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You’re either a liar or yet another gullible right wing sucker because none of that is even remotely true.

Make do as best we can with work-arounds and commercial systems. New rifles on the way for Canada's soldiers as defence spending ramps up A program intended to replace the entire stock of the Canadian military’s aging assault rifles is being sped up, CBC News has learned. An internal Department of National Defence presentation references a move to quickly order the first tranche of weapons under the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle program. The commander of the Canadian Army, Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright, confirmed in an interview with CBC News that the program, which has languished on the books for years, will now proceed with speedy delivery expected from a Canadian manufacturer. "We're on the cusp of signing a contract that will see those rifles start to be delivered to the Canadian Army as of next year," Wright said. Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright, the commander of the Canadian Army, says the rifle program that has languished on the books for years will soon have a contract in place.(Murray Brewster/CBC) That would be almost two years ahead of the last published schedule and is being made possible by the injection of more than $9 billion into the military as part of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s drive to reach NATO’s two per cent defence spending benchmark. A Defence Department equipment briefing, dated July 2025, says the plan is to order up to 65,401 modern rifles with the possibility being left open to increase the delivery up to 300,000 should the government proceed with a plan to drastically scale up the size of the military supplementary reserve. The internal presentation doesn’t contain a price tag, nor a precise delivery time, but the department’s defence capabilities website said the program could be worth between $500 million and $1 billion. The Canadian Modular Assault Rifle is intended to replace the current stock of C7 and C8 rifles, which date from the Afghan war almost two decades ago. Wright sees both the rifles and new day-to-day CADPAT camouflage pattern uniforms as important morale-boosters. Wright didn't reveal who the contract might go to. But Colt Canada, located in Kitchener, Ont., is in the running and has a long-standing relationship with the army. Buying Canadian would help the Liberal government's pitch to rebuild the country’s defence industrial base. Such an order would also provide a bit of political cover fire as the defence department pushes forward with the army’s demand for U.S.-manufactured rocket-propelled artillery, known as HIMARS. In October, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, an arm of the State Department, gave Canada permission to buy up to 26 of the M142 rocket systems. A letter of offer needs to be extended before the contract can be signed. The army isn’t expected to take delivery until 2029, but the $2.7-billion program is politically uncomfortable because of the federal government’s stated aim of diversifying military equipment purchases away from the United States. "We're saying the HIMARS system is the long-range precision strike system that we need for land operations," Wright said. "It's a capability that's been proven on the battlefield in Ukraine. More importantly, of the systems that are available right now, it's the system that we can put onto the back of a Royal Canadian Air Force strategic airlift, the C-17, and deploy anywhere The other priority capabilities, according to Wright, are drones and BV 206 tracked carriers, an all-terrain transport vehicle specifically designed for the Arctic. The current stock of those vehicles is decades old. Rifles, uniforms, drones and the rocket-propelled artillery are elements in the broader overhaul of the army. A strategy, released earlier this year, said the aim is to prepare land forces to fight large-scale warfare, similar to what we’ve seen in Ukraine, rather than the guerilla-type wars of the early 2000s. Intersecting with the overhaul is a recently acknowledged mobilization plan which aims to create a pool of up to 300,000 supplemental reserves — or citizen soldiers. Wright said his focus, at the moment, is getting both the regular army and reserve units up to full strength and more troops into a deployable state. The Canadian Army currently has a field strength of approximately 22,500 regular force members and 21,500 primary reserve members. "I'm focused on fixing the house that we have," rather than building an addition, Wright said. The proposed larger, mobilized force is still in the military's future. But "it’s not tomorrow or next year that they're arriving," Wright said. Members of the Canadian military are getting a pay raise of up to 20 per cent, as the federal government looks to boost recruitment and retention in the ranks. The $2-billion spending package also includes new allowances for certain deployments and operations. Over the long term, Wright said he could see some armouries in major urban centres — many of them built a century ago, either reconfigured or relocated to the suburbs or bedroom communities, where most Canadians now live. The army is being reorganized to cut down on administration in order to provide one division to respond to domestic crises in Canada and one for deployment overseas. The Canadian Army currently has four main regional divisions — the 2nd (Quebec), 3rd (Western Canada), 4th (Ontario) and 5th (Atlantic Canada), which are responsible for providing troops and training within their regions. The division concept lends itself to rapid scaling up in a crisis and Wright said army planners are looking at the challenges. They conducted a planning exercise in September, known as war game, to test and think through some of the challenges of building an army quickly. When asked what the army learned, he suggested it was a lot, but didn’t go into detail. "Most importantly, it got people into the mindset," he said. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/colt-modular-assault-rifles-army-9.7011113

