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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
Australia also doesn't share a border with the US and has China just around the corner.
So, Canada is a friendly neighbor to the largest, most advanced military in the history of the planet and we need to spend more taxpayer money on defense which will likely mean less social services because...?
I'm okay with spending little on our domestic military for now while providing reasonable support to allies around the world like Ukraine.
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I'll add if the past 60 years should have taught us anything, it's that having a large standing force is not the solution to security. It's having robust social safety nets (so you have a healthy and happy population), and educated and informed society (that doesn't buy into the BS of mindless demagogue), and the ability to mobilize / tool up quickly.
What doesn't work is a large force of peace time military personal or aged weapons stashes or traditional armies vs guerrilla forces.
So rather focusing on spending commitments, would prefer NATO report on their readiness to produce weapons, their readiness to recruit and train, the social cohesion. Every NATO country should have an action plan setup to mobilize national industry to produce X number of armourments within x period of time. Not sure Canada would be meeting that either, but at least it would be something, instead of a meaningless spending target plucked out of the Military Industrial Complex just cause.