We need NATO to continue to do the job that the EU thinks that it can do but, can’t.

i/ But the EU is European – surely it would not be in the interests of Canada and the US to be involved with a European-based military force.
ii/ NATO is not governed by the EU; in fact it seems to trail behind US actions and even then not all of (European) NATO take notice. Lets face it, both the EU and NATO seem to be clubs that the membership (mostly) decide to take what action suits them best and s0d the rest.
iii/ Not even sure NATO does the job it thinks it can do. Wasn’t it NATO in Afghanistan – and look at that mess as we pull out.

NATO might be based around defence of countries in and around the North Atlantic (ha – let the US West coast defend itself!), but it is more likely described as some sort of mutual arms club where the members are able to train with each other in different climates and swagger around pretending to be the worlds policemen; but when one member has troubles (coff, hack, snort, Falklands) the barriers go up and you are left to sort it out yourself….

Why stop at Whales etc for food?.

Um, hollow them out for accommodation?

Could say the same about the elderly, why go to all the cost of keeping them in a care home, when they could be put to sleep, and then fed as animal food, because that’s how many are treated in many of those places, animals.

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Well, at least he went down fighting, guns blazing, Rambo-style, just like the NRA would be proud of.

Oh, wait…

Making the sort of comments you did made it look like you were taking the whole thing a little too seriously…

(Psst…he is an American and apparently ex military: he is probably trying to hide something…;o)

If a whale is all they say they are (and I’m not saying they’re not) then is not the harvesting of a whale by “indigenous natives” (btw: isn’t that a redundancy?) as bad as one taken by Japan?

Harvesting is an emotive word; it implies gathering huge amounts of a product (ie wheat, or corn) with an aim in mind – in this case (if you believe the Japanese) they were purely harvesting whales for research (seemingly to see if they can comeback after having a proportion of their number killed for research) and then, very magnanimously, providing the carcass – processed, would you believe – to the Japanese people to eat. Whereas your natives might take one or two whales a season per village (being generous on numbers) the Japanese take 850±10% Minke whales and 50 fin whales a season – that is very much an industrial scale compared to what the native population take.

The same could be said of cows, sheep, birds, dogs, and other animals that humans eat.

Show us, please, the cows, sheep, birds, dogs, etc which are eaten by humans and which are on the verge of extinction.
The Japanese research, for all my jokes, seems not to provide any detail about the lives of whale except that they can be caught and processed for consumption in relatively vast numbers, whereas some species of pig and sheep are kept alive by the very fact that they are bred to be eaten.