He is on his own side, and the side of whoever flattered him last, and that tilts Russian. His only real objection to Europe buying Russian oil and gas is that he wanted them to buy more American oil and gas. LMAO what alternative reality are you living in? Trust in USA is at an all-time historic low, just like Trump’s approval ratings. It’s quite clear, Trumpism doesn’t want an EU. It hates the EU. That’s why it only talks about “sovereign nations” and all those far right groups it wants to elevate are anti-EU, as is Russia. And then there’s this: Fuller version of Trump security strategy reportedly calls for “pulling Poland away from EU” … On Tuesday, Defense One published extracts from what it said was a “fuller version” of the strategy that had been circulating before the White House published the unclassified version. The document listed Poland, Austria, Italy and Hungary as countries that the US should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the [European Union]”, according to Defense One. … https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/fuller-version-of-trump-security-strategy-reportedly-calls-for-pulling-poland-away-from-eu/ 1) Exaggeration. “Tactical teams” were only used when they were targeting groups or individuals with ties to violence or weapons e.g, certain neo-nazi groups Nearly all were just routine no-drama search warrants conducted by normal everyday officers in plainclothes or regular uniform 2) Given Trump’s ICE crackdowns and arbitrary arrests and detentions including of US citizens they are hardly one to point fingers at other countries and there is no way you or any other American would tolerate European government saying they should “cultivate resistance” in the US to it 3) Regardless of what Trumpsists think of what European domestic policies are doing, it is not America’s place or concern. It’s not a “sovereign” Europe if the White House thinks it has the right to “cultivate resistance” to domestic policies that they don’t approve of. 4) While the Trump NSS can’t figure out an single bad thing to say about Russia it bashes Europe at length with racist diatribes borrowed from “replacement theory” and supposes that it’s America’s job to protect and promote the racial purity of Europe all while paradoxically referring to promoting sovereign European countries So you’re sovereign as long as you govern yourself in accordance with the racial and political ideology of the bigots in the White House.

Ottawa signs partnership with Canadian firms on military's Arctic satellite project Kyle Duggan Tue, December 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM EST 2 min read OTTAWA — Ottawa has signed a new strategic partnership with the Canadian firms Telesat and MDA Space to develop military satellite communications for the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic. It's among the first major military procurements to be managed by Ottawa's new Defence Investment Agency, which handles projects worth more than $100 million. MP Stephen Fuhr, the secretary of state for defence procurement, said the Canadian military has limited satellite communications options in the region, with most available options consisting of commercial rather than military networks. "That's why modernizing our surveillance and communications systems in the north is so important," Fuhr said at an announcement in Ottawa on Tuesday. "It will allow us to detect threats earlier and make and communicate information to decision makers faster." A strategic partnership is a rare approach to procurement that places industry involvement closer to the beginning of the process. Fuhr said Ottawa wants to use such partnerships "where we can and when we can." The partnership is for the Enhanced Satellite Communications Project — Polar (ESCP-P) project. It comes with a budget that exceeds $5 billion and is part of Ottawa's $38.6-billion plan for North American Aerospace Defence Command modernization. The federal government awarded a project contract to Telesat in partnership with MDA Space worth $2.92 million for engineering and options analysis. Documents tabled in Parliament this month state the current scheduled date for ESCP-P to come online is 2037, with full operational capability expected in 2041, although the Department of National Defence has been searching for ways to speed up the project. National Defence documents tabled in September say $7.6 million was spent on the project as of May this year. Most of the Norad modernization projects are still in their early stages but the department says 15 will be "costed, prioritized and accelerated as necessary" by the end of next year. Ottawa issued requests for information years ago but the file has been plagued by delays, including a re-evaluation of the project's scope. Fuhr said Tuesday Ottawa didn't have the money for some time, but government officials "just look at the world differently now than we did then." "Part of this big military defence spend isn't just to equip our Canadian Forces with the tools and equipment they need. We need to stimulate the Canadian economy with this money," he said. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ottawa-inks-partnership-canadian-firms-153829847.html

