The blast that killed Gen Kirillov happened at the house where I lived before moving to Israel. Apparently, he lived in the next entrance. I still owe the apartment in that house, although I rent it out now. The war literally came to my house.
Not sure how correct that is especially after France fell and the bombs started falling on England, I had 3 uncles that signed up and met countless other vets that all seemed to have one thing in common. They couldn't wait to get over there and kill some Jerry's. Even my grandmother supported her 3 oldest sons going to the fight.
Canada was diverse, even back then. Quebec was so against involvement in the war, Canada jailed the mayor of Montreal basically for the whole war. Many westerners were ready to join the fight, and Mackenzie-King knew how serious the situation was.
Canada gave Britain a billion dollars in 1942. A billion.
Just for fun, using the Bank of Canada inflation calculator that's $17.98 billion of today's dollars.
This GoC release dated October 18th, 2024 claims we have "committed" $19.5 billion. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-...r-ukraine.html
-Have we actually delivered that much? probably not. Committed sounds like a weasel word to me here.
-How are we valuing our equipment? The US example has shown there are different perspectives depending on whether you're trying to inflate the value of your contributions or fit more kit within a budget envelope.
-A GDP adjustment is probably also called for in this case to contextualize the numbers, and I suspect would make our current contributions pale in comparison to those during WWII.
I am in no way arguing we've done enough, just thought I'd add a few more data points to the discussion as I find the $X in Y year discussions interesting, especially when WWII is one of the comparators.
Also - nice to hear from Pointman considering your luck with being in warzones in recent years.
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The billion dollar gift wasn't the only contribution. According to the google machine, Canada's total contribution to Britain during WWII was over $3 billion. This includes loans, gifts, munitions, raw materials etc.
If that war learned us anything, it's that we should have stopped Hitler at the Rhineland and we should have stopped Putin at Crimea.
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Canada was diverse, even back then. Quebec was so against involvement in the war, Canada jailed the mayor of Montreal basically for the whole war. Many westerners were ready to join the fight, and Mackenzie-King knew how serious the situation was.
When has Quebec been for anything other Canadians supported? to bad they couldn't have gotten another 1.1% yes votes in 95, I was pulling for them
The billion dollar gift wasn't the only contribution. According to the google machine, Canada's total contribution to Britain during WWII was over $3 billion. This includes loans, gifts, munitions, raw materials etc.
If that war learned us anything, it's that we should have stopped Hitler at the Rhineland and we should have stopped Putin at Crimea.
I think Obama was a very good president but that was his (and others) biggest blunder.
And even before Rhineland Hitler should have been stopped in early 1935 when he started his violation of the treaty of Versailles and broke international law by building up his military in plain site.
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Canada also now has four times the population it had in 1942.
I also think we stood up the largest military per capita (at least on the Allied side, perhaps the Axis as well) but this is pulled from my brain and my CTE is acting up today
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I also think we stood up the largest military per capita (at least on the Allied side, perhaps the Axis as well) but this is pulled from my brain and my CTE is acting up today
So it seems trigger happy Russia shot down another civilian airliner that killed at least 38 people on Christmas day.
At first the Azerbaijan Airlines flight was thought to have had an oxygen tank explode in the passenger cabin or possibly a mass bird strike but looking at the wreckage a missile strike is far far more likely.
But since it crashed in Kazakhstan, Russian official's will likely blame birds or Ukrainian drones
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So it seems trigger happy Russia shot down another civilian airliner that killed at least 38 people on Christmas day.
At first the Azerbaijan Airlines flight was thought to have had an oxygen tank explode in the passenger cabin or possibly a mass bird strike but looking at the wreckage a missile strike is far far more likely.
But since it crashed in Kazakhstan, Russian official's will likely blame birds or Ukrainian drones
Shrapnel damage on the tail. Russians at it again.
Chechen authorities are saying that they were thwarting a drone attack, but nobody announced that a drone attack was occurring, so that excuse seems really shoddy.
Some other sources are saying that the plane had to divert its flight path due to weather conditions and people on the ground with itchy trigger fingers saw a plane where they didn't expect to and shot at it.
Either way, none of it matters. More innocent people died because of Putin's war. It sounds like it's going to hurt Russia-Azerbaijan relations.
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Ukraine's Air Force reported on a Shahed drone attack overnight. Out of 24 Shahed's launched, 13 were shot down by regular air defense and another 11 were supressed by electronic warfare. https://twitter.com/user/status/1872540298607546613
Support for Ukraine "until it wins" has sharply declined in Western Europe, according to a YouGov poll. In Italy, 55% of respondents favor a negotiated end to the war, while 46% in Spain, 43% in France, and 45% in Germany agree.
Ukrainian SOF uncovered a North Korean soldier's diary detailing a drone tactic: using a soldier as "bait" to lure Ukrainian drones. The "bait" stands still, hoping the drone pauses, allowing others to shoot it down. https://twitter.com/user/status/1872205294169731217
The North Korean standard on that piece of paper is really weird. It's a wolf, wearing a corset made of belts (to attain the unreasonable Korean beauty standard, for wolves).
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The North Korean standard on that piece of paper is really weird. It's a wolf, wearing a corset made of belts (to attain the unreasonable Korean beauty standard, for wolves).
Yeah, IMO these guys were written off as soon as they departed. Maybe he's hoping one or two survive to come back and train the others that he still has. But that's looking unlikely, they seem to be very, very bad at modern combat.
There’s no way they let these guys talk with North Koreans…. They aren’t “going back”.
