I’m particularly fond of the Gripen. Just an opinion, but personally I hope we get our hands on those. But regardless, even if we get the best available fighter in the world, without the numbers, and the maintenance infrastructure, budget, resource and training to support them, it wouldn’t matter anyways

Damn. As a die hard Sync for Reddit fan for years, donated lifetime license and having recently come back to Sync for Lemmy and feeling like it was a long lost friend, really really sad and heartbreaking to hear this.

It might be a single line to fix, but there’s a deployment and publishing pipeline that we don’t necessarily know how it works… not saying it’s impossible, just saying that it’s slightly more involved than just a single line

Who will our insurgents comprise of? (Honest question). Aside from a small percentage of the population that has had weapons training (active and reserve military, police force, hunters) the vast majority have never touched a weapon before…

I hate to say it, but I don’t actually think they would (I might be wrong)… For a country like the UK to jump in, it needs its population to be in support. If it jumps into an armed conflict without the support of its population, it will have its own revolution to deal with.

I think we’ll see a similar, albeit more committed version of the type of response Ukraine received… Military equipment aid, sanctions against US, humanitarian aid.

The same goes with NATO Article 5… US makes up the majority of NATO funding contributions, and European countries have to contend with a continuously brazen Putin… With US threatening to pull away from NATO, it would be countries like Poland and Germany that will step up against Russia, so no capacity to support Canada…

I really really really hope I’m wrong.

It fucking sucks all around.

He doesn’t care about his American cars… he just greenlit a $1T Japanese manufacturing partnership, which includes Toyota, while Ford CEO says it blows a hole in US automotive sector…

Finding a non-US version of this was harder than it needed to be… https://asiatimes.com/2025/02/japan-goes-for-broke-with-1-trillion-trump-bet/

He sabotaged NA automotive, while inviting foreign automotive over.

And as such is how the beat goes, decade after decade. It will never change, it has been a rinse and repeat for ages, both at the federal and provincial levels.

My personal top 3:

• insurance
• subscriptions
• Google and similar data hungry companies (while not a financial scam but moreso a privacy scam, companies like Google and Meta profiteering on our personal data without our knowledge or awareness)