Hm, only Slovenia,Spain,Belgium,and Luxembourg spend less than Little Canader,(0.99%) no wonder the U.S. is pissed off at it’s NATO “partners”.
We are a Nation of smug freeloaders when it comes to our military commitment.
One would think Belgium, given recent events there,would spend a bit more on their military, but then that might offend someone.
Please correct the spelling:
“NATO warned to start paying its bills.”
(Ed: It just wouldn’t be a regular day if I didn’t make a contraction/possession mistake. I hate that about English almost as much as gender in French. TY, fixed.)
Europe could start by defending its own borders against the muslim invasion.
I was stationed in Turkey, at a NATO installation. During the summer the installation ran on “NATO hours”. Basically 0900 to like 1330…talk about do nothing….never seen the jets fly…
I see we are going to tighten up border security. Next we will have an announcement on increased military spending and our commitment to NATO.
One trip to Washington and Jojo potato rearranges his priorities.
We could begin by creating a serious peacetime military, capable of meeting all sorts of contingencies.
That would be a regular force of 100,000 minimum and a reserve force of at least 50,000.
And all the bells and whistles to go with it too, naturally.
(Obviously I’m daydreaming here – no, hallucinating – of course. Though in the mid-Sixties when Canada’s population was a mere 20 million, the combined regular strength of the RCN, Canadian Army and RCAF was around 125,000.)
Go get em, Mad Dog !!! Time for the EU to start defending themselves, by diverting some of their welfare payments to Greece, Portugal, Spain … etc.
Time for the EU to PAY THIER FAIR SHARE. I just ADORE taking the red hot coals of leftist rhetoric and pouring it back on their own pin-shaped heads
Heh, also talk of dissolving the UN…well, to be replaced with something bigger and better.
Look up TiSA, bigger and better than TPP. Like communism, this time it’ll work lol
Interesting that apart for US the only counties spending more than 2% are UK, Greece and the directly threatened by siberian horde Poland and Estonia.
the delight here @ right wing central on the demise of TPP is curious.
when Harper the control freak CONservative got the signatures it was time to celebrate among CONservatives.
now Tronald Dump scraps it. and yeeeHAAA! time to celebrate again.
soooo someone somewhere acts to harm Canada’s apparent interests, (that wuz the sales pitch) aaaaand because they are made of antiDem particles it becomes good news.
very curious. also treasonous eh? support those who harm your own country’s trade relations?
“We hate Trump. He’s a Nazi. He’s racist. He’s literally Hitler. But you have to defend us and give us money for movies and music and dams and stuff.” Under the circumstances I wouldn’t blame President Trump for pulling out of NATO and booting the UN to the curb.
Part of your problem is that you are an idiot who assumes that those on the right are unified in their convictions regarding Trump, free trade and other matters. Strad for example has often maintained his contempt for what who he referred to as “one worlders” and is utterly economically illiterate and incapable of understanding what scrapping of TPP means. Others (including me) are very concerned with Trump’s anti free trade (and domestic labour pro union) policies, although I for one agree with Strad that western world should abandon UN altogether. See, unlike the monolith of morons on the left we on the right have our own opinions, disagree with one another and are not afraid to challenge the groupthink or the mainstream narrative.
Good comment. Exactly right. Strad and I have zero common ground on many issues including GMO and Monsanto. If historybuff actually read some of the comments posted here he might be surprised by the diversity of opinion he’d find unlike heavily moderated sites like CBC.
I suppose, nowadays, living up to your commitments is a bad thing. Especially if you don’t live up to those commitments, you still get all the advantages.
If one party always has to pick up the tab at a dinner table – eventually they won’t show up.
Hopefully Trump follows through on his threat.
Just think, if Junior were to start a trend of increasing military spending by 12% per year plus the rate of GDP growth, we could claim to be meeting our commitment by about the time President Trump finishes his second term. Go Joe!
Trump has basically informed the NATO members that if they want to sit at the same table as the US they need to demonstrate their commitment by raising their defence bugets to the levels they agreed to when Obama was in office.
I believe the Canadian health care system is a direct result of getting to live next door to the USA and not just because they supply us with the third tier we can run to everytime our system fails us in technology and speed but mostly because we underspend on our military living under the yank umbrella
Looks like we have some globalist trolls here.
