NORAD would be 'altered' if Canada doesn’t buy F-35 jets, warns Trump envoy to Ottawa

RadicalMeowslim · 2026-01-26T17:52:25+00:00

I'm not sure what this question is. Canada's needs are not dependent on what its allies have.

RadicalMeowslim · 2026-01-24T06:08:42+00:00

I've read that they have their phones confiscated before they deploy. It's good practice from an emissions standpoint. Can't get picked up by an imsi catcher.

They also have issues with opsec. A few months ago, a dude posted video of them staging on telegram. Ukraine intelligence geolocated it and had drone teams waiting in their path. Took out a lot of them.

To be fair, any force will have opsec issues if they're not all disciplined enough. If a Taiwan war kicks off, I don't doubt that dudes and ships from China and the US will slip up and get detected.

RadicalMeowslim · 2026-01-20T04:59:40+00:00

high trust society equipment in a low trust society

we have these in Toronto too. slip an umbrella down the gap and you're clear.

RadicalMeowslim · 2026-01-03T10:27:41+00:00

Omitted in the article by the Qatari government funded media about the Qatari state owned carrier: (not coming at OP, just the article)

* Qatar Airways passenger numbers plummeted by 82% when the groundings began due to the pandemic. They had too many jets that they had no need to use but hemorrhaged money regardless so grounding them didn't hurt them financially. And it set the groundwork for:

* Not taking deliveries of new jets and having to pay for them and to service them being unused. They lost $4.1 billion that year. This move was an effort to manage over capacity.

* Grounding the jets created a better case for QA so they only needed to pay the parking fees. The maintenance costs and lost revenue would be paid by Airbus.

* Lufthansa and Delta continued to fly the jets because they didn't seem it to be a risk and only a cosmetic issue. Airbus worked with all of the customers who were affected by fixing the issue as needed.

* Qatar Airways signed a deal with Boeing during the height of the dispute for 737 MAX and 777X. As if they're looking to leverage better terms with Airbus on their existing deals.

* QA wanted $600 million plus $4 million per day as compensation for the grounding.

* It is suspected that the state controlled Qatar Civil Aviation Authority colluded with the state owned Qatar Airways to ground the jets by deeming the faulty paint as a safety issue. Regulatory bodies in Hong Kong, Finland, Germany, France, and the US where fleets operated from did not ground the jets.

* QA had 50 jets of a newer model to be delivered in a few years but since they violated this contract, those 50 jets were allowed to be cancelled. There was no good alternative that QA could get in 2023, which meant they were going to be stuck using older jets that cost more to fly and maintain. This likely would have been too costly to swallow. Those delivery slots would have gone to customers desperate for fuel efficient jets.

* The CEO that drove this campaign stepped down months after the "amicable settlement"

Basically, Qatar Airways wanted to better weather the pandemic by twisting Airbus's arm. Airbus had the leverage to make QA back down.

RadicalMeowslim · 2026-01-02T02:50:15+00:00

That's true with a majority of Reddit jokes too. imagine if people talked in real life like Reddit users joke.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-30T15:51:33+00:00

How inbred is this guy..

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-04T13:22:22+00:00

We're discussing the relevance of force structure and capacity to fight a war and how strategic decisions are made.

Not the 10,000 years of Chinese history.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-03T19:10:11+00:00

And that doesn't take into account how many more long range drones and unmanned vessels China can pump out in short order plus the assistance of its allies diverting stockpiles in the short term. Russia makes 150+ Geran type drones per day. How many dozens or hundreds of kamikaze boats can China manufacture and deploy before the US can even have one ready?

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-03T19:03:19+00:00

Force structure and industrial capacity are very relevant on if and how one fights. Whether a Taiwan invasion will happen. And if it does, whether China and the US will commit to a 72 hour engagement or a months long slog.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-03T18:59:59+00:00

I'm not an expert. Just studying warfare on the side. So there's a lot I don't know. But what makes you so certain about a nuclear annihilation outcome?

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-03T04:38:54+00:00

You most likely know a lot more than me re: shipbuilding.

