"Diversity Goals" or a shortage of willing dupes?

The REALITY OF WAR for the ‘boots on the ground': “You Grow Up Wanting to be Luke Skywalker, Then Realize You’ve Become a Stormtrooper for the Empire” Millennium Report

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Update Sept. 16 - Global News Exclusive
Trudeau Liberals leave $372M meant to help veterans unspent since taking office
The news comes seven months after an Edmonton town hall at which Trudeau publicly admonished some veterans groups fighting the government for improved benefits, saying they were “asking for more than we are able to give right now.”​

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Canada's Armed Forces:

"Diversity Goals" or a shortage of willing dupes?

Could it be that war is no longer sexy?

GlobalNews:
Canada’s Armed Forces, struggling to hit diversity goals, turns to new digital recruiting tools

• ... in an attempt to to boost numbers that appear to have been largely stalled for more than three years, the Department of National Defence (DND) will launch a suite of new digital tools — including a smartphone app that, in its functionality, will resemble the matchmaking app Tinder — aimed at convincing more Canadians to consider a life in the Armed Forces.

Why? Because Iraq "needs" their assistance.

​NationalNewsWatch:

• The Canadian military is drawing up options to extend its mission in Iraq even as growing political instability and competing foreign interests threaten to plunge the country into yet another cycle of bloody violence...
• Brig.-Gen. Colin Keiver, the commander of Joint Task Force-Iraq, said the Iraqi government will continue to rely on Canada and other international partners for the foreseeable future despite the Islamic State's defeat last year.
• "They recognize they need continued assistance in order to ensure security and work on stability and prosperity in Iraq," Keiver said on a call with reporters on Friday.

As if the Iraqis actually have a choice now that the West has destroyed everything but the coveted oilfields.

Here's Iraq's real story:

• Violent protests have also erupted in recent weeks over the slow pace of reconstruction and rampant government corruption and many Iraqis are angry at the lack of economic opportunity and development within the country.

So who benefits from the oil profits? If you have to ask you've been in a coma. It's also the answer to why Iran is vilified; Iran has used its oil profits to improve the lives of its citizens -- but the US has opted to put the kibosh on that, and Bloomberg says there's little China can do to help:

• Europeans flee, rial sinks, protests rise — and U.S. sanctions haven’t even hit yet.

Guess who had and still has an interest in controlling Iran's oil profits: Israel, Saudi Arabia, the US.

HuffPost:

• Beyond the personal interests of the states mentioned above, a JCPOA failure will serve to diminish the pragmatic minds in Tehran and Washington that negotiated it and bolster the voices of the more polarized camps on both sides that prefer a hostile U.S.-Iran relationship. The hardline opponents of the JCPOA in the U.S. Congress, Israel and Saudi Arabia will gain legitimacy and boost their respective standings. In Iran, mistrust of the U.S. will be reaffirmed in the once-hopeful masses and opportunities for further dialogue will disappear.

The same was inflicted on Iraq, and the Iraqi people became dependent on the UN Oil for Food program, which soon became a feeding trough for the so-called good guys in the UN.

It's pretty common knowledge now that Daesh, or whatever they choose to call it, is funded by the very entities claiming to be fighting it.  Here's something you may consider boycotting:

US, European consumers inadvertently helping fund Daesh in Afghanistan by buying baby powder: report

• "Unwitting American and European consumers are inadvertently helping fund extremist groups in Afghanistan," Nick Donovan, Campaign Director at Global Witness, said in a statement, calling for stronger checks on imports.

Canada pretends it's training and supporting Iraqis so that it can stay in the game with the bigger boys, and hoping the US will buy the goop they're dredging up out of the tar sands, while playfighting with the Saudis, yet hoping we can still sell them war vehicles.

TorontoStar:

• When Global Affairs Canada announced another aid package to war-torn Yemen in January, it boasted that Ottawa had given a total of $65 million to help ease what the United Nations has called “the worst man-made humanitarian crisis of our time.”
• What Justin Trudeau’s government did not mention in its news release is that since 2015, Canada has also approved more than $284 million in exports of Canadian weapons and military goods to the countries bombing Yemen.

Who could have imagined that the "Boyfriend" has an evil twin?

It's all very complicated, like a movie plot that nobody gets until the last horrible second.

Here's what our young men and women need to be doing: singing in the streets -- like in the good old days when the "Left" actually protested against war: "I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield down by the riverside ... Ain't gonna study war no more"