Your statements are overly generous. In every institution people have their own agendas it’s human nature. There has been plenty of intrigue in the senior military ranks and between the military and civilian government. Not to the same extent. For example we have no Marines. USA has no wilderness / Arctic SAR. They do a lot less extreme cold and arctic But it’s not. Canada and other small militaries are known to have far better trained military members because they don’t have luxury of having hordes of “average” personnel. You hear this all the time about how US recruits are specialized almost immediately into radio operator, machine gunner etc whereas a Canadian infantryman learns the basics of everything before specializing Canadian artillery crew are trained to perform every position in the gun detachment (or nearly every one) and they regularly rotate whereas in the US each crew member is trained to do one position only. Canadian and other small NATO airforce fighter pilots are trained to a higher standard of competency than “average” US pilots. And so on. They’re a small proportion of their total force, 1 division of about 12,000 troops and they were only stood up in 2022. Prior to that USA had no specialized Arctic force, just traditional army units that happened to be based in Alaska but operated conventionally without any specialized arctic training equipment or doctrine. The US also had entire divisions that have never seen snow. Yes cost is an issue but Canada also didn’t expect to be in a near peer conflict environment as we are today. Wheeled vehicles are actually superior for the kinds of missions we had actually been doing since the Korean war. RO-RO capability isn’t about landing ships under fire it’s about being able to get into theatre quickly without needing a railhead or other complicated logistics and infrastructure. I recall that Canadian Coyotes were some of the first allied vehicles into Kosovo after disembarking in Greece from chartered ships because they could just hit the highway and fly down the road. At the time the US had nothing as fast as our LAV fleet except Humvees and they were limited by their Bradley’s low speed, short range and large logistics tail which is why they then pursued the Stryker program based on the Canadian LAV Point being Canada doesn’t simply operate a version of the US mechanized brigade with cheaper vehicles, we have different doctrine and role on the battlefield

I didn’t lie about what Trump said. I correctly pointed out that YOU can’t even explain Trump’s arguments in your own words. LMAO Wrong. You can’t possibly believe your own horeshit. A tank firing at someone is combat. People supporting that tank are participating in the combat but only because they are part of the tank’s combat . “Running drugs” is not combat. Exactly what “operations” do you think the dugs “fuel?” Drugs IS the operation You cannot point to any of these alleged “narco-terrorists” actually targeting and killing and Americans which is exactly why they’re not terrorists and it’s not combat As above. You can’t honestly be this stupid. Nobody said there are no drug cartels You seem to be suggesting all drug cartels are “narco terrorists” now If so,Trump just pardoned a major drug cartel kingpin, one of the worst in fact, because he has MAGA connections like most of the world’s villains. Republicans have a long history supporting drug cartels going back to Reagan. So are you saying republicans support narco-terrorists ? If not then explain why these particular Venezuelans are “narco-terrorists” but not the cartels Trump and Republicans supported What is so different? This is what I asked you already and you dodged The military follows orders that come directly from the president that’s a fact of law. If they break a law while doing so we only find out when there’s an unauthorized leak and there usually is one. The crime was most clearly committed by the officer who decided to go for the second kill. Hegseth’s statement of “kill them all” which everyone understands he said at the beginning not after the first strike is just negligent and incompetent at most but what else do you expect from someone who has absolutely ZERO qualifications for the job. As for he statement they were shooting at the wreckage not the people clinging to it that’s absurd. That’s like a 9/11 hijacker saying they were just trying to damage the plane not hurt the people on board. Keep repeating your lies, liar. Look at what you’ve become. LOL WHAT GIBBERISH ARE YOU SPOUTING? What terrorist operations ? In one breath you say the dtug trade is funding “terrorist operations”. What terrorist operations. Who are they attacking with terrorism? Then in another breath you seem to suggest that the trade IS the terrorist operation because drugs are bad and people can die from them. But you continue to dodge the question. LOOK if you can show me that these people are funnelling money to Al Qaeda or something and being ised to attack Americans then your arguments and your silly tank analogy would have some merit but you keep talking in circles amd you can’t describe a single act of actual terrorism or a single way these people are attacking Americans and that’s a fact. Amd Now Trump has seized an oil tanker for reasons he won’t explain and his fighters are buzzing the Venezuelan shoreline. We all know Trump is going to invade Venezuela that’s what all this BS is about. The White House is engineering a coup by anti-Maduro forces and the US will invade to “stabilize” the country. That is what’s going to happen and he hilariously thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. He will have to settle for the fake award he got from his little crony at FIFA.

