3 ms·
"Anand needs to be aware that Canada will never be threatened by China or Russia because they are not as capable as they pretend." If this is true, why bother
by JimtheCoder 4y ago
"Anand needs to be aware that Canada will never be threatened by China or Russia because they are not as capable as they pretend."
If this is true, why bother with any military at all...
- bombolo 4y agoThey share a long border with the most aggressive militarised country that has ever existed.
- mentat 4y agoWasn't aware that Canada had moved to 1940s Europe...
- satvikpendem 4y agoOr Mongolia. Or Assyria.
- digdugdirk 4y agoI read the above statement as "militarized aggressively (in comparison to the rest of the world)". The US is/was essentially able to outmuscle multiple regional powers to such a degree that they stopped even trying to compete militarily. They were/are on a different technological level, if warfare were a technology.
- bombolo 4y agoNazi germany limited itself mostly to the same continent…
- StanislavPetrov 4y ago>If this is true, why bother with any military at all... Because politicians need kickbacks, wealthy shareholders need "defense" stocks to keep rising and vassal states like Canada need to act at the behest of their geopolitical master.
- JimtheCoder 4y ago"Because politicians need kickbacks, wealthy shareholders need "defense" stocks to keep rising and vassal states like Canada need to act at the behest of their geopolitical master." Well, things like logic can't beat arguments like this...
- StanislavPetrov 4y agoThat's right, because logic works hand in hand with objective reality. On the other hand, logic would be very effective to beat the patently absurd argument that Canada's purchase of 88 F-35s is in any way related to an actual military threat faced by Canada. Unfortunately, even on HN, absurd propaganda doubling as conventional wisdom trumps logic and objective reality every time when it comes to geopolitics.