Mark Carney just gave Trump a big win that the prime minister masked with anti-US rhetoric. And Carney looks set to hand the Donald another militarist win.
As climate-change-fuelled forest fires displace tens of thousands of Canadians, Carney announced a massive increase in military spending Monday to overcome “threats which felt far away and remote [that] are now immediate and acute.” In announcing an immediate $9 billion boost to a military budget that’s doubled over the past decade, the PM wasn’t citing the fires driving Canadians from their homes, but Russia and China.
Whatever one thinks about their internal politics or Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, those two nations don’t pose a military threat to Canada. That’s abundantly clear from a quick glance at the geopolitical map. Canada has a thousand troops on Russia’s border in Latvia while Canadian warships and spy planes regularly pass near China’s territorial waters and airspace. Those countries don’t do anything remotely as threatening to Canada.
The US is the only country that could realistically invade Canada. Its president has repeatedly raised annexation but there’s no indication ‘our’ military has lessened its subservience to its US counterpart since Trump began his threats. Despite appeals, the Canadian forces have maintained a slew of aggressive international deployments alongside the US. (more...)
More Canadian war spending exactly what Trump demanded
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