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Numbers seem dubious.

FTFY

1) No we didn’t have “lots of soldiers” “before the woke”. CAF has been downsized by design and also by neglect for decades now 2)Actually plenty of people are applying. But the CAF only processes a fraction of the applications because they’re so under-resourced. As of the most recent report year there were more than 70,000 applications but fewer than 5,000 were processed because of backlogs in screening and training and personnel shortages. 3) Women and “gays” have proven themselves in combat a long time ago. That said culturally the military is probably never going to have the same appeal for those demographics so uptake will probably be limited.

It’s not the only thing we contribute weve trained tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops for example. Also just as a point of fact the GAs role is to advise Canadian leaders not necessarily teach other countries. .

Yeah I corrected myself in a later post

Lol you and your conspiracy batshit. Find any chemtrails lately?

You cannot be arrested for saying you’ve done drugs in the past. Which is why that never happens despite so many people doing it. You cannot be arrested for being under the influence of drugs which is why cops regularly bring high/stoned/doped up people to the hospital but don’t arrest them. You only get arrested if authorities find the drugs in your possession

It’s not a crime to consume drugs. You have to be caught with them in your possession. That’s why people openly talk about past drug use without getting arrested. Similarly I think it’s hard to prosecute someone for soliciting prostitution if you don’t actually catch them with the prostitute or at least a record of communication. Oh and I stand corrected it seems while 16 is age of consent in Florida, it is also illegal for anyone over age 24 to have sex with anyone under age 18. But like drug use and prostitution its hard to prosecute after the fact without direct evidence. You misrepresent the “evidence”. They did secretly meet with Russians to discuss mutually beneficial arrangements, they did lie about those meetings, and they did obstruct the investigation. And some had secret financial dealings with Russian oligarchs and intermediaries including laundering dirty Russian money in the case of Manafort. And in their public statements they are kinder to Putin than to Ukraine. Those are all facts. Gaetz is a bad man because he’s a known scumbag all on his own. Trump is a totally separate scumbag. But birds of a feather flock together.

It’s just proof what a basket of deplorables the MAGAs are and how Trump was going to make this scumbag the AG. Gaetz’s misconduct has been well known for a long time, especially in Trump’s home state of Florida. One of his buddies went to jail for trafficking underage girls in a case where Gaetz had been implicated. Just goes to show Trump doesn’t care what scumbags his appointees are and even if you want to buy the claim that Trump was somehow completely ignorant it still shows he’s not even doing basic due diligence on his reckless appointments.

Prosecute Gaetz for what? You can’t prosecute someone for having done drugs in past and as far as I know you can’t prosecute someone for having paid for sex in the past. Having sex with a 17 year old is also legal AFAIK. The rest of your post about “Biden fleecing enemies for money” and there being definitive proof of such is just more of your nonsense. The people taking money from America’s enemies are the Putin acolytes on team Trump

Check your memory COVID started under Trump. Biden is weak or Biden is a warmonger? You guys can’t get your story straight. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine started in 2014. Trump implicitly supported this when his campaign team secretly met either Russians to entertain proposals to end US sanctions against Russia and recognize Russian annexation of Ukrainian territory. He also held up military aid to Ukraine and gave Putin a thorough blowjob in Helsinki. Putin’s 2022 invasion was due to the fact that he lost a partner in Washington and decided he needed to act fast to take Ukraine. Hezbollah’s attack was attempt by the Russia-Iran axis to cause chaos and divide US forces. By that time billions of advanced US weaponry was going to Ukraine to kill Russians, nobody was thinking US was weak or had stepped aside.

