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CANADA
SUBMARINE FLEET NEEDS
1LUXVOX: CANADA'S NEXT SUBMARINE: Spain Answers the Call
SUBMARINE FLEET NEEDS
1LUXVOX: CANADA'S NEXT SUBMARINE: Spain Answers the Call
Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD8fSQmkHR4
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Navantia’s Isaac Peral S-80 class submarine is Spain’s answers to Canada’s call to renew and expand its submarine fleet under the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project or (CPSP) As this report shows, Navantia permitted extensive access to its submarine assembly facilities and their state-of-the-art training facilities.
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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
The USA spends an enormous amount of money on its military. Whether the USA gets 'value for money' from this vast expenditure is doubtful.
The USA is a very expensive place to operate. There was a time when the USA was very expensive but also very productive. I saw this first hand when I visited Canada and the United States as a student in the summer of 1961. I visit almost all the steel mills in Canada and the United States and was shown the industries cutting edge equipment and processes. Subsequently I joined Davy-United in the UK, a British steel mill equipment manufacturer and got to visit and work with many steel companies outside the USA and see how far behind they were and in need of massive modernisation. The British company I joined manufactured some of its products under license from the USA ... and during the 1960s was exporting to countries all over the world (except the USA which had business alignment with our company)
80 years after the end of WWII it has become apparent tht the US is way more expensive that the rest of the world. While this was offset by high productivity in the early post war years, this changed over time and especially was impacted by the OPEC oil shock of 1973. The result of this oil shock was that much of the US economy was instantly uneconomic relative to more energy efficient countries ... much of Europe, much of Asia and much of South America!
The US economy changed substantially after the oil shock, and low cost imported goods replaced much of the US's high cost domestic production. US productivity did not improve ... but the switch to imported essential goods made the US 'profitable' again. This solved the profit problem faced by owners and investors but at the expense of workers and everyone else. Reagan and Republicans embraced this American industiral reorganisation in the early 1980s and this core economic framing of the USA cintinues to the present time.
Meanwhile ... the world economy has changed substantially from the 1980s to the present time (2025). Much of the world can now produce most everything the world needs without any input from the US economy. Trump and a surprisingly large number of Americans do not have any idea what this is going to mean for the USA in the very near future. Trump seems to think he can turn back the closk ... but he cannot. Worse ... Trump thinking and action is likely to accelerate a terminal decline for the USA! Sad!
While the USA under Trump is heading for social and economic disaster, Canada is positioning itself to remain prosperous and consequential. The USA has a lot of military hardware, but its allies are like Canada are getting more capable quite rapidly and 'trust' in the USA has declined dramatically.
Bottom line ... Trump has weakened the USA dramatically in the last six months. The rest of NATO and many other important countries around the world are strengthening themselves militarily and economically essentially in defiance of Trump's United States.
This is very sad ... but not at all surprising when a country elects someone like Donald Trumpand and his enablers!
Peter Burgess