If so, that’s an idiotic strategy. It would be like Palestinians suicide-bombing EU countries to make them stop Israel’s war.

I think mostly selling Rafales, but I’m not French so I can’t speak to their motivations when choosing who to vote for.

Many on the left are under the misapprehension that being a pacifist must mean being defenceless.

Are you suggesting they simply ignore the defence treaties they signed with allies? Who do you think they are, Russia?

What exactly would they be defending? France is out of range.

I see the geopolitics understanders have logged on…

The carrier is there strictly in a defensive posture. no? I’m not aware of France being involved in any attacks on Iran.

They don’t either, so you’re in good company.

Oh, in that case I agree completely - the root cause is demand in the US.

Do you think the Mexican government isn’t already trying to do that? They clearly don’t have the resources to pull it off.

Sacrificing their only remaining ME ally is definitely not worth a transient distraction in the news. Losing Syria was a huge blow for them.

Agreed, this US attack on Iran is not going to happen. The best guarantee of this is that Russia won’t want it to.

It sounds like someone blowing a raspberry. The terrible name notwithstanding, I hope Carney can pull this off. I found him a bit disappointing in his first quasi-year in office but this would really deliver on his promise of Canada being a leader of the middle powers.

That’s why oligarch-owned media are so important.

“anything I don’t like is treason”

For some reason a lot of y’all wanna bend over backwards to defend this shit.

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Pray tell, what would these dumbfucks even know about science that it’s worth leaking?

It’s unlikely that these dorks are leaking military info (and why would the US even care?), but they should definitely be investigated. I think the real question is whether the US are using “force or violence”, which would fall under C) and A)

Criminal charges are federal in Canada, but charges are laid by crown prosecutors in that particular province (never by the government itself)

I don’t think this actually meets the definition of treason, as they aren’t using violence and are going the legislative/referendum route: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-46.html

2. Every one commits treason who, in Canada,

a) uses force or violence for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Canada or a province;

b) without lawful authority, communicates or makes available to an agent of a state other than Canada, military or scientific information or any sketch, plan, model, article, note or document of a military or scientific character that he knows or ought to know may be used by that state for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or defence of Canada;

c) conspires with any person to commit high treason or to do anything mentioned in paragraph (a);

d) forms an intention to do anything that is high treason or that is mentioned in paragraph (a) and manifests that intention by an overt act; or

e) conspires with any person to do anything mentioned in paragraph (b) or forms an intention to do anything mentioned in paragraph (b) and manifests that intention by an overt act.

There are a lot of countries willing to mock them on their military might

This is just people memeing on them for their lackluster performance in WWII. Say what you will about that, but they certainly learned their lesson - since then they’ve been a military powerhouse, frankly the only European country that consistently pulls its weight in that respect. If other EU countries were Gaullist their combined military would outclass the US.

And that’s not even getting into their “nuke first, ask quesitons later” policy.

Found Captain Janeway’s Lemmy account

Tuvix? Was it created by a transporter accident and will be murdered separated into two distinct apps?