alt Hacker NewsWhen they say "The Arctic", you can often read that as being within the borders of Canada.
When you have something, and you lack the means to defend and assert that right - do you really have it? Canada has so defunded its military, that it's effectively an undefended nation.
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Do you feel the same way about your personal property? Defend it at all times with force or it is effectively someone else’s?
What a horrible world you live in.
Do you know how much hard power credibility the US has lost from the Iran War failure?
The US couldn't defend our bases in the area or our newly less enthusiastic regional allies. It couldn't keep the Hormuz open. The US wasted years worth of advanced munitions inventory defending against relatively cheap missiles.
The US couldn't annex Canada if it wanted to. Canada doesn't even need a military to destroy the US via assymetric tactics.
Not sure that Canada has defunded it's military as much as it's been told "you don't need it". Canada couldn't buy proper nuclear subs from the USA but for Australia it was okay? And let's not talk about locally sourced defense tech programs... Ahem Avro