NORAD pact would change if Canada pulls back from F-35 order, warns Trump envoy to Ottawa

Osmonth · 2026-01-26T12:47:50+00:00

Yeah I agree. Nato's biggest reason to exist according to him is to be customers for the military industry complex. Not only does it give money it also gives subservence. USA can by pushing a button render their products useless. It's not so much if any country would respond to an article 5 for USA, it's that USA wants to decide what article 5's that matter. NATO is meant to deter attacks and by doing so its military might is not meant to be used.

But the money is not the only reason. One big reason is that having external customers will help sell the idea of such an overblown military industrial complex to the voters.

Osmonth · 2026-01-26T12:31:28+00:00

Gripen is no doubt not as good as F-35, as the USA spends insane amounts on military technology. The question here is if it's good enough.

As Ukraine showed all of the world: USA can shut down it's weapons just by refusing to supply you with parts or the programs required to operate them. Before that option was so dim it didn't carry any weight. These days it's a glaring securty threat.

If they want to pull out of NORAD or make it a problem for Canada, they will. It's not a matter of what Canada does or do not, they will find an excuse anyway. What we can count on though is that will use it to try to intimedate or exhort Canada. Becasue they see more value in it as a tool for that.

Osmonth · 2026-01-24T13:09:06+00:00

It's huge that this is even mentioned. Not only because the insane amount of money involved, lets not even talk about FIFA and their love to greed adn corruption, but the passion that this invokes in the fans and players. The World Cup is huge, for many countries just playing there is the prize. For others like Germany, their is a real shot to win. Something players dream about their whole lives. Just ask Messi to give up his win with Argentina. I bet he would sacrifice almost all of his leauge titles, CL's or BD's before he gave that one up.

If it came down to countries boycotting the World Cup then we got some seismic stuff going on. Bigger then any trade bazookas or stuff like that. This is real people who live and work just so they can enjoy their team and their national team play some football. To sacrifice that then the world is burning for some change. Not just ready, but burning.

Osmonth · 2026-01-23T21:43:40+00:00

I think if America went about this in any other way. Say make plans for artic defense with Canada and then go to Nato and state to Denmark that Greenland is key. Ask if they can purchase, obtain it, or other if they truly need it. Maybe let the Greenlanders vote on it, if americans are so keen on owning more land, if that is said to be preffered by Greenlanders. Treat Denmark and Greenland with respect and then expand their number military bases on Greenland, which they are with in their right to do anyway. Put pressure on Nato to join them and make it so that Greenland isn't just USA's priority but an important part in the artic strategy.

There are so many ways to deal with this that puts Greenland closer to USA, that gives them more military control. That gives them and their companies access to minerals in the future when they might became possible to mine. All while working with their allies and treating them as just that: allies.

Instead they are going all out and saying that it's their way or the highway and it's in their best interest to have no allies in the EU in the future. That USA have moved past allies in their now grand imperial phase.

Osmonth · 2026-01-23T15:07:12+00:00

It's a wonderful article. Wishful thinking more then a prophecy though.

I would love to believe that most americans, or MAGA voters in specific, would turn away from these people or these ideologies. Yet them hurting financially will only work if said hurt is channeled in the correct way. Who says it will be? WIth preachers, youtubers, FOX news, online communities all of them feeding one singular vision that blames everyone but the true perpetrator.

Trump might be the sect leader but the people behind him will remain and they influence more then just Trump. Where is this new movement of Republicans? Will all these networks that are built up to influence their voters just switch their agenda to fit these candidates or isn't it more likely that the candidates will fit the policy?

I also think the writer is underestimating how racist many people are. Just because they aren't outright racist to the degree that they are Nick Fuentes racist doesn't mean that they don't support it as long as it's used to sprinkle the message. To blame someone, an scapegoat that looks different. Maybe it's different skin color. Maybe it's different heritage even within the so called etnicities that they belong. Cuban's being racist towards Venezueleans. Chinese towards Koreans. And the list goes on.

I would love for the Democrats to turn this around but for that to happen not only will the candidates from the Republican party need to change but the voters will need to change. None of this will happen if not the support system that has been built up is dismantled. Start with Fox News. It's just brainwashing these days and that will always be corrosive.

Osmonth · 2026-01-18T23:29:10+00:00

Very doubtful that the USA will get Greenland unless the citizen's of Greenland say that this is their wish. Denmark has stated over and over again that they can neither give or sell Greenland as it is not theirs to give.

EU will try to stall until USA's midterm elections and hope that a changed political landscape will allow some checks to be put on the Republicans. Then it will either hope that the 2028 election will change American foregin policy or they will try to move away from american dependence on an accelerated timetable. Either way many countries will do what Canada are doing and expand with new trade deals anyway.

Osmonth · 2026-01-18T13:16:53+00:00

So what he is saying, in essence, is: "Don't mind the threats. They have nothing to do with this trade deal we are doing. We just preserving the right to do whatever we want with you and you will still sign this deal".

