Comments by "Abraham Dozer" (@abrahamdozer6273) on "CBC News" channel.

  1. That culture of "training up" in the Canadian army that empowers the infantryman goes back more than a hundred years. In the preparation for the storming of Vimy Ridge in early 1917, Privates were "trained up" to replace Corporals, Corporals to replace Sargeants, Sargeants to replace Lieutenants as the battle progressed and things rapidly changed. It sounds like an obvious thing to do in the 21st century but back then, it was revolutionary (and widely doubted) within the Imperial British forces .. and apparently it still is in the Soviet remnant army. It's totally Canadian.
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  2. Viva Mexico! Muchas gracias, muchachos!
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  3.  @dohope4554  Again, back to Vimy. Ordinary Privates were all issued maps to orient themselves (It worked, too) . This was not done! The British Army didn't think that the lower classes could possibly understand or read maps and it wasn't done anywhere else in the Imperial Army. Here we are a century later and Russian soldiers don't know where they are.
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  4. Every decade or so, the Grits relearn the old lesson: "Beware of hubris".
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  5. Is political correctness the criterion that is used to weed out books?
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  6. This is an excellent reason to boycott : 'WEEE PUNISH!!" Our civilization has been here before ... in and around 1933. (Maybe, the Chinese will arrest athletes from the boycotting countries for invented infractions?)
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  7. I remember when the Russians rolled into Prague in their tanks back in 1968, they called it "fraternal assistance"
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  8. Canada's sovereignty over the Northwest Passage is threatened on all sides. The United States has made it clear that they consider the Canadian Northwest Passage routes to be international waterways that they intend to patrol (They have virtually no capacity to do so, however). The British are following the United States demands (again, all hat, no cattle). The Russians however are perfectly capable of cruising back and forth through the center of Canada right now. The Chinese want a capability to do the same and the American doctrine invites them in and every other interested party.
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  9. "Almost Justin Time"
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  10. I hope that the authorities continue to push the lot of them back to Alberta where they're respected and wanted.
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  11. There aren't "Russian advances" there. They are no longer advancing therefore they are stalled
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  12. Take them up to the new Arctic naval base in Nanisivik that was started isn't getting built because ... well ... "There aren't any votes in that!"
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  13. Canada need to get our Latvia deployment up to brigade strength ASAP. Start moving those Leopard 2 tanks, etc. today and get real equipment into theatre. It won't be possible to do so if the shooting starts. The next level of this conflict will be "come as you are" not "let's wait and see what happens next and we'll talk about it then".
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  14. The troops get them to the tarmac just to have some cement-headed Immigration Bot stop the because their paperwork isn't in order.
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  15. Generation after generation, these Russian diplomats remain a parody of themselves. The Soviet Union is long gone but the same old. same old, Pravda player piano plays on. It is tiresome and predictable.
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  16. This is a good test of the NATO alliance to see who is "in" and who is essentially "out". Assigning some sort of leadership role to France and Germany in this alliance and any EU army that is planned might now be seen as a strategic mistake. Better to find that out now than when Russia might attack a NATO ally in say, the Baltic countries or Poland.
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  17. "After COP26, what should Canada's next steps be?" Prepare for the inundation of climate refugees from drowned coastlines around the World?
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  18. Isn't it ridiculous? So many have so little of importance to do with their lives other than harassing Royals?
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  19.  @jptrainor  It sure doesn't look that way, Komrade.
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  20. Justin is working INCREDIBLY hard and it's all such a big surprise to him. If this had been any other category of refugee, they would have had them out by the thousands by now but due to Justin's Party's historic antipathy to anything military, it's all such a big face-palm surprise.
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  21. So they should. We don't need this festering threat to our democracy attacking us again and again.
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  22. "Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers but please do something tangible for us. We're dying over here" says Zelenskiyy.
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  23.  @adenadrianamontreal2633  I'm not sure about that but it is a very smart but chronically unsupported military. Canada has high quality soldiers, sailors, airmen in spite of her political leadership. It's worse now than it has been since the Chretien years.
