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I've been spending a lot of time around defence people lately and it's quite interesting. The whole Canada needs to spend more on defence thing, because the "US" is supplementing our defence is such a pile of shit.

Things I didn't know, Canada had a nuclear weapons program until 1960, where it was disbanded under the US pressure so that they could provide defence for NA. Fact check on this shows that Canada was part of a NATO Nuclear program that had US nukes.. but never had it's own nukes ?? Any defence ppl here to clarify?

America thinks that by demanding an increase of defence spend, that they would get more defence business... but in turn, we and everyone else just purchased from more people aside from America. Exception to F15s, apparently we need those.

America is run like a corporation and blind to unintended consequences lol. Canada and Europe is run like a society. Americans like to say they pay less taxes, but in reality, the difference of Canadian tax (in VA) is 3-5% each year, without the added benefit of a decent public school system and healthcare. Anecdotally, on this one example I heard, someone in VA spends $30K/yr x2 for 2 kids to go to private school, and $20K/yr on private healthcare insurance for a family of 4. That's a 80K/yr tax LOL. The US is good if you're rich.... all those ppl in Alberta that want US health care... it's shit and unaffordable.

Unrelated to politics ish, but lol:

"Oh, literally here at the oceanfront in Virginia beach, there's a curfew for the rest of April, Friday and Saturday nights. Because even for Americans, there's been too much gun violence here recently. More murders. So Hampton Roads is about the size of Ottawa. 1.2, 1.4 Million. There'll be more murders in Hampton Roads this year than there will be in all of Canada. "