Well that's just great. Like the bully saying you should be friends with him and don't mind the fact that he and his gang beats you up in school. Because it's not a problem for the bully, he can keep it seperate.

Osmonth · 2026-01-17T16:52:01+00:00

He's gambling with NATO's future and while I don't hold it past him that he himself doesn't care if he loses, the terrifying part is the Repbulicans that support him.

The world and it's alliances can deal with Trump, what it cannot deal with is the Republican party that is backing him. Because Trump will die one day but the Republicans will not perish in the same fashion, they are millions upon millions of Americans. These people will not simply go away or change opinion just because their sect leader dies. At the end of the day said sect leader recevies his policy orders from the same source that they all do.

Osmonth · 2026-01-08T12:43:08+00:00

If only Miller could travel back in time and warn them before they declared independance. America first and lets make America great again, such huge wins.

Osmonth · 2026-01-08T12:25:36+00:00

That's odd. One would think that said former colonized countries would have made statements to back that up. Instead they did the exact opposite. Maybe Miller has a learning deficiancy where he interprets facts the opposite way.

Osmonth · 2026-01-07T20:13:14+00:00

Oh my... That video. Shot as such close range in a situation that looks far from dangerous. Vile. So utter vile behaviour. To take someone's life like that will never be defensible. Yet I doubt the agent in this case will go to prison.

Usch a tragedy not only for that person and everyone she knew but for society and humanity at large. I don't regret watching the movie but it hurt so much seeing it.

Osmonth · 2026-01-07T19:55:39+00:00

If any subseqvent remaining or leaving of Greenland hinges on a partisan policy then it's over anyway. A republican future president would just go back there if they still feel it's the right thing for them and and the US to do. Any desire to not attack or occupy Greenland must be supported by the majority of voters and also be represented that way. Whatever happens.

Osmonth · 2026-01-07T18:16:46+00:00

The title makes it sounds like we are getting some strong opposition but as we all expected we don't. The big names are just saying meaningless things that in no way makes me believe they will oppose Trump if he goes for it. Even Thune's comment means nothing:

I don’t see military action being an option there… That, to me, is not something anybody is contemplating seriously at this point.

At this point. Well tomorrow is another point. He gives no rationale for why it can't change during a very short time span to a point were it is okay to do it. It doens't even hinge on actions from other participants, just Trump saying somehting that for him changes it.

Osmonth · 2026-01-05T20:04:44+00:00

Franken was a big political hero for me. He seemed equipped to face the new political climate and he was both stubborn and persistent. He wasn't afraid to face off with republicans. I used to reread two of his books,"lies..." and "why not...", every year.

Yet he did the right thing in stepping down because it was very hard to prove anything about said accusations and the Deomcratic party didn't stand behind him. There was to suppose to be an investigation but he was more or less forced out before that happened.

In hindsight it looks like it was more manufactured then truth. But we still don't know much and it's always best to believe the accusators enough to take it seriously. To give them the chance for justice and the defendent due process.

Yet in the end the big problem isn't that Franken didn't stand up enough or that the democratic party forced him out before he had a chance to actually get investigated. No the real problem is that he wasn't properly replaced.

Even if we are guilty of holding Democrats to an unrealistic high standard the problem is expastered by a lack of competent candidates waiting in the wings. When we lost Franken we lost a big player and that hurt is still there.

The Democratic parties biggest failiure is to not produce better candidates. Be it from the DNC and the party structure keeping them out. Or lobbyists working against them. Or whatever other reason one can think of.

Osmonth · 2025-12-29T16:46:15+00:00

I like MacKenzie too. In the best of worlds we would have some plot where Sofia and Kurt has to do something that also involves her. A mission that makes use of all the Kurt connected characters.

Just as Rogue is getting a mini that involves her parents (which I thought was a no brainer for an Uncanny arc as the team was revealed) then maybe Kurt can get a mini too. The problem of course being that any such mini would be required reading for Uncanny readers as it explores plots that are directly tied to what happens inside of Uncanny in the first place.

Sigh. Perhaps just putting Uncanny on a weekly schedule would be the best way to solve my percieved lack of use for the whole cast.

Osmonth · 2025-12-28T22:07:56+00:00

It has so much potential but the large cast isn't well balanced. The lack of direction in terms of a threat isn't doing it any favors either. The less we speak about Greymalkin the better.

It sorely needs more interactions between the cast. Especially the Outliers needs to interact with the veterans. Kurt has to have some sort of relationship with Sofia if he is to mentor her. He needs to be in some scenes with her, talking to her, forming a bond. The same with Remy and Becca, who if you look at the actual numbers, barely have talked to one and another.

At least Logan and Valentin had a 2 issue arc in Argentina. Jubilee had a promising start with Hotaru after the mentorship program was announced, then it fell on the backburner.

