Xi Jinping was General Secretary of the CCP and Chairman of the Central Military Commission. This made Xi basically the dictator of China. He rose to power on an anti-corruption platform and used it to get rid of all his rivals. Recent poor health and bad policies has led to a quite overthrow and the …
Zelenskyy obtained a law degree but pursued a career in entertainment. He announced his candidacy in 2019 and won the presidential election in a landslide victory. The first acts of his government were to remove immunity for members of parliament and to crack down on corruption. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Zelenskyy …
Mark Carney is Canada’s new Prime Minister in 2025 and comes with a strong banking background. Raised in Edmonton Alberta went on to get his doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford. Started working for Goldman Sachs before joining the Bank of Canada as a deputy governor in 2003. Went on to to become …
The present World Order was established after WW2 with the Marshall Plan. The United States wanted a secure and free Europe. To make sure that the Communists did not spread into the weakened economic and social fabric of Europe. The US poured in resources to shore up Europe. The US did not want European countries …
Ukraine is fighting a new type of conflict. Every move on the battlefield is seen with electronic surveillance and satellites in real time with drones everywhere and being used by both sides. The Western alliance wanted Ukraine to push in a major assault. Surprise is no longer possible and open fields are death traps to …
Crimea was annexed from Ukraine by Russia in 2014. The reason given for this by Russia was to protect Russians who made up about 60% of the population (mostly do to a large Russian naval base in Sevastopol on Crimea’s SW coast). Since the annexation Russia has moved into Crimea about a million Russians who …
World Order and what does it really mean? United States has ever since World War 2 controlled either militarily or economically the development of the third world. Things like the World Bank etc. are not serving the needs of the 3rd World but as a way to control the policies set down by First World …
Canada needs to spend more on its military, this goes without saying. However, few Canadians know just how bad the situation is. Why have we not supported Ukraine with more lethal weapons? We do not have them in our inventory. A quick rundown of weapons and resources we just do not have in any numbers …
Putin vs. Ukraine will be a war of attrition, with Russia having more hardware, but its ground forces not wanting to fight. While Ukraine lacks hardware, but its ground forces are willing to dig in and repel the invader. Consider the reality is in war that you need three times the troops to attack and …
Canada has a problem with its doctrine of how to best use what little resources it has for its military. Canada believes in a token force to keep its military capable of expanding only when needed. The main problem of only maintaining a token force is that when needed it has to expand rapidly and …