Submitted 3 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/canada-military-ceos-iraq-us/
Canada’s Business Council is pushing to triple the country’s military spending while cutting other government programs. This strategy, tied to NATO commitments and US trade relations, would shift billions away from social programs toward defense contractors.
Archived version: web.archive.org/…/canada-military-ceos-iraq-us/
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There’s nothing inherently wrong with defense spending. Given the current political shitshow worldwide, every country needs to be sure they can keep themselves secure if necessary. The problem is where the funding is coming from, i.e. they need to be taxing the fucking billionaires and conglomerates.
Secure against imagined threats from the Eastern hemisphere? lol
Secure against very real threats from America? Definitely.
Let’s pretend that NATO is purely a defensive alliance, and then let’s pretend that fighting to the last Ukrainian, is for purposes of expanding and letting them join NATO, and that the most pathetic losers in NATO are not the ones who are nuked as an example for their evil if that objective comes anywhere close to realization.
Canada’s defense is solely reliant on US and its restraint. Aggression towards Russia and NATO expansion does not enhance its defense, because the new members have no capability to defend Canada.
Canada needs to only defend itself from US. If North Korea can help with that, then that is the alliance we need more than US. Every traitor in Canada or EU that responds to Trump by begging to just make NATO stronger, by throwing money at US defense industry needs to be shut down aggressively.
An alliance the the DPRK if preferable to one with the USA
most rational tankie
It’s math. Instead of pretending the one side who is explicitly threatening to destroy us are “the good guys”. The real Canadian problem is having allowed the US to tell us who the bad guys were all along, so that in this moment, we’d have no friends, and we’d have people like you/CEO council, say how terrible any alternative response to submission is.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Remove tax freedoms for the rich, then funnel those billions into military spending…galen Westen actually paying taxes would be enough to cover this shit. He does not need a castle…force him to sell
blakenong@lemmings.world 3 days ago
Canada will be just like the USA within 5 years. Once they get the taste for lead instead of maple, it’s all downhill. Good luck, Canada, MAGA means all of the Americas.