Carney is awesome. This is finally the kind of support we should have always been giving Ukraine. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2026/02/government-of-canada-reaffirms-unwavering-support-for-ukraine-four-years-into-russias-full-scale-invasion.html

What I mean is that these pinprick strikes don't move the Russians. Better to stockpile a bit and unleash a real terror wave

I worry when Ukraine does stuff like this. Better to delay a month and get a much larger strike. Firing 3 is not going to scare Russia. Fire 10 and the Russians have to rethink some air defence positions.

This is an absolutely fantastic piece on the intelligence work by MI6 and the CIA in the lead up to the invasion: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/a-war-foretold-cia-mi6-putin-ukraine-plans-russia

Forget the drone. The UGVs are the real stars. Among many reasons why the CAF thinks the Gripen push is dumb is because it takes away resources that we need to accelerate automation which is our 2030s priority.

I want the Northern Route. To avoid NIMBYs, have a shorter route and to permanently rule out diversions to places like Kingston. And we will get people in Kingston hating the NIMBYs around them for a long time. Win-Win.

Strongly recommend Perun's video on this. And it mentions a number of developments that I don't think are much discussed in open source. Everybody talks about Starlink. Not much talk about Starshield. This is the land version of "F-22s got beaten by ... ". It's a gimped exercise where...

As I said, I don't buy the threat as substantial. But I can appreciate that you might have a different interpretation.

I honestly believe that Canadians are mostly talk and care about jobs than anything else.

The government cares about jobs and spending in the economy. Not about where profits go.

Company ownership is not in the strategy. Workshare and IP ownership are. So LMC building the CMS330 and selling it from Canada will be seen as Canadian.

Trump Administration has decided that having a well educated military is pointless apparently.

Disavow means nothing. Congress would have to impeach him.

The military is expressly forbidden by law from getting involved at home. And most military personnel would have ethical objections to doing so anyway. The military ousting an elected leader is something that would make anybody who grew up in a democratic society extremely uncomfortable. Even...

Nah. I want the centrist parties favoured. Coddling the extremists and enabling them is how we got here in so much of the world. Anybody who wants to upend society should face substantial obstacles and a high bar to do so.