• aeppelcyning@lemmy.ca
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    This is a great way to help us approach the 2% target without having to subsidize a country trying to annex us.

  • President Camacho@sh.itjust.works
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    He’s making it really easy to send our defense dollars elsewhere:

    *Trump took to Truth Social to say that his administration was negotiating with Canada about joining his “Golden Dome” missile defence system, which “will cost $61 Billion Dollars if they remain a separate, but unequal, Nation, but will cost ZERO DOLLARS if they become our cherished 51st State. They are considering the offer!” *

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    “Seventy-five cents of every dollar of capital spending for defence goes to the United States. That’s not smart,” - Carney Yes! Lets spread it out to those who might be willing and able to defend ournational security so we can continue to support each others’ cultures!

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        The likely hood of this happening? Slim, given that he (Carney) still intends to confiscate licensed/registered firearms from PAL/RPAL holders.

        Canada needs to keep a close eye on the US given the whole 51st state fiasco.

  • Daryl@lemmy.ca
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    " about joining the plan which foresees the nations on the continent spending $1.25 trillion on defence over the next five years."

    Aye and there is the rub. The news media talks about how much Germany spends on defense and how much France spends and so forth.

    That’s like talking about how much California spends on defense and how much Texas spends on defense and so on.

    Wat matters is how much the European Union collectively spends on defense, just like what matters is how much the United States collectively spends on defense, not each individual State.

    Collectively, the European Union is just as powerful economically as is the United States, and we should talk about the collective [United] European [Union] states when we compare them to the United States of America, not the individual countries (states) that make up the EU.

    Americans have completely stacked the deck against the statistics comparing Europe to America, by insisting on treating every European country separately, but all of the States in America collectively. and then convincing the world the American way of comparative accounting is the correct one.