on Tuesday at the Pentagon. “It’s not even close. Our generation of soldiers will not let that happen again.” Instead, he said, the U.S. military was pursuing Mr. Trump’s war objectives with “brutal efficiency, total air dominance and an unbreakable will.” .. Mr. Hegseth wrote in his book “American Crusade” that he initially “mocked” Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, put off by his reality TV celebrity and his style. But after Mr. Trump was elected, the two men found common cause in Mr. Hegseth’s campaign to pardon three U.S. troops — two soldiers and a member of the Navy SEALs — who had been accused or convicted of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. In two of the three instances, the service members were turned in by their own troops — the men they were charged with leading in combat. Mr. Hegseth, then a Fox News host, cast the accused as victims of muddled military thinking and overly restrictive rules of engagement that had prevented troops from killing insurgents and defending themselves. The whistle-blowing soldiers said they were defending their honor and a moral code. On the day Mr. Trump decided to pardon the three men in late 2019, he called Mr. Hegseth to share the news. Mr. Trump ended the conversation with a compliment that Mr. Hegseth wrote he would “never forget.” “You’re a warrior, Pete,” Mr. Trump told him, adding an expletive for emphasis. “It was a hallowed night,” Mr. Hegseth recalled. As secretary of defense — Mr. Hegseth prefers to be called the “secretary of war” — he vowed to return the military’s focus to killing the enemy. “Maximum lethality, not tepid legality,” he said this year. “Violent effect, not politically correct.” His diagnosis of the military’s shortcomings is one that often emerges after a lost war. “There’s always someone who thinks that if only we were crueler, if only we’d killed another million Vietnamese, then we would have won this war,” said Phil Klay, a novelist and a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq war. “If you reduce war to the satisfied feeling you get when you kill the enemy, it makes it a lot simpler and more satisfying.” Mr. Hegseth’s views also mirror those of Mr. Trump, who has consistently rejected the idea that the United States by virtue of its unique history and superpower status has a special role in the world with regard to spreading democracy or defending freedom. Mr. Trump’s and Mr. Hegseth’s views are reflected in the name they have given to the Iran mission. In the past, the Pentagon has chosen names that sought to send a message to the American people and the world that the military was fighting for some higher ideal, such as “Operation Enduring Freedom” in Afghanistan or “Operation Unified Protector” in Libya. For the Iran mission, Mr. Hegseth signed off on “Epic Fury,” a name that connotes retribution and rage. To the pilots flying missions and sailors firing missiles into Iran, the bellicose rhetoric is, for now, most likely background noise. They are focused on the immediate, and often dangerous, task at hand. But over the longer term, couching wars in moral terms, such as defending democracy or protecting civilians, gives troops a framework to understand why they are being asked to kill. “Moral language acts as a psychological scaffolding for service members,” said Michael Valdovinos, a former Air Force psychologist and author of the forthcoming book “Moral Injuries.” “When that disappears, it can leave troops carrying the moral burden alone.” One question is whether a war waged without a clear moral purpose and with mixed support from the American public will weigh heavier on the troops fighting it after the shooting stops. “Some might say at least they’re being honest about the fact that it’s just sheer brute force,” said Elliot Ackerman, who led Marines in the second battle of Falluja in Iraq and now writes novels and nonfiction works that frequently focus on the moral complexity of war. “But it’s also very dangerous. You’re asking people to die for the ambitions of a president and a moral calculus that’s no greater than might makes right.” Moral justifications and public support matter to troops taking lives on behalf of their country. “I can tell you from experience on the back end, it doesn’t feel very good to have participated in a war that everybody thinks was a disaster,” Mr. Ackerman said. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/us/politics/hegseth-iran-war.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20260312&instance_id=172378&nl=the-morning&regi_id=75993516&segment_id=216544&user_id=664847c7fcd4c2f213cbe5bb8a541805

Who is the Republican exception? Nixon escalated and expanded Vietnam into Cambodia amd Laos amd unleashed massive carpet bombing campaigns that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Republicans were never opposed to the Vietnam war, their complaint was that the Democrats weren’t aggressive enough iwere fighting with one hand tied behind their back The same complaint Hegseth had about the military under democrats Regan bombed Libya, invaded Grenada and funded right wing death squads across Latin and South America via cocaine trafficking. Also funded the precursors of AlQaeda and the Taliban Bush Sr invaded Panama to tie up loose ends from the cocaine trafficking mess he and Reagan created and invaded Iraq again under fabricated pretences Bush Jr fabricated evidence to justify his unnecessary Iraq invasion needlessly killing thousands of US troops, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, and spending half a trillion dollars Heck even during the Korean War, the Republicans wanted to expand it with nuclear strikes across China and Russia. In fact the war against North Korea was almost won with nearly the entire peninsula liberated in 1951 but General Douglas MacArthur, a warmongering Republican, defied orders from Washington in 1951 and kept advancing towards the Chinese border, ignoring warnings from China that they would enter the war if he crossed the Yalu river near the border. He crossed anyway in direct violation of orders from the President. Sure enough he what happened? A massive Chinese army joined the war and pushed the allies way back down the peninsula to the 38th parallel where the front stagnated and remains today. Technically the war is not over there has just been a ceasefire since 1953. Thousands of allied troops killed and massive strategic gains wiped out all because of a stupid Republican But at least he took his hat off when the dead bodies were being honoured. In fact the only times Republicans have called for peace and de-escalation was against Adolph Hitler and Vladimir Putin. Both were fascists with significant fanbases in the Republican Party.

Nobody believes Trump. We all knew he’d warmonger someone all republicans do. We all saw that the phone “peace” posturing was just an excuse to support Russia. It’s the only context where they call for peace.

What a joke. It was definitely a threat to the US and to Europe to have a civil war, civilian massacre and migrant crisis in Libya on the shores of the Mediterranean right across from Europe and right next door to Egypt which was a key US ally and powder keg teetering on the brink with its own Islamist movement gaining strength, all while other “Arab Spring” uprisings are across the middle east while US and allies were bogged down against terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan amd trying to contain the spread of Islamist terrorist groups. Meanwhile you’re hilariously claiming that the status quo of the last 47 years, however unsatisfactory constituted some immediate emergency where Trump had no choice but to act. There was no catalyzing event for Trump’s unnecessary dude-bro war of choice, he just overestimated what’s involved because nobody in his administration even comes close to the minimum competency, experience or knowledge for their job and they have no clue what they’re doing.

Can’t handle the inconvenient truth and you don’t even have an intelligent rebuttal, just a generic ad-hominem insult as usual like a typical conservative.