Absolutely no one said that.

That’s 33 more years than for Epstein and company combined.

Well, there isn’t exactly a lot left to integrate.

This puts irony on a whole new level.

Two million dead fighting the Americans, only for their government to make way of their corpses so that the same elites can now golf there while on vacation. The Empire always wins in the end.

That would assume they sent out their productive citizens to the front. The Russian army is now composed of 60+ years old alcoholics and prisoners. This is intentional.

Not on the frontlines it would appear. The strategy of punishing Russia economically seems to be more effective than defeating them militarily.

Seems excessive for daily usage, you’re off a few orders of magnitude.

Prosecutors are part of the executive branch.

Makes the point of a neutral legal system pointless, then. Everything is legal until the political administration says otherwise.

It’s so hard for tactical games to find appropriate “villain countries” now.

Anywhere but Kharg Island.

The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations

Why even is this even a thing? Wasn’t there supposed to be separation of powers between executive and judiciary?

Most drugs are transported to Europe by boat. Where are the fines on shipping companies?

So coalition scenario. Then it will need more allies that just itself anyway.

Pretty harsh fine for a business like Temu, which relies on a difference of a few cents at large scale to make a profit.

Genuine concern or anti-competitive practices?

Sure, how about from the folks who shot it down.

Put it next to the claims of simultaneous laundry fires aboard US warships.

Probably correct; although we will never know until an offer is made. That’s why it will just remain a hypothetical.

What I should have said, is that buying the Gripen is an admission that they are voluntarily forfeiting their ability to fight a modern war.

I should have put it differently as well; what I meant was that Canada simply doesn’t have the capability to fight a modern war, and it never will. There’s too great of a differential between our main adversaries ( historically the USA, more recently Russia, and in a more far-fetched way China and India) and Canada; the metrics will never match up.

Come to think of it, Canada has never fought a war per se. It has only assisted in wars, usually as part some sort of Anglo-American coalition. I argue that we shouldn’t get involved in British or American wars (like we recently declined with Iran) and hence we wouldn’t really need any fighter capability. But in any case, even as part of an allied coalition, Canada will not be able to be the difference maker in the fight. We cannot determine the outcome of a war, that will be up to what our allies can make happen.

And therefore, we will not be starting any war; we might begrudgingly join one, in which case our allies will have to carry the day. None of these cases requires a powerful fighter fleet.

Might as well hold out and wait to acquire a 6th gen European platform, which should be available in the early 2040s.

Relying on the Europeans to achieve anything is basically a waste of time. Sure they may be able to do it, after long delays, but as I mentioned, 6th gen isn’t the point. The recon planes are a better asset that will actually see practical use; I would have preferred to see the E-3 Sentry get selected over this radar mounted on a business jet thing, but no one is going to cry over Boeing missing a contract. Maybe the Americans could put some duct tape on the ones they “damaged” in Iran and call it refurbished?

The irony is that Iran’s Shahed drones were probably… using GPS.

In every conflict from now on everybody who has to fight against the USA and wants a chance to survive needs to disable Starlink

Iran has been fighting well enough by working around Starlink. Plus, the easiest way to disable it is by jamming frequencies.