1) False - Biden inherited a fked up covid economy from Trump 2) False - Putin and his Iranian ally did amd Israel made it worse 3) Nobody cares what YOU claim to have said. Republicans declared GWB a genius and even tried to get him a Nobel PEACE prize for his ginned up fraudulent warmongering crime against humanity known as the Iraq invasion I highly doubt you were throwing in your lot with the Democrats opposed. You only say GWB is a mor-n NOW because it’s an indisputable fact of history maybe in a decade or 2 you’ll admit the same about Trump. Deity worship of whoever is leader-du-jour is intrinsic to conservatism especially the Republican brand. One the Dear Leader steps down he’s chopped liver so you then feel free to criticize him and retroactively align your beliefs with reality while you worship the new messiah. It’s hilarious how nobody can find a single republican who admits to supporting GWB and his criminal war now. Just like nobody can find anyone in the south who remembers supporting segregation and Jim Crow, those people must have all boarded the same spaceship for another planet or something.

You’re saying it’s ok to start military conflict's as long as you win quickly?

The economy is not rick bottom, BIDEN isn’t fighting any wars (I don’t hear you complaining about the Republicans’ wars in Grenada, Latin America, Iraq and Afghanistan or the Bush’s wars against terror BTW)

LMAO! Translation; “its true because I wish it was true, nothing else matters!”

LMAO “HungarianConservative.com” doesn’t sound like a very credible website especially since the corrupt Putin-loving dictator of Hungary (whom Republicans openly admire) is know for outrageous propaganda

Yep that’s life in the 21st century The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) sends troops on missions to countries where people have different views and customs. They may look at gender—being male or female—in a different way than in Canada. These countries face crises that affect men, women, boys and girls in different ways. Crises could include war, violence, hurricanes, and earthquakes, among others. The CAF uses a tool called Gender-based analysis Plus (GBA+) to consider gender in all stages of operations. These include planning, running operations and evaluating them afterwards. The CAF uses this tool to judge how policies, programs, services, and practices might affect diverse groups of women and men. The "plus" in the name shows that it looks at other identity factors besides gender. These include age, schooling, language, geography, culture and income. By considering GBA+ and gender, the CAF: Better understands how certain people might be at risk in countries where it has missions; and Is better able to reach its mission goals. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/operations/military-operations/conduct/gender-perspectives.html NATO Office of the Gender Advisor From leadership to troops on the ground, integrating the gender perspective and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the military is an essential component of NATO’s common values and operational effectiveness. https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_101372.htm US DOD Gender Advisors https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002159478/

