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 17:06:58 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:09:35 -0700, % wrote:
> 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: buy's a couple of orders magnitude higher ROI.
>>
>> Dhu
>>
> if you don't like our great war machine moved to a country that has one
> you like
No. I just don' want my taxes wasted on Yesterday's WunderWaffen; which
appears to be the aim of our current Branch Plant Manager Carney.
Dhu
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