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  • King Charles Is Rooting for Canada. You Just Didn’t Notice.

    03/22/2025 5:23:54 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 23 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | March 21, 2025 | Max Colchester and Paul Vieira
    The King of Canada wants President Trump to back off. Just don’t expect him to actually say that publicly. Britain’s King Charles III, who is also Canada’s head of state, is wrestling with an unprecedented diplomatic headache. The monarch wants to stand up for the largest country in his realm as Trump talks about turning it into the 51st U.S. state. At the same time he has to honor the British government’s desire that he keep Trump, who deeply admires the royal family, sweet. The result has been a master class in passive-aggressive pageantry from Buckingham Palace. Earlier this month,...
  • Alarm Grows Over Weakened Militaries and Empty Arsenals in Europe

    12/12/2023 10:19:52 AM PST · by Ultra Sonic 007 · 45 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | December 11, 2023 | Max Colchester, David Lunow, and Bojan Pancevski
    The British military—the leading U.S. military ally and Europe’s biggest defense spender—has only around 150 deployable tanks and perhaps a dozen serviceable long-range artillery pieces. So bare was the cupboard that last year the British military considered sourcing multiple rocket launchers from museums to upgrade and donate to Ukraine, an idea that was dropped. France, the next biggest spender, has fewer than 90 heavy artillery pieces, equivalent to what Russia loses roughly every month on the Ukraine battlefield. Denmark has no heavy artillery, submarines or air-defense systems. Germany’s army has enough ammunition for two days of battle.