After seeing the effectiveness of drone defenses in Ukraine, I am absolutely convinced that the primary military spending that Canada should engage on should be a fully domestic drone defense system. Canada needs force multiplication and has a huge area. Homegrown allows us to potentially export to allies, while also ensuring our own defense permanently with at least some domestically reproducible assets.
I think the scariest thing not many want to talk about during all of this is the analog between Ukraine and Canada vis a vis Russia and the United States. If the US continues to decline as a global hegemon and more volatile politicians take root, who's to say there isn't a future where they look to us for resource expansion? Maybe it's a century away, but it is sobering.
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