WTF Canada?!

[DBTrek]

But Iran hungers for relevancy.
Americans can respect that.
Pod people comfortably reclining in the safety NATO has provided them, doing nothing but always talking much shit about the actual doers- no respect.
/shrug

[Smitty-48]

There are no allies to stand up to government overreach here.

Canadians in fact demand ever more government overreach.

They are totally enthralled by government as the solution to everything.

So that war is already lost before it has started.

They can extract taxes from me at gun point, but other than that, I'm not getting involved.

[Smitty-48]

But Iran hungers for relevancy.
Americans can respect that.
Pod people comfortably reclining in the safety NATO has provided them, doing nothing but always talking much shit about the actual doers- no respect.
/shrug

But I proudly served the Supreme Allied Commander Europe at the sharp end of NATO, so I think I did my part.

I mean, I'm getting old now, the infantry is a young man's game.

[DrYouth]

...the last couple of times we’ve gone out raiding you guys stayed home.

Are you saying that was a bad decision?

[DBTrek]

...the last couple of times we’ve gone out raiding you guys stayed home.

Are you saying that was a bad decision?

I’m saying you’re irrelevant by choice. That’s all. You lack the ability to project economic or military force in any appreciable degree, and decide to sit things out when your allies are doing so.
/shrug

[Smitty-48]

Bear in mind that I am still associated with my regiment, that was voluntary.

But the left wing kooks are dismantling the Canadian military and there's nothing I can do to stop them.

At some point you just have to turn and walk away, to get on with life.

[DBTrek]

They’re doing it to the boy scouts here.
Probably just warming up for the military.
... but they’re gonna be in for a rude awakening.

[Smitty-48]

The left wing kooks don't even want the likes of me in the ranks.

I am loyal to the Commander-in-Chief at Buckingham Palace.

The left wing kooks call me "traitor" for that.

So clearly it is not my country anymore. I'm not even welcome here.

[DrYouth]

I’m saying you’re irrelevant by choice. That’s all. You lack the ability to project economic or military force in any appreciable degree, and decide to sit things out when your allies are doing so.
/shrug

The geopolitical sweet spot for a nation like Canada is not to be your raiding buddy... your sidekick right or wrong...

It's to remain relevant as the geopolitical tides shift... a diplomatic weight that is relevant even a potential kingmaker....

Whether we are in any way accomplishing this... I certainly can't say... I'm no geopolitical wonk...

But I would say that sitting out Iraq didn't make us any less relevant.

[DBTrek]

Which kings have you made, ever?


All non-players fancy themselves shrewd backroom dealers. But they deal only in self deception.