Nobody has been granted any exemptions under this law yet so you’ll find out if and when it’s ever actually used.

So? I never asked that. I KNOW no country can trust USA especially under Trump. It accuses the EU of “undermining political liberty and sovereignty” and says US should “cultivate resistance” within European countries. Imagine if any European country put out a policy document calling for “cultivating resistance” in the US. YOU PEOPLE WOULD PROBABLY DECLARE WAR It calls for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia and nothing from Russia in return even though Russia started the war and gaining territory by military conquest is a violation of international law. These are not lies. This is the take of everyone who is not an American Trump supporter. Pick up a newspaper

They RELUCTANTLY import gas from Russia because they were foolish enough to become dependent on it years ago. Just like how Trump and so many Republicans still have business dealings with China. Hungary actively supports Russia Trump’s National Security Strategy which Russia applauded, which basically calls for the destruction of the EU, the US to actively undermine Western European governments in favour of far-right populist “resistance” (which ate all pro-Russian parties) and the surrender of Ukraine No wonder the Kremlin said it “aligns” with their own strategy

The suggestion that it’s for friends and in exchange for private favours is just your made-up conspiracy. It’s obviously to help juice major projects and investments and it’s all a matter of public record. Could the law be abused? Sure any law can be abused but who gets what under this law is all a matter of public record. And if conservatives truly do the believe in private favours why do so many support Trump and his minions who have basically turned the White House into their own private racket machine?

Yep we don’t make those weapons and our fleet only works with those so it is what it is.

Conservatives hate all those things anyway. You should be creaming your jeans right now. Or are you just upset that the exemptions are only temporary and to be granted in exceptional circumstances??

Of course you do you make them all the time.

Once again you show you know nothing about the military. You can’t have a strong military without a strong defence industry and supply chains. Also, USA doesn’t buy hardly any European defence products so why do you whine about Europe trying to reduce its dependence on US imports? You already get 2 thirds of European defence spending and claim you want them to be LESS dependent, you act like you’re ENTITLED to their money Meanwhile when Airbus won the USAF air-air refuelling tanker competition with the widely used and proven MRTT, the US simply declared a do-over and rewrote the requirements to favour Boeing even though their KC-46 was inferior in almost every way on paper and can’t even live up to those shitty standards in practice because of endless glitches and teething. Because no way in hell is anyone in USA going to let a major contract like that go to a European company and have Americans flying around in Airbus planes.

OP Hypothesis confirmed. Top US official berates Europe over cutting American industry out of defense buildup Washington is unhappy that some European arms programs limit U.S. participation. https://www.politico.eu/article/christopher-landau-top-us-official-berates-europe-nato-cut-industry-defense-buildup/ I’ll just borrow the words of Substack contributor Black Cloud Six, a retired Canadian Army officer of 25 years since he described it so nicely : So, Trump’s gangster administration demands massive increases in defence spending, assuming it will, as usual, get a big cut of the pie. Now, they’re shocked when Europe (and Canada) leverage their own very substantial industrial capacity to go their own way on defence production. In typical gangster fashion, they dispatch a “NATO skeptic” bagman to demand a piece of the action. Well, there should be only one response to bullies and shakedown artists….😡

Postponed to December 9. I wonder if that had anything to do with the Carney/Trump meeting that ended up getting scheduled for today? Perhaps they thought whatever they’re announcing would antagonize Trump?