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  24.  @kijijiuser1784  I guess that you're yet another Russian troll. It's not working, anymore. Nobody believes you outside of Russia.
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  25. Kenny is politically toast both Provincially and Federally so who gives a shyte what he says.
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  26. Canada is still ticking away in peacetime mode with a capable but way too small military. It's 1933 again and the Canadian people will continue to snooze right up until 1939 ... again.
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  27. 11 drones ... for the World's second largest country ... they'll disappear into Canadian geography.
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  28.  @HemiJB91  ... cause that's where most Canadians live. You'd rather have the minority dictating to the majority? That's a democracy?
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  29. This state of affairs will never change. A third of Americans are literally ready to take up arms to protect their constitutional right to bear them. These horrors will remain a permanent feature of the landscape.
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  30. "The Bear" is a worn out, moth eaten, motley old bruin. It's time to break it up.
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  31. Americans do ... this whole insurrection comes from there.
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  32. Canadians are cheering from coast to coast!
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  33. We have little military hardware to spare but what Canada can do and has already done to great effect in this war is train up Ukrainian soldiers to modern NATO standards. Maybe we can only send 4 Leopards at this time but we could be training up Ukrainian soldiers in their operation tomorrow iat CFB Shilo. (The climate conditions there are even the same as in Ukraine!)
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  34. @Caleb Newman92 ... not a NATO publicity stunt. There are a million and a half Ukrainians in Canada and it's partly about votes in Canada.
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  35. ... and remove all authoritarians DEMANDING that we remove all restrictions against the will of the people to have them.
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  36. He always looks that way (hint, hint)
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  37. ... another pathetic Russian troll spouting gibberish ...
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  38. One of the big issues we have is that Canadians can't seem to grasp that we have to defend ourselves.
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  39. What do you consider to be real news? Enlighten us, oh wise one.
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  40.  @Rungr  Ontario has a Conservative government. This is about restrictions in Ontario, I know, it's sooo confusing!
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  41. Do you think that there is ANYONE in Russia that is going to tell you the truth about anything, ever?
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  42. I would say that they likely are.
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  43. You too, Beijing
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  44. The Army has great big trucks in nearby places like Petawawa, Borden, Meaford that can handle LAV 4 s and Leopard II tanks. They'll shift those "big rigs" into the lockups like they're Tonka Toys.
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  45.  @dougcoombes8497  A brilliant young science educated officer named Andrew McNaughton pioneered counterbattery work using flash detection and acoustic ranging gathering data over weeks before the battle to locate the German guns opposite them. His counterbatterry artillery took out 85% of the German guns in front of the soldiers at the very moment that the assaults bagan. Science in battle was another Canadian innovation at Vimy. (The battle was won the very day that the Americans finally declared war)
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  46. Canada is just completing a class of 6 (very large) Arctic patrol ships for the Navy at the Irving shipyard in Halifax. Two are commissioned, two more are being finished on the water and two more are being completed in the assembly area on land. After two extra ones are completed for the Coast Guard, they will start on the 15 ship Frigate production. The Seaspan shipyard in Vancouver is building two large supply ships for the Navy as well as several Coast Guard ships at the same time. The other Canadian yard with the ability to build warships, Davie in Quebec City was shut out of the bidding for a long time but is able to again. They are re-furbishing and building ships for the Coast Guard They don't have warship orders (yet) They were the yard that converted a container ship to a supply ship although some of the assembly was done in Finland. I'm guessing that they will end up building sub-components for the Frigates before this is all over.
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  47. Garneau was a Captain in the Navy (a high rank in the Navy) and an RMC grad. They didn't seem interested in that. Not sunny enough ways, I guess.
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  48. So, how to you plan for something that we've never experienced before? They are being really scientific by changing their model as new evidence comes along. Science is a process, not carved in granite so it is in fact very scientific of them.
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  49. Oh, great. Bring back Trump so that you can leave NATO and join up with your Russian genius, instead.
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  50. That horse left the barn decades ago. We are involved because we are involved. No turning back until everyone is safely out.
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