Canada hired an ex-Goldman Sachs banker to revive its military. Investors are excited (ca.finance.yahoo.com)

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Does anybody seriously think that Canada would be taking on Russia or China? The biggest danger to Canada is obviously the US, and the way US would capture Canada wouldn't be by military force, but by leveraging social instability that will result from the austerity policies to feed this massive increase in the military budget. You appear to have a one dimensional view of security focused on the military. The reality is that security starts with having social stability and a functional economy that serves the interests of the public. Undermining that to focus on the military is the height of idiocy.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Was gonna say, we fight China, Russia and the US (just reusing the framing) with production. With an economy that is (socially) stable and productive enough to make the various commodities that we currently can only import. You can't have security while external players could disrupt your economy with a few keystrokes.

Production of defense commodities is downstream from that since those outputs are used in defense production. Even if you use defense production as a demand driver. If the economomy isn't stable and productive we can't sustain any sort of hot war, should we need to.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Exactly, the best way to ensure security of Canada is by investing in