No, you proved you are unable to explain in your own words and you’re unable to. Posting a link to Trump’s lies doesn’t prove the very same lies are accurate. THE EXISTENCE OF THE TANK IS WHY THERE IS COMBAT YOU DUMMY YES…A guy carrying fuel to a tank that is firing on you is participating in combat and attacks against you NO….A guy who is just carrying fuel down the street and there is no tank and nobody firing at you is NOT participating in combat or attacking you HOW DO YOU NOT GET IT????? His made up claims don’t prove his made up claims. You’re the one saying absurdly that the fact that the military is carrying out the orders is evidence proving that Trump’s bogus claims are true otherwise the military would refuse to carry them out. Circling back to kill survivors clinging to a raft because you were ordered to “kill them all” is a war crime. Striking an unarmed boat full of unarmed people who are NOT terrorists is a war crime, even if the president lies and claims they are. You’re such a shameless liar, this is what you’ve reduced yourself to. Aren’t you even a little bit embarrassed? They don’t go from Venezuela to USA. Sure SOME drugs (if that’s even what is on those boats) might end up there but mostly what passes through Venezuela gets dispersed to other Caribbean and Latin countries before being further dispersed over the rest of the world. It’s a global market. Typical American thinks everything is about him. Nope just facts you can’t handle

No Carney isn’t doing it for his own personal emotions and he’s not sleazy either Hilarious that someone who would admire Trump , the epitome of personal and business sleaze would complain about it, much less randomly apply it to someone who is known to be the absolute opposite of sleaze. Words have meaning, you can’t call a near-freak a slob or a workaholic lazy just because you hate them and it’s an insult It’s also hilarious that you complain about his lack of military experience, unlike who, Poilievre? Harper? Draft dodging Trump and his fake bone spurs? Nobody has slept on more satin pillows than your hero Trump and yet you have no problem with him running the military. The military answers to the civilian government in every democratic country, it doesn’t get to make its own rules and it doesn’t get blank cheques. The US uses its military in different ways because their military resources are so vast, they have different doctrine and they place less emphasis on cold climate performance. Some examples; Canada usually requires vehicles and personnel to be more well-rounded and able to perform a variety of roles where the US would have different people or vehicles for each role and even sometimes prefers lower quality in order to have greater quantity (e.g. M-16 rifles). US military has bases and depots all over the world massive logistics operations whereas Canada has fewer of those and needs gear that can be shipped where needed on short notice including arctic. Unlike the US Army the Canadian Army is not going to be employed on the battlefield field in the same was as US troops US army prefers big heavy equipment and tracked vehicles and has entire fleets of transport trucks, rail cars etc to move them around the theatre and around the globe, Canada prefers lighter wheeled vehicles that can quickly roll/on rolloff and move at high road speed but are not suited for frontal assault against a peer threat in high intensity combat Canada needs SAR aircraft with long endurance for our vast wilderness and offshore territory, in the US military only Coast Guard does SAR, with little to no requirement for on-shore or arctic capability and they have bases all along the coast so range, and ability to operate in mountains or arctic etc are not heavily considered. So the fact that the US military is so large might actually be a reason why its equipment is NOT ideal for Canada compared to European militaries that play a risk more similar to one Canada would play especially northern countries like Sweden. As for factory location, nobody is bombing Europe it’s not really an issue. The European factories are actually closer to places in the world where we would deploy forces thou so maybe a savings on transportation if they go back there for service and repairs after a mission Besides Canada is looking for deals where vehicles and equipment are at least partially made in Canada wherever possible. Carney is no less able to understand the military than any of you conservative chickenhak heroes who have no more military knowledge In fact Carney seems to far more of a “details guy” who’s more likely to let the facts speak for themselves The A10 phase-out is well underway as its no longer survivable against a near-peer adversary. It would not be used today in a war against Russia or Iran. It’s more for use against the likes of ISIS or Taliban these days and since that type of threat is not yet zero and since replacing it with F-35s is expensive there are still some A10 squadrons remaining for now.

