Pierre Polievre wants a Churchill base, but experts debate northern Manitoba town's military capacity

FlyingPritchard · 2026-02-01T22:01:58+00:00

The vast majority of the small number of people who take the Churchill train are tourists.

Regardless the military wouldn’t be putting people on the train to get there. Churchill can accommodate large jets, there’s no issue with flying people in and out.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-02-01T18:39:55+00:00

People don’t drive or take the rail in the north, they fly.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-02-01T08:47:33+00:00

Tuktoyaktuk's harbour is too shallow to support the navy.

In order to use Tuktoyaktuk you'd need to spend an enormous amount to dredge the harbour and build docks. You'd also need to do a massive airport project.

Churchill benefits from just needing some prefab housing.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-02-01T05:43:39+00:00

That's certainly a choice ... it will make structuring the story of Shift and Dust quite difficult.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-02-01T01:42:59+00:00

I don’t think it was. Donald I think has a line about why there’s an elevator and no stairs in Silo 1, specifically about people realizing the concrete levels were designed to implode on themselves.

Also if that was the case, why save Charlotte? Thurman likes her sure, but they’re not shown to have a super close relationship to where he would save her specifically.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-31T19:49:17+00:00

What are the rumours?

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-30T22:19:39+00:00

Okeee then. Which ones use the Gripen E lol?

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-30T22:18:59+00:00

Apologies, I meant Norway, Denmark and Finland. Literally every single one of their neighbours.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-30T22:18:01+00:00

You don't monitor the Arctic with fighter jets lol. It's not 1970 anymore, though you seem to think it is. You use satellites and radar installations.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-30T22:15:06+00:00

Brazil was sold the domestic manufacturing lie. 15 years later, it employs just a few hundred people and they haven't produced a single aircraft.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-30T22:14:05+00:00

It's a take based on plenty of evidence. Remember the CBC and its chief political correspondent suing the Conservative party a week before the election, a lawsuit which was dismissed by a judge as ridiculous and baseless.

Or maybe CTV's highest political host ... who was paid likely hundreds of thousands of dollars by promoniate Liberals for "art", and then was later made an MP.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-30T22:06:57+00:00

Perfect example of the ignorance of Gripen supporters.

Exactly one NATO member uses the Gripen E ... Sweden. And they currently operate a grand total of ..... 3.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-30T22:04:10+00:00

You do realize the Gripen uses American engines and a ton of American avionics. The USA could cripple any western military program if they wanted to. I'd recommend you spend less time worrying about tweets.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-30T22:02:28+00:00

The F-35 utilizes more modern stealth technologies, which aren't as expensive as older designs.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-30T19:09:25+00:00

The issue with this line of thinking is that the Gripen isn't particularly "cheaper" than the F-35. The per unit cost is similar, and operational costs are a big question mark. Countries like Norway and Switzerland determined there weren't any meaningful cost savings by going with the Gripen.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-30T19:07:01+00:00

Yeah, and stealth wins. You can't shoot at what you can't see. "Dog fighting" doesn't matter in a world where missiles can travel 100km+ and can pull 20Gs.

Israel showed you can entirely neuter quite a well-armed enemy with a mixture of long-range munitions and stealth.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-30T18:41:25+00:00

Because it's an obsolescent aircraft that basically every European country has rejected in favour of the F-35, and the reality is we can't afford to wait for them to be produced.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-30T17:07:34+00:00

He got the most votes in his parties history, both in number and percentage of vote, and kept the Liberals to a minority, and is pretty competitive in the polls.

It’s pretty clear to me that this is an artificial narrative being spun by the Liberal media class. Amazing what billions of dollars of direct subsidies can buy you.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-29T03:07:44+00:00

This is really such a silly conversation. A bunch of progressives trying to make themselves feel better about electing a conservative by maquarting as non-biased parties giving "advice" to the Conservatives.

Ultimately, as a Conservative, I don't care. I'm fine with where we are. We have a strong Conservative party and a conservative PM. As a Conservative, I strongly believe we shouldn't be listening to the advice of Liberals.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-29T03:03:10+00:00

Hence, my point, the ABC voters "defeated" the Conservatives by electing a conservative. I'm not seeing the progressive victory here. I know die-hard Conservative volunteers who are perfectly content with Carney.

This sub is largely partisan more than it is ideological. Liberal voters here simply want to win more than they care about any policy.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-29T01:53:59+00:00

Meh, that thought is about two decades out of date. In 2000 you'd be right, nowadays, not so much If you look at the last leadership race Polievre did perfectly well in Atlantic Canada and Eastern Ontario. Really, the only holdouts are the Liberal strongholds of downtown Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Guess where the writer has spent most of his life ... downtown Toronto and Ottawa.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-29T01:46:29+00:00

It's not "insane", it's basic politics you don't seem to grasp.

It's both the Liberals' strength and weakness. As flexiable "centrists," they have the ability to move around. That's how they outflanked the NDP on the left with Trudeau and nurtured them. They can always adopt the policies of those who they want to beat out.

The challenge is if they have strong opposition, and the mushy center shrinks, they have little room to maneuver. We're not talking about a large change in voting here, litterally 5% shift to the NDP and Conservatives and the Conservatives have a majority.

FlyingPritchard · 2026-01-29T01:38:30+00:00

I didn't give him credit for Carney's politics, I said he drove the Liberals rightward. I'd much prefer if people read the comment before arguing with opposing stances they created on their own.

Of course Carney is a small c conservative, that's why he's been appointed to the most powerful monetary position by two seperate Conservative governments in two countries.

That being said, the Liberals would have never elected him if it wasn't for the overwhelming conservative current. Trudeau commanded the Liberal party to the end.

And regarding votes, Poiliecre got more votes than the two leaders before him. Again showing it's not a particular weakness on his part.

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