[huxley]

There are only 15 countries worldwide with a higher defence budget than Canada so the budget is hardly tiny, it just doesn’t meet the arbitrary and obscene targets of 2/5% GDP. In actuality, Canada spends more than twice as much per capita than the world average.

The only realistic threat to Canada is the new one from Donald Trump, but it would take closer to 30% GDP to protect from that one.

[palmotea]

> There are only 15 countries worldwide with a higher defence budget than Canada so the budget is hardly tiny...

Canada is pretty big: it's the second-largest country by land-area. Surely there must be certain defense expenditures that need to scale with that?

> In actuality, Canada spends more than twice as much per capita than the world average.

That seems like a twisted measure, due to 1) the land-area issue I mentioned above, and 2) there are a lot of countries in the world that are small and poor, and thus cannot afford a military that can actually defend themselves.

> The only realistic threat to Canada is the new one from Donald Trump...

That's actually not a realistic threat, either.

[watwut]

How is USA not realistic threat? They are already going out of their way to harm and weaken Canada. They are openly talking about expanding. They are already commiting war crimes in pacific and have fascist leadership. With president likely having alzeihmer or dementia or other mental healt issue

[k12sosse]

Would be cheaper to just buy a billion worth of his crypto and then he'll be offering us all the bubba treatment, eh?