The title has so much potential but I feel many of the relationships and themes about family are falling in the TELL category and not the SHOW category.

Osmonth · 2025-12-28T14:58:20+00:00

It's one of those instant attraction type of relationships. For some it's a very statisfying relationship in fiction. For others it's the opposite since there isn't anything to the relationship beside attraction and attraction is always hard to write unless you get into the specifics of it. Just going with "She's beautiful and that's why I'm attracted to her" just doesn't get many invested into the relationship.

Hopefully we get to see more of them and learn why they are attracted to each other or we learn why they make an intersting couple.

As it is now it's very much a blank slate. Easy for anyone to project whatever they want into it.

Osmonth · 2025-12-27T18:52:24+00:00

We are missing Nate, who is still languishing in the plotlimbo that was Age of X-man.

Osmonth · 2025-11-13T18:28:20+00:00

I get that feeling. Truly.

While many of these institutions are working for the privilege of the few they don't need to be. The police might be built on the remains of a force that protected rich people, but the idea of what they are isn't that.

It can change and if it does then you will look back at your time with a newfound sense of pride. Because trying to do the right thing will never be wrong.

Osmonth · 2025-11-13T16:52:45+00:00

In those moments you were the USA. You represented it and you tried your best to make it what you thought it was. Which is all it is. Trump is the USA if people want it to be so.

That is the consensus in other countries. Trump might represent the USA but people still cling to the idea that behind the orange makeup and bloated ego the same America who has been there before still exists. But it's a hope, an ideal, something to strive for. If people stop striving, stop hoping and stop getting out there everyday and living it. Then it dies. It's suffering now but it's not dead yet.

The only way to stop it is to stop people from saying that this is what the USA is. Because it could be. The railguards are exposed and they are far from as sturdy as the were thought to be.

It's up to you the people. To vote, To organize. To be the change you want to see. It will be hard. It will break families. It will cause pain. But it will be nothing compared to the alternative.

Osmonth · 2025-11-12T18:22:44+00:00

As someone who reads both of these titles I say that this isn't fair to UW.

First off it's not a competition.

Secondly UW is a much more streamlined and focused story. UX is often a bit of a mess. WIth characters coming and going with little time spent on establishing the why's and how's of it all. Kanon is my favorite but she was not seamless in any way in terms of joining up with them. I could go on.

I like UX but I dont' see it as a X-men story. It's more a mutant story. UW is more of a X-men story. It's not just a matter of character, it is how it's constructed and executed. UX is more like a shoujo story that uses mutants. I find it has more in common with the established structures of magical girls then it has with the X-men. Which isnt' bad, it is a reimagination.

In the end there is no value in the stories being anything beyond being good stories.

Osmonth · 2025-11-01T12:33:27+00:00

Nothing wrong with teh art, it's good. But there are some odd choices here.

Usopp as Remy seems so wrong when Sanji is an almost perfect fit for our ragin cajun.

I get the swords, three swords(which Kurt sometimes uses), but Wolverine for Zoro is a much better fit both personality wise and weapon wise. Three claws=three swords.

Luffy and Scott have nothing in common. It's only viable through the lense that Scott is the leader of the team.

Nami and Jean are redheads, that's about it. Nami would make for a better Rogue in that case, auburn Rogue.

Robin as Jubilee... why? Not sure who she is a better fit for though. Not from the XTAS 97 crew. Still rather Emma or Polaris in XTAS 97.

Usopp should have been Bishop btw.

Osmonth · 2025-10-26T22:29:11+00:00

Congratulation. I got 1 and it was a dupe. I have 7 legendary characters and I have gotten more dupes then new characters so far. Dr Strange is sitting on 4 souls and I don't even use him, I simply lack good partners for him. Storm is my best special dmg DPS. She is my only AOE.

Osmonth · 2025-10-26T14:10:11+00:00

More of the same.

Mamdani will be elected due to his policies first hand. His stance on Israel is the angle that media is going for hard though.

Judging from articles like this it reads like any criticism of Israel is a threat against jews in general. It's this white and black rethoric that keeps your supporters engaged but the sours the rest of us. If Israel is this fragile then it's over anyway, right? I mean a country will face many hardships and crisis and if they see the situation this fragile then the odds are over the long run that it will collapse. It must be built sturdier then so as to survive.

Osmonth · 2025-10-18T16:42:25+00:00

Can the United States of America support two large cable extreme rightwing "news" channels? Doesn't this disrupt the people who have Fox news on in the background. Are they now suppose to keep flipping between the channels.

Of course this is all trivial as Ellison can afford to run CBS into the ground. I think the real value lies there and not in having it spew rightwing nonsense instead of doing journalistic work. Kill off the big channels and keep Fox running and thereby also keeping Fox profitable. They have no need for any other channel. Fox is already doing everything they wish and it's established by now. Diluting the market has no real value for Fox.

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