Come on. They make a big public show of seizing drug ships all the time under Operation Caribe complete with photo ops and all. And they have no problem releasing footage of the boat strikes. It’s silly to suggest they can’t show any hint of evidence of “mother ships” or submersibles without releasing classified and technical reports. But cocaine doesn’t come from Venezuela its a transit point. They’re not the beginning of the supply chain or “the real bad guys” as you define them, they’re just more middlemen. And the US, Canada and others already intercept drug shipments in the Caribbean through operation caribe so that’s already a thing they do. Venezuela is not the source. The numbers speak for themselves including not one but two airstrikes against Canadians in Afghanistan, drone strikes on civilians, an Apache attack on Iraqi ambulances while the pilots laugh and cheer watching the doctors run for cover, there’s an endless list of incidents and atrocities both deliberate and unintentional. From Vietnam to Iraq, My Lai, Rolling Thunder, Haditha, Tarnak Farms, Abu Ghraib, Fallujah, hundreds of other examples, the US is NOTORIOUS for friendly fire and collateral damage and not holding the perpetrators of war crimes responsible after the fact. I’m not saying they have zero protocols but professional adherence to weak protocols isn’t the same thing.

Several, just got one a couple weeks ago and Im perfectly healthy, probably healthier than you, dipshit. LMAO My life is great! I’m successful, educated and upper income with an awesome and fulfilling personal and professional life while you’re a dumbass ignorant high school dropout filled with right wing lies propaganda and nutjob conspiracies, living a shitty life with a shitty job (if you even have one) with shitty income in a shitty town and blaming everyone except yourself for your miserable existence.

1) Cocaine isn’t grown or made in Venezuela, if he’s truly aiming for the source it ain’t there 2) As you say the drugs that do get smuggled are distributed all around the world, Trump is suggesting it is primarily aimed at USA as part of someone’s sinister plot to destroy the USA. 3) The unarmed go/fast boats are easy to intercept and board, no need to destroy on sight and the evidence along with it 4) Following the boats to destination could take down entire global distribution networks in jurisdictions USA has influence over rather than a rogue state US has zero influence over. 5) The fact that Trump is massing invasion forces and carrying out special operations inside Venezuela while pardoning a convicted cocaine smuggling kingpin from Honduras just 1 year into his sentence proves this isn’t about cutting off Don Jr’s favourite party accessory after all.

Because they’re shameless liars. They just label anyone they want as terrorists when they want to kill someone. The word “terrorist” has an actual meaning it’s not just whatever Trump says it is. The history books are full of dictators who falsely the “terrorist” label as an excuse whenever they want to justify killing someone.