TPP, NATO, NAFTA, the EU, the UN. They all have to go.
Of course, there are the retards who will say how utterly dependent we are on one or more of these globalist institutions. I call those people “liars.” Just like the liars who said that Brexit will kill England, or that Trump will kill these USA.
You know what else needs to go? The G7, G8, G20, etc.
It should be in the constitution of all free peoples that their elected leaders can only engage in bi-lateral negotiations that help to enrich or otherwise defend the interests of their constituents. Sitting in star chambers and making secret deals is not in the interests of the people they claim to represent. If there are more than 2 parties at the table, then each party is a minority. The more folk there are at the table, the less likely it is that the interests of any one negotiator will be defended.
Trump is threatening what Canada does not appear able to do. Canada sent troops in WW I to bail out a bunch of countries that should have been left to what they had brought on themselves. WW II repeat what should have been fixed in WW I.
Has anything changed? No! Canada has freeloaded off the Americans just as the Euros have done.
Canada stuck its nose in the Balkins, Afganistan and Libya. IMHO all of this was primarily a Euro responsibility. Harper invested in the military but then kowtowed to Euro and USA versions of foreign interests. Isolation, militarily should be the default approach. Secure the Canadian borders and focus on northern sovereignty.
That’s because Harper is a rank globalist.
In the Balkans, we basically helped NATO create yet another Muslim state called Kosovo. In Libya, we helped NATO to hand Libya to jihadists. At least in Afghanistan, we didn’t help NATO to work directly against our own interests (that I know of).
a people and a country that is unable to defend itself eventually belongs to someone else.
Norway has about enough people to populate a decent sized city
the ONLY opinion and policy that matters is the ones coming from the leader. on this count, the right wing is indeed fractured.
how’s things with the Putin crowd these days? Tronald Dump is a dangerous impulsive neophyte when it comes to dealing with the Russian.
Hm, only Slovenia,Spain,Belgium,and Luxembourg spend less than Little Canader,(0.99%) no wonder the U.S. is pissed off at it’s NATO “partners”.
We are a Nation of smug freeloaders when it comes to our military commitment.
One would think Belgium, given recent events there,would spend a bit more on their military, but then that might offend someone.
Please correct the spelling:
“NATO warned to start paying its bills.”
(Ed: It just wouldn’t be a regular day if I didn’t make a contraction/possession mistake. I hate that about English almost as much as gender in French. TY, fixed.)
Europe could start by defending its own borders against the muslim invasion.
I was stationed in Turkey, at a NATO installation. During the summer the installation ran on “NATO hours”. Basically 0900 to like 1330…talk about do nothing….never seen the jets fly…
I see we are going to tighten up border security. Next we will have an announcement on increased military spending and our commitment to NATO.
One trip to Washington and Jojo potato rearranges his priorities.
We could begin by creating a serious peacetime military, capable of meeting all sorts of contingencies.
That would be a regular force of 100,000 minimum and a reserve force of at least 50,000.
And all the bells and whistles to go with it too, naturally.
(Obviously I’m daydreaming here – no, hallucinating – of course. Though in the mid-Sixties when Canada’s population was a mere 20 million, the combined regular strength of the RCN, Canadian Army and RCAF was around 125,000.)
Go get em, Mad Dog !!! Time for the EU to start defending themselves, by diverting some of their welfare payments to Greece, Portugal, Spain … etc.
Time for the EU to PAY THIER FAIR SHARE. I just ADORE taking the red hot coals of leftist rhetoric and pouring it back on their own pin-shaped heads
Heh, also talk of dissolving the UN…well, to be replaced with something bigger and better.
Look up TiSA, bigger and better than TPP. Like communism, this time it’ll work lol
Interesting that apart for US the only counties spending more than 2% are UK, Greece and the directly threatened by siberian horde Poland and Estonia.
the delight here @ right wing central on the demise of TPP is curious.
when Harper the control freak CONservative got the signatures it was time to celebrate among CONservatives.
now Tronald Dump scraps it. and yeeeHAAA! time to celebrate again.
soooo someone somewhere acts to harm Canada’s apparent interests, (that wuz the sales pitch) aaaaand because they are made of antiDem particles it becomes good news.
very curious. also treasonous eh? support those who harm your own country’s trade relations?
