Fun fact: Jesus is a prophet in Islam and appears many times in the Quran.

You may want to check that link.

Phew, I’m glad at least one person got it.

Killing for religion is something I don’t understand.

Containing China is the primary military objective of the US at the moment (other than defending domestic territory): https://www.csis.org/analysis/2026-national-defense-strategy-numbers-radical-changes-moderate-changes-and-some#h2-priorities-homeland-defense-then-deterring-china

Their forces currently deployed to the ME are nowhere near half of what they have in total.

Thanks. Would they take advantage of US distraction to move against TW? I doubt it - the US can easily fight another war on another front.

Paywalled - I can only see the first sentence.

I would call a reduction of $191M in annual funding a cut.

It was a one-off bonus. If you win the lottery one year and not the next, it would be absurd to complain that you’ve lost income. https://www.thewirereport.ca/2026/03/02/liberals-discontinue-temporary-funding-supports-for-cbc/

I’m not sure it’s fair to call this a cut - they just didn’t repeat last year’s temporary funding boost, which was explicitly framed as being temporary. CBC’s funding is almost exactly what it was 2 years ago.

Edit to add numbers for the 90% of people who won’t read the article:

• 2026-27: $1,383,252,311
• 2025-26: $1,425,237,411 (later rose to $1,575,237,411)
• 2024-25: $1,383,237,411 (later rose to $1,425,237,411)
• 2023-24: $1,287,169,435 (no subsequent expenditures)
• 2022-23: $1,266,123,241 (later rose to $1,287,123,241)
• 2021-22: $1,229,423,241 (later rose to $1,250,423,241)
• 2020-21: $1,210,797,846 (later rose to $1,247,497,846)

TBH Grok would probably tell them to avoid “femoids” and work on semen retention to activate their redpill powers.

Go bring that sarcasm to Ukrainians - I’m sure they’ll love it.

OK then, but that’s still idiotic.

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.

That’s fine, they can survive on the large domestic market thanks to protectionist tariffs, and Americans can enjoy their very own Trabant equivalents

An industrial base generates a future yield too.