The Lions
Politics • Culture • Education
A group of friends with mostly centrist or conservative viewpoints who share resources and ideas about the governance of Alberta and Canada and about world events and trends.
Interested? Want to learn more about the community?

Learn more first
December 21, 2025

The Venezuelan Drone Crisis

Worth a glance!
The administration is presenting the buildup around Venezuela as an expanded counternarcotics campaign. That explanation doesn’t hold water.

We do not fly F-35s to Puerto Rico for cocaine skiffs. We do not send a carrier strike group to the Caribbean for routine interdiction. We do not move an Amphibious Ready Group with an embarked Marine Expeditionary Unit for drug runners. Traditional counterdrug operations lean on Coast Guard cutters and patrol aircraft that find, track, and vector law enforcement onto small boats.

The force package tells you what planners are worried about. An ARG/MEU is what you deploy when you want Marines available for rapid ashore operations. Fifth-generation fighters are what you deploy when y

https://medium.com/@mcnai002/the-venezuelan-drone-crisis-313dad18497d

Interested? Want to learn more about the community?

Learn more first
What else you may like…
Posts
19 hours ago

That version of history explains everything.
It explains the housing crisis. It explains the energy restrictions. It explains the immigration pressure. It explains the economic stagnation. It explains why a sitting Deputy Prime Minister stood in front of graduates at an American university and asked, out loud, whether capitalist democracy still works.
None of what is happening to Canada is an accident.

The Present Is the Evidence
To understand how Canada arrived at this moment, you first have to look honestly at what is happening right now.
Across Canadian media and social media, a coordinated narrative has been building around what is being called the problem of empty bedrooms. On the surface it sounds like a housing conversation. Look closer and it is something else entirely. The pressure being applied, particularly on elderly Canadians and grandparents who have lived in their homes for decades, is to downsize. To give up their multi-bedroom homes. To turn their large homes into apartment blocks. ...

post photo preview
November 05, 2026

Nenshi should step down, fined, be taken to court for dereliction of duty or be removed from current leadership role due to breach of authority while in a position of power, poor memory & proved blatant deceit causing destruction & financial burden unnecessarily …. The records prove it & clarify it! His two in command should not be absolved either for not going to council when Nenshi did not! Calgarians should not be left with the costing when it should have been unnecessary! It’s called Accountability…..

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1HnjUFCEQi/?

post photo preview
November 05, 2026

Well said, Carney is bad news!

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DwhCqpwYY/?

post photo preview
Available on mobile and TV devices
google store google store app store app store
google store google store app tv store app tv store amazon store amazon store roku store roku store
Powered by Locals