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Originally Posted by TKB
I wish Canada would follow suite in regards to rearming the military.
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Right now today, we'd literally be handicapping our soldiers if this situation was more of a shooting war for Canada with our complacency and our military spending.
Nations in Europe are going to pay a price for not spending on their military. We have a military that would go in and fail in a modern battlefield against a large nation state. Even as we comment on the struggles of the Russians. If this was a NATO nation being attacked and we send troops over to help defend that nation, we would be failing the men and woman in uniform.
We all thought major conflict wouldn't return. We didn't need to spend because we'd be running around doing small regional conflicts against non nation enemies with light arms and road side bombs. Or weakened nations in conflict against a ethnic minority.
That opinion should have changed about 4 days ago, and our esteemed defense minister should be huddling up with the actual commanders of the armed forces and not the bureaucrats and clock punchers and asking the question, what do we need in the worst case scenario? If we had to send planes or ships or troops to a Nato country to rebuff an invasion by Russia. Or we need to send ships and subs to the sea of china to help defend Taiwan.
We don't need to have a big military. But we need one that's properly equipped and trained so we can actual help and not hinder, and our military can actually survive.