From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Canada to meet 2% defense spending target as NATO eyes spending
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 03:43:48 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:52:52 -0700, % wrote:
> Dhu on Gate wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Je suis Canadien:
>> Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais,
>> C'est une esp`ece de sauvage.
>> Ne obliviscaris: vix ea nostra voco!
>>
>> *A mari ad mari ad mari*
>>
>> Duncan Patton a Campbell
>>
> native canadians don't pay taxes
Genetically I qualify as Metis. Not according to the Tax-man.
Dhu
--
Je suis Canadien:
Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais,
C'est une esp`ece de sauvage.
Ne obliviscaris: vix ea nostra voco!
*A mari ad mari ad mari*
Duncan Patton a Campbell