DND warns availability of Canadian military equipment is dropping A lack of money and staff as well as aging equipment were the cause of the problems outlined in a new report. Get the latest from David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen straight to your inbox Published Dec 18, 2024 • 4 minute read The percentage of navy and army equipment that is supposed to be ready for training and operations has continued to decline, warns a new report from the Department of National Defence. A lack of money and staff as well as aging equipment were the cause of the problems, according the Departmental Results Report 2023-2024. “There is a risk that DND/CAF may have difficulty maintaining its materiel capabilities at the right level to support operations,” the report, released Dec. 17, pointed out. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The percentage of key naval fleets that are serviceable to meet training and readiness requirements in support of concurrent operations dropped from 51.2 per cent in 2022-2023 to 45.73 per cent in 2023-2024, according to the report. The target for the navy is this area is supposed to be at least 60 per cent. For key army fleets that serviceability rate dropped from 56 per cent to 49 per cent during the same time frame. The target for the army in this area is supposed to be at least 80 per cent. Serviceability rates for air force fleets increased slightly but were also far off the target. Those rates went from 43.88 per cent in 2022-2023 to 48.9 per cent in 2023-2024. The target in the air force is supposed to be at least 85 per cent. The report also lists what DND considered the three key risks associated with not having forces ready. Those include the overall lack of military personnel, the lack of specific skilled staff and the problems with maintenance. For instance, the report pointed out that during the fiscal year 2023-2024, the Royal Canadian Navy did not meet its serviceability targets due to aging fleets, the introduction of new ships and the lack of sailors. In some cases the problems were the result of issues with new equipment, such as the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships, which have had ongoing mechanical problems. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. For the army, the issue was a lack of money as well as “the aging and increasingly obsolete fleets,” the report added. The Royal Canadian Air Force was dealing with “a limited number of qualified technicians, and the ongoing transition from legacy platforms to new capabilities.” DND officials did not provide comment by deadline. The report noted that DND and the Canadian Forces spent $33.5 billion during the fiscal year 2023-2024. DND did report that it was able to cut $211 million by reducing travel and the hiring of consultants. Additional savings are expected to be found in the coming year in those areas as well, according to the report. Despite the setbacks, the message from Defence Minister Bill Blair in the report was upbeat. He highlighted the Liberal government’s promises to invest heavily in the Canadian Armed Forces or CAF in the future. “The top priority of the CAF is defending Canada, which also contributes to protecting our shared continent with the United States,” Blair wrote in his introduction to the document. “Canada is reinforcing our commitment to the North American Aerospace Defense Command with an investment of $38.6 billion over 20 years.” This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In April, the Liberal government released its long-awaited defence policy update, promising to increase the military’s annual budget from around $30 billion to almost $50 billion by the end of the decade. In the policy update, the Liberal government also announced a series of new equipment purchases. The government will buy specialized maritime sensors to improve ocean surveillance as well as build a new satellite ground station in the Arctic. It will also establish additional support facilities in the Arctic for military operations. The Liberals have also committed to buying new long-range missiles for the Canadian Army. In addition, they will accelerate the establishment of a new artillery ammunition production capacity in the country. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has also committed to buying new submarines in the future. The Liberals have been under intense pressure from the U.S. and NATO to spend more on the Canadian Forces. That pressure is expected to increase significantly once Donald Trump becomes U.S. president in January. The policy update will bring Canadian defence spending up to 1.76 per cent of GDP, which still falls short of a NATO agreement of two per cent of GDP. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Trudeau has defended the Liberal government track record on defence, noting that when he came to power the previous Conservative government was only spending one per cent of GDP on the military. “We started to invest massively in the Canadian Forces,” Trudeau added. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/dnd-warning-canadian-military-equipment-dropping

Even if the ****** -in-chief was dead serious at the time he said it, he would get distracted and forget about it after a few days and even if he didn’t it would still never happen for thousand reasons like congress, and the fact that there is no legal authority to do so in US or international law. He can’t just singlehandedly order the invasion of another country. Even Bush/Cheney’s cabal of warmongering chickenhawks weren’t able to act on their longstanding goal to invade Iraq until after 9/11.

Sure there is. USA needs our resources. They have a large trade deficit with us. USA has never acted on principles it’s always about the money.

People just need to stop reacting to the shitposter-in-chief’s online trolling he gets just as many giggles from negative reactions as he does from positive ones and he couldn’t care less about his lies being debunked or fact checked, the truth means nothing to him. The $100Mil number he mentions is just a totally made up figure based on nothing. Earlier this month he said $100 BILLION in a similar statement. Million, billion, zillion whatever he’s literally just shitposting to get attention and reaction and generate his dumbass tweets need to be ignored. There’s not a grain of truth or reason to any of it. He hates lefties and prefers a conservative government in Canada. He also has an insatiable need for news stories about himself. Online harassment and social media bullying will be the new presidential policy tools of choice.

America doesn’t do any of the things you listed above. And the market access we do have is because it’s in their interest also.

We will see. She has at least 5 years to make a name for herself, which can be an age in politics. .

Reaganomics broke those rules. Over the past several decades the insanely rich just got insanely richer but life only got harder for the working and middle classes: longer working hours, disappearing pensions and benefit plans, precarious employment, overcrowded schools and hospitals, soaring university tuition, soaring household debt and on and on. A single blue collar worker could once buy a home, a car maybe even a cottage and support his entire family but that hasn’t been true since the 90s or 80s. All so that the 1% and corporations could have more wealth to move to their offshore accounts.

We will see. I think a lot of Canadian voters are mature enough to understand this is how politics works