From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Canada to meet 2% defense spending target as NATO eyes spending
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:33:04 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:29:00 -0000 (UTC), Dhu on Gate wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:19:31 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> On 2025-06-09 10:49 p.m., Auric Hellman wrote:
>>> Carney said the government will invest in new submarines, aircraft,
>>> ships, armed vehicles and artillery
>>>
>>> https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-nato-spending-pledge-carney
>>>
>>>
>>> Say what you will about the man's character, Donald Trump does get results.
>>>
>>>
>> It's a damned shame that it took that jackass to force out PM to do what
>> many of us have wanted for years. We have to accept that part of the
>> reason for NATO and its spending requirements it to support the military
>> industrial complex. I don't think it is any secret that the US expects
>> to the one seller the arms and equipment. We could go a long way to
>> meeting our target by recruiting and training enough soldiers to be able
>> to get boots on the ground in case of a conflict. We could do with more
>> aircraft and navy vessels and should do our best to build them here or
>> to source them from Europeans. We should not be buying fifth generation
>> fighter aircraft from a country whose president has implied they would
>> be dumbed down.
>
> Offensive weapons are a wasted investment: "Lets build shit that will get
> us all killed because NOBODY wins Battles with Yesterday's WunderWaffen".
> Our militaries should be converted to Civil Defense capable of self-defense
> at need. Any additions to our "Defense" Budget should go into high-quality
> STEM Public Education: buys a couple of orders magnitude higher ROI
in *purely* military terms alone.
>
> Dhu
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