“We hate Trump. He’s a Nazi. He’s racist. He’s literally Hitler. But you have to defend us and give us money for movies and music and dams and stuff.” Under the circumstances I wouldn’t blame President Trump for pulling out of NATO and booting the UN to the curb.
Part of your problem is that you are an idiot who assumes that those on the right are unified in their convictions regarding Trump, free trade and other matters. Strad for example has often maintained his contempt for what who he referred to as “one worlders” and is utterly economically illiterate and incapable of understanding what scrapping of TPP means. Others (including me) are very concerned with Trump’s anti free trade (and domestic labour pro union) policies, although I for one agree with Strad that western world should abandon UN altogether. See, unlike the monolith of morons on the left we on the right have our own opinions, disagree with one another and are not afraid to challenge the groupthink or the mainstream narrative.
Strad for example has often maintained his contempt for what who he referred to as “one worlders”…
I have contempt for them, but they will win in the short term…it’s in the Plan.
Just for you…
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/think-the-tpp-is-gone-wrong-its-about-to-get-replaced-with-something-much-worse_022017
Good comment. Exactly right. Strad and I have zero common ground on many issues including GMO and Monsanto. If historybuff actually read some of the comments posted here he might be surprised by the diversity of opinion he’d find unlike heavily moderated sites like CBC.
I suppose, nowadays, living up to your commitments is a bad thing. Especially if you don’t live up to those commitments, you still get all the advantages.
If one party always has to pick up the tab at a dinner table – eventually they won’t show up.
Hopefully Trump follows through on his threat.
Just think, if Junior were to start a trend of increasing military spending by 12% per year plus the rate of GDP growth, we could claim to be meeting our commitment by about the time President Trump finishes his second term. Go Joe!
Trump has basically informed the NATO members that if they want to sit at the same table as the US they need to demonstrate their commitment by raising their defence bugets to the levels they agreed to when Obama was in office.
I believe the Canadian health care system is a direct result of getting to live next door to the USA and not just because they supply us with the third tier we can run to everytime our system fails us in technology and speed but mostly because we underspend on our military living under the yank umbrella
Looks like we have some globalist trolls here.
TPP, NATO, NAFTA, the EU, the UN. They all have to go.
Of course, there are the retards who will say how utterly dependent we are on one or more of these globalist institutions. I call those people “liars.” Just like the liars who said that Brexit will kill England, or that Trump will kill these USA.
You know what else needs to go? The G7, G8, G20, etc.
It should be in the constitution of all free peoples that their elected leaders can only engage in bi-lateral negotiations that help to enrich or otherwise defend the interests of their constituents. Sitting in star chambers and making secret deals is not in the interests of the people they claim to represent. If there are more than 2 parties at the table, then each party is a minority. The more folk there are at the table, the less likely it is that the interests of any one negotiator will be defended.
Trump is threatening what Canada does not appear able to do. Canada sent troops in WW I to bail out a bunch of countries that should have been left to what they had brought on themselves. WW II repeat what should have been fixed in WW I.
Has anything changed? No! Canada has freeloaded off the Americans just as the Euros have done.
Canada stuck its nose in the Balkins, Afganistan and Libya. IMHO all of this was primarily a Euro responsibility. Harper invested in the military but then kowtowed to Euro and USA versions of foreign interests. Isolation, militarily should be the default approach. Secure the Canadian borders and focus on northern sovereignty.
That’s because Harper is a rank globalist.
In the Balkans, we basically helped NATO create yet another Muslim state called Kosovo. In Libya, we helped NATO to hand Libya to jihadists. At least in Afghanistan, we didn’t help NATO to work directly against our own interests (that I know of).
a people and a country that is unable to defend itself eventually belongs to someone else.
Norway has about enough people to populate a decent sized city
the ONLY opinion and policy that matters is the ones coming from the leader. on this count, the right wing is indeed fractured.
how’s things with the Putin crowd these days? Tronald Dump is a dangerous impulsive neophyte when it comes to dealing with the Russian.