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[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

i'm going to have a fucking aneurysm

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@vj_v_ LeBron has an article 5 commitment from me and my fellow bronsexuals

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Beat them all the global entry line

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Listening to the Odyssey Troy soundtrack to beat the normies to the immigration line after landing at JFK

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@moodslayer95 Let’s not even get into making the western liberals understand that the “religious diversity” in India is actually a byproduct of colonization and invasion

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One half of me is enraged by the blatant hypocrisy of folks like him who call out India, which, with its faults, has a sizable population and political “left”, yet stay silent on the Arab world. Funnily, these “atrocities” happen less in those countries because they have so effectively suppressed minorities and denied them a powerful bloc the way India has. The other half takes pride that the almighty Western liberal holds India to a higher standard than Pakistan or Indonesia.

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@Arthur_NC_ @KofmanMichael @EvansRyan202

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The 45-unit purchase is what caught my eye, but honestly the more interesting question is what happens next.

Ukraine’s drone war seems to mutate every few weeks (new airframes, EW, countermeasures, tactics). If you guys can actually keep the seeker/software relevant through that cycle, that’s incredibly impressive.

Would love to hear how you think about iteration velocity here. And if you take small checks, I’m interested 👀

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Sorry Sheel have to jump in here:

Still feels like a partial picture. There’s also a clear cultural / civic-sense component. The same low-trust, “use it or lose it” mindset shows up in other ways: being asked to switch seats so families who didn’t book together can sit as a unit (common on Indian domestic flights, extremely rare on US ones in my experience), the noticeably more demanding treatment of cabin crew on many international India routes, and the overall friction level on those flights (it’s frankly mind boggling and a reason I’ll pay materially more to get into a premium cabin).
Plenty of mobile, English-speaking middle-aged passengers use the wheelchair purely for priority boarding and overhead space. We don’t see this at the same scale with other Asian or African groups on comparable long-haul routes. Jugaad and scarcity habits make sense in a high-friction environment, but they export poorly into systems built on higher trust and limited resources… and end up hurting the people who actually need the assistance.
A paid meet-and-assist product would help a lot. So would more willingness inside our community to treat these patterns as something we can and should improve, rather than just explain away

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@hissgoescobra American hubris supercharged even after flailing in Iran. We’ll learn… but in typical American fashion…. The hard way

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Yes, let’s de-drone the U.S. military after a Ukrainian drone unit wiped the floor with the Americans in Germany. I swear this would not surprise me if it’s entirely the ego of Hegseth not wanting to implicitly admit the Ukrainians figured out something new.

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@smoggy1536445 Unfortunately that means to our close allies, they have to weather Trump for 2 more years

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@smoggy1536445 For example, there’s no short term solution for EU to address continent wide logistics and c&c and long range fires. For the SKs this might be strategic bombers and nuclear propulsion tech. Either way, they’re dependent on the US for a while

[Fubar🇨🇦 @Captain_Fubar]

The US's entire justification for abandoning Ukraine and slashing defence priorities was to "pivot to Asia"

[Michael Lucci @Michael7ucci]

Here are a few points you might be misreading or over-emphasizing in ways that are unhelpful to Canada.

First, of course the U.S. is going to notice when Canada declares Communist China it's strategic partner, partners w/ the CCP's Gestapo police forces despite objections from Canadian law enforcement and the Chinese diaspora in Canada, imports the CCP spy vehicles that Democrats banned in America, white washes the CCP's genocide that has united Democrats and Republicans in America, and then conjures up and proposes a middle powers alliance that seems to be a collection of countries who have spent 2 decades ignoring their responsibilities to develop and maintain hard power capacities. There is not a revelation to be found in America noticing yet another self-destructive streak in close allies. Carney's broad defection against Western alliances and values and towards the Chinese Communist Party will of course be noticed, especially since Canada has seriously lagged on addressing homeland security threats presented by the CCP that also impact the U.S. This does not signal seriousness and resolve.

Second, part of the supposed "threat" of the middle powers is that they will (maybe) actually get to work on being ready to defend themselves without defaulting into handing off security problems to the U.S. There is a deep irony here, because the U.S. has been asking them to do exactly that for 15 years since the Obama administration. "We're so mad at you and the massive trade markets and largely free defense services you provide for us, so in a tantrum, we are going to cut off our own nose to spite our face" by rejecting (?) America's superior military capabilities and war technologies that much of the rest of the world would make great sacrifices to have.

Again, this does not signal seriousness and resolve. It's more like the 32 year old living in the basement who won't get a job who then finally throws a tantrum saying 'I'm going to run away and get a job because mom and dad are so annoying about my joblessness.' Quietly making good on decades-ignored alliance commitments would show strength and resolve, while defaulting into theatrics shows weakness and potential lack of seriousness.

Third, I would take what Colby says at exactly face value instead of re-engineering it into a more comfortable narrative. American strategists should harbor legitimate and well-founded concerns that Canada and European allies will go down yet another fruitless and self-destructive path that will end up far worse for Canada than for America. That's what Colby is warning. He's not saying you're going to hurt America, he's saying you're going to hurt yourselves when instead of this fantasy project, you can just focus your energy on the essentials. Canada and many of the Western European countries have repeatedly taken a self-destructive path, often underwritten by some sort of belief that a few extra layers of rhetoric and theatrics can somehow translate into the economic growth and military hard power you don't have.

There's a straightforward path for Canada and Western Europe to take: 10,000% focus on building hard power and strong economies. That needs to be done no matter what. Immediately defaulting into rhetoric and theatrics about geopolitical fantasies should immediately give Americans concerns about another bout of self-harm coming from up north.

To play devil's advocate on this, if your actual intention is to separate from America and go it on your own to defend yourselves through the middle powers fantasy, *what you're doing is would not be the way to execute this plan.* The smart play would be to quietly accept the free defense services that America still provides despite all the tweets Canada doesn't like, continue to enjoy the implicit threat from the Americans to kick either Russia's or China's ass if they mess with Canada, all while making the necessary investments in defense capacities while unleashing the Canadian economy in a way that is necessary to underwrite future Canadian hard power. Then maybe 5-10 years down the road after significant capacities have been developed, the middle powers could make good on the fantasy. *What you wouldn't do* is immediately tell the USA about a plan you have that you think will hurt the USA before you actually execute that plan, because that would unnecessarily provoke the Americans and generally be self-defeating.

And that gets the deepest strategic question: is Canadian leadership even capable of effective strategic planning and action? Because if they are, they're doing a hell of a job of hiding it.

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@Timcast Weren’t you indi…. You know what… I’ll take it. welcome to the club champ😭

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@kylekuzma Guy knows what he’s talking about

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@kylekuzma Kuz man… go off pls

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@HistoryBoomer A moderate on the right or left comes out and says this in their “golden elevator” moment PLZZZZ