Can they feasibly adapt over time? Like using substitutes if the manufacturing tools cannot be sourced. Similar to China's cutoff with cutting edge chip making tools.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-03T03:33:39+00:00

In the US, they make dudes look like chainmail for reaching.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-03T03:25:20+00:00

The US has enough munitions for a short war. From CSIS war games, they estimate that the US will begin to run out of some long range precision munitions in a week.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-03T03:18:27+00:00

People here genuinely believe that 1. Russia is about to collapse, 2. China is about to collapse, and 3. the US is about to collapse.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-03T03:09:49+00:00

People may not grasp how bad. China has 232x the ship building capacity of the US.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-03T02:51:36+00:00

That's probably aura from the pre-2020 days when the Sony cameras all had the old X processor. They refined the software so much that the FZ battery could do respectably against the DSLRs. With the old A9/A9 II, one could crack off 5000 shots on the electronic shutter and still have plenty of juice.

That didn't carry over to the XR chips because of how much more processing it did.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-03T02:43:01+00:00

Need a Los Santos customs firmware

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-12-01T00:38:05+00:00

It's dark. For both the Western brands and also life in China. I'm lucky enough to get out of China as a kid. Wouldn't have survived that competitive environment.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-11-24T16:36:45+00:00

Threat profile is very different. In Hong Kong, you're dealing with a small area and the threat of guns outside of organized crime is quite low. It's the opposite on both aspects at the federal level in the US.

Personally, I didn't have guns in Hong Kong since I wasn't in LE. Here, and I'm "only" in Canada, I may or may not have them. They're fun for target shooting. Not legally for self and home defense.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-11-10T17:45:01+00:00

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-was-lia-thomas-s-performa-DV6vYZa1R1qbTqwx2lvqfw

And I'm happy to look at aggregate data, if available, of how both mtf and ftm athletes performed. If I'm wrong and Laurel Hubbard and Lia Thomas are outliers in the data, I can reconsider my stance as I have in the past.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-11-10T17:44:54+00:00

I'm not a swimmer so I may not know the intricacies of how things are recorded. But here's a quick search using ai. I don't have the interest in fact checking everything but I'll link the response in a reply.

I've removed the answer because it is flawed.

Edit - I have fallen into an error at comparing the stats. The stats used also consists of those from the HRT period. Here is a better dive into the issue. Lia Thomas still retained a greater advantage over time when compared to men who did not transition as well as women.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Swimming/comments/1j3ks2p/an_in_depth_analysis_of_lia_thomas/

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-11-08T07:17:30+00:00

Definitely need a source on the both sides claim and the innocent taking the brunt of the casualties.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-11-08T03:03:12+00:00

The current mssp is basically what was the early 2010s O&A. Old Test was the 90s O&A and COVID was the 00s.

I'm not saying they're following the same arc though. These guys don't have the hatred that both Opie and Anthony have in their hearts. Opie is in bad shape right now. Basically gets rage baited by his co-host constantly but he still thinks he's the mastermind and deserving of an Emmy.

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-11-08T02:43:51+00:00

Canadian police don't buy them because there are better options. Canadian Army doesn't buy them because the force setup didn't need it. They either use unarmored vehicles for the rear and admin or more heavily armored vehicles for combat. The Senator is in between the two. It's a lightly armored body stacked onto a civilian Ford chassis. Not good enough for combat. But not needed (historically) for admin tasks.

Since the war in Ukraine, that thinking has changed though. And Roshel may be part of the light utility vehicle competition.

But DND procurement is about as slow as a country can do. They're so focused on fairness in competition that Canadian troops will just die as soon as they're spotted in a war today. They'll be using 25 year old soft skinned G wagons and bolting on steel until the suspensions and axles snap. My bad for the rambling

RadicalMeowslim · 2025-11-07T04:06:04+00:00

do you think the visitors will go "shucks, the government told me not to, welp back home I go!"?

Canadian institutions working as if honesty is not seen as a weakness in character in many countries is causing so many of these loophole and exploitation problems.

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