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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
Well yeah so I think you're saying 'both' - that's where it gets tricky to me, I feel like one needs to take precedence over the other to figure out what military is the best for Canada.
To have one military be tasked with both defending a country as geographically unique as Canada (presumably from a physical attacker), while also being able to simultaneously deploy across the Atlantic/Pacific in a land/air/sea battle, seems like a lot. Maybe more than we can actually do. I'd be cool with focusing hard on one, or the other.
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Are you prepared to exit NATO then?
Canada has to be able to defend itself. That is a given.
But Canada has commitments abroad. These commitments mean Canada's military has to be able to deploy and perform in conflict zones, and to support our NATO allies. No one thought we'd see a large scale conflict in Eastern Europe again, yet here we are. What happens when the mad man invades non-NATO Finland next? Or what happens if he invades a NATO ally like Estonia?
If we focus only on "one" thing like you suggest, then Canada has to exit NATO, which would be a disaster for our security IMO.