Recent content by TacticalTea

That's what makes them so successful in all endeavours to this day.

Did the Liberal Party pay you to say that? You know why he made that decision. Yet you present it as if he would never listen to such reports once in office. Disingenuous. He's the leader of the opposition. If there's nothing he can do with a briefing to oppose the government, then the...

Jordan is the Islamic country that's doing the best in the south-eastern Med region. Why so eagerly send it to slaughter? It already has the 2nd highest amount of refugees per capita, after Lebanon. Adding 5 million Palestinians would easily kick that up to #1, increasing the country's...

What's the first question being asked? Will you be joining ansykop?

Given China doesn't have an electorate to satisfy, I doubt they'd go so hard on green projects if they didn't think it mattered.

I wouldn't expect Trump to sit and read these things. It's just not in his personality, neither is it in Justin's. I don't really have a massive problem with it either. Whatever works. I'm more concerned about the results than the internal machinations of government headquarters.

China is also making lots of progress building tons of green alternatives. The takeaway really is, though, that none of what we do matters, as China and others continue to rapidly industrialize, much faster than we can reduce our own emissions. Given the precarity of the American world order...

Do know you the ball park of what he went down with?

Imma live like a pauper for a few years then move south. Don't know where exactly but south. Where the Sun doth shine.

Is this a joke

Has to be repeated again and again. My greatest fear is that Israel doesn't make it to the 22nd century. The US is weakening, its young generations are growing anti-semitic, malicious state actors are emboldening... Here's to hoping the threat of nuclear annihilation scares Iran enough to...

A few points: Egypt is exempt because it chooses to be so. Let's not blame the Arabs for our own failure to govern. For much of its history, the UN was ruled by a majority consisting of democracies. Today, its ruling majority is made up of authoritarian regimes. The purpose of a system is...

In 6 years Russia will have 5 million additional FAMs.

Where there's a will there's a way. I remember my first basic there were tiny girls and boys pushing through by sheer force of will. Basic made them physically stronger, but they came in with the mental fortitude that was more important than anything else.

Reminds me of Iraq. Canada's pompousness at having "accurately predicted" there would be no WMDs in Iraq has always irked me. I know people make fun of Rumsfeld, but unknown unknowns are real. And this is one of those cases where you don't get to err on the side of willful ignorance just...