Canada's military policy as the "51st state"

Canada's military policy as the "51st state"What's worse than Americans trolling you as the 51st state? We are a federal government that makes it very evident to the world what we are.
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While in Europe this week, the prime minister gave another address about Ukraine that was ignored. - Canada has turned into that cheap dinner party visitor who rises up and makes a lengthy, drawn-out toast to everyone's health but never, ever stays to help pay the bill, according to our NATO partners. In international security circles, we are frequently made fun of for our self-righteous statements that end with nothing.
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- The Russians and Putin smirk when the Canadian PM declares he is  "...unequivocal on standing up against Vladimir Putin's illegal, immoral, unjust violations of the international order" - while his submarines and ships openly traverse our territorial waters with zero fear of Canadian intervention or retaliation. 

Canada talks about the international order but won't pay for it.

We give self-righteous speeches, but make our allies - particularly American taxpayers - pay for our deadbeat status on  NATO, NORAD, AUKUS, Five Eyes, naval/Arctic strategy, and energy and mineral security.  (While we simultaneously waste $50 billion on bankrupt EV battery plants...)

2.  Yesterday, CAF announced new lowered-entry standards for an already deeply understaffed, underequipped and demoralized military. 

- We are 16,000 recruits short with morale at 34%.  A DEI-obsessed general staff desperately hope that being "inclusive" or ignoring health issues will fill the void of their lack of vision, strategy and command.  Won't work.

- Canada is now a rounding error.  We have 67k active troops & 5k in reserve, including cooks and janitors.  The USA has 1.29 million active troops and 700k in reserve. Their Special Operations Command is larger than our entire armed forces. That is not proportional. 
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The world is a more dangerous place, but Canada is acting like it is on a vacation from history that the US has to pay for.

It's ridiculous to expect Russia or NATO or the USA to respect our sovereignty if we don't actually care enough to invest in it ourselves.

A wake up call is coming.

Canada needs to re-build the military and intelligence infrastructure, staffing, strategy, equipment and capabilities that will make our enemies and allies respect us once again.

Self-righteous overseas speeches and lower-standard HR inclusivity announcements don't cut it anymore.

If we don't want to be called the 51st state, we have to stop acting like it.

#CAF #ukraine #cdnpol

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