The employment concept document hammering home the threat to Canada from China and Russia comes as the military leadership and its supporters advocate for billions more dollars in defence spending.

But pumping more money into the military comes at a time when the Liberal government is pushing fiscal restraint on federal departments. In addition, the Canadian Forces and National Defence have faced questions about how they manage the money they already receive as well as concerns about equipment projects that have gone tens of billions of dollars over budget without providing additional military capability.

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    1 year ago

    If the west, especially the US had not invested so heavily in Ukraine, do you think there would be a protracted war right now?

    Probably not, Ukraine just wouldn’t exist anymore. How is that better?

    If any country is guilty of that, I only know of one country in the world

    There are a few countries like that, actually. There used to be other ones, too. The fact that one does it does not excuse the other. And no, it’s not okay that one does it “because they’re the good guys” either (altough I don’t think many people outside that country think they’re the good guys, really, I certainly don’t).