Canada’s Militarization and the End of U.S. Hegemony | MR Online
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Owen Schalk details how Canada’s policies—the hostile moves toward geopolitical opponents, efforts to decrease economic ties to China through critical minerals exploration, and hundreds of billions of dollars in projected military spending over the next decades—do not make Canadians safer.
  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 days ago

    NATO is a jobs program for the US military-industrial complex.

    Over the past year, Ottawa has announced $30 billion in new equipment purchases, “including the acquisition of the Lockheed Martin F-35 and the Boeing P8-8A Poseidon,” plus “a fleet of General Atomics MQ-9B Reapers as well as trucks.”

    You can’t spell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boondoggle without F-35.

    The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program has suffered massive cost and schedule overruns and the fighter’s military utility is the subject of heated controversy, yet the program continues to be the highest priority procurement activity for the United States Department of Defense.