LMAO. only a brainwashed MAGA twit would consider a link to Trump’s lies on the White House propaganda page is “education,” or think that the way you prove Trump’s lies are true id just to post link back to the same damn lie. Go drink some more kool-aid you fool. Dummy: there’s no combat. Someone fueling a tank that’s killing Americans is still helping kill Americans and that’s what makes him a legit target. You can’t compare that to Venezuela where nobody there has any connection to any Americans being targeted and saying it’s the same thing. How clueless are you? Its hilarious By your argument, - Mark Carney should be allowed to declare YOU a terrorist and it’s true simply because he says so, - he can then send the Canadian military to kill you in your sleep or gun you down wherever, which is “combat” simply because it involves the military - and the evidence that automatically proves it all to be true and a legitimate kill is simply fact that the military wouldn’t have followed his orders otherwise, no further evidence needed or accepted - and that killing you or any other person on the planet is no different than killing a terrorist who fuels a tank that kills Canadian soldiers because neither you nor the tank filler not anyone else directly kills Canadians. Does this help you see how absolutely stupid your arguments are? Yes he did he simply decree these people ate terrorist. Their “terrorist group” doesn’t have a name or an ideology or any sort of political agenda or as far as I can tell any history of actually committing terrorist attacks which is of course strange for a terrorist group. There doesn’t seem be any definition of terrorist that fits and Trump doesn’t seem to be promoting one, he doesn’t really care about things like definitions anyway. They’re “terrorists” only because he says they are because drugs are bad. You’re just repeating your lies and ignorance about the military now. You’re have no intelligent arguments so you’re just going to sit at your computer 24/7 because you are a loser who has no life and repeat your nonsense until the the other person walks away and then you say “I won am internet argument” amd your life has meaning for a few minutes. “Ours is not to question why ours is but to donor die”. That’s a famous saying that a clueless shmuck like you obviously hasn’t heard of. The military doesn’t get to question the President. The military doesn’t have the option to agree or disagree with presidential orders or go public if they have a concern. If you’re so hopelessly dumb that you don’t understand that, there’s no helping you. You are neither serious nor honest you just repeat your lies and asinine arguments until the other person gives up because unlike most people you have no other life besides typing internet arguments 24/7. They exist for a reason. You can’t just order the military to kill whoever you feel like. These people Trump is targeting are not narco-terrorists. You can’t even provide a definition of what one is or how these people meet that definition. You can’t articulate what “terrorist” acts they committed. You continue to avoid these questions and just post links back to Trump’s lies and propaganda on the white house website because you can’t answer the question. Let me help you Narco-terrorism is where: 1) drug cartels engage in acts of terrorism such as bombings and assassination against law enforcement or government officials > NOT THE CASE HERE…no US citizens or officials have been targeted and Trump is alleging they are working for the Venezuelan government 2) Traditional terrorist groups with political motives engage in drug trafficking to raise money > NOT THE CASE HERE….not the case here, there are no terrorist groups operating in Venezuela Your BS argument is if you have drugs then you must be a “narco terrorist” which is false not to mention you haven’t even proven there are drugs. US and Canadian ships seize tons of drugs in the Caribbean each year why haven’t any been seized here? Why did they release survivors of a recent strike who were captured if they’re “narco-terrorists”? I’ll tell you, because after the “kill them all” debacle of the second strike where they circled back to execute survivors clinging to wreckage someone in the kill chain understood that was a big no-no. Nope my arguments were accurate the ignorance was in your lack of comprehension. I said they’re thousands of miles from US shores a d in short range boats so clearly not smuggling drugs into USA. You are so dense. The military and intelligence locates the target and makes the recommendation, the president reviews and approves based on the information they provide. So Obama is the one who said “hunt down and kill AlQaeda” and the military/intelligence says “ok take my word for it, that gathering is an al Qaeda meeting…oops turns out after the fact that was a wedding sorry Mr president ”. You are trying to make it sound kind Obama said “go bomb a wedding full of innocent people”. Now for Trump, it went like this, with Trump saying “our new policy is that all drug smuggling off the coast of Venezuela is now called “narco-terrorism” because we say it is and we’re shameless liars for whom words have no meaning. These “narco-terrorist “ boats are to be destroyed on sight no questions asked, leave no survivors even though they’re unarmed and could be easily captured, which we think we can get away with because we’re now calling them terrorists” And the military says “ok take my word for it, the boats we targeted had drugs in them although by blowing them to pieces on sight we don’t have any evidence….oops circling back to execute those survivors on that second boat was a little too obvious, we’ll try to kill everyone with the first shot as much as possible otherwise we might have to rescue them and let them go.”

And yet with an entire US naval fleet in the area not one submersible (which probably couldn’t reach the US either) or “mule ship” has been reported. Why not follow these alleged drug boats to their destination? Wouldn’t that be the biggest prize? As for the professionalism of the US military, as I said their record of friendly fire and civilian casualties speaks for itself. They have a reputation for being trigger happy and indifferent to the consequences when the wrong people get killed

Venezuela doesn’t produce cocaine nor is it a final hub for shipments headed to USA. The Trump administration is nothing but haphazard, reckless and careless. While I am sure the US military does take steps to target actual drug dealers not random civilians, their poor record on friendly fire and civilian casualties speaks for itself