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How Russia and China are seizing on Canada’s carelessness in the Arctic (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

While Canada and the US occupy roughly the same amount of territory, the American military is roughly six times the size (at 450,000 troops to 63,000) and its budget 30 times larger ($842 billion to $28 billion). As a percentage of GDP, Canada’s military spending has languished around 1.3 per cent, near the bottom of the Nato table and below the expected minimum of 2 per cent.

That actually doesn’t look all that bad to me; it appears that for the most part, Canada has tried to work smarter. Considering the population disparities between the US and Canada, the military spending has been invested in non-personnel assets, resulting in significantly less waste.

That said, there are definitely places implementation can still be improved.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No one sane in the US is fighting a war against Canada. I live 1,300 miles (2,000+ kilometers) from Toronto. And they seem nice. I live closer to Nicaragua.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The Aroostook War was in like 1835 over some lumber. No war will be be held because it’s a fever dream of a senile old man and his lackeys.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

And Drake is already dead.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

It ain’t the size of the dog in the fight. It’s the size of the fight in the dog. I can’t even imagine signing up to fight over some place called Puffin Shit Island(or whatever) just so my country can protect the northwest passage when they can’t even use Signal. I’d probably defect to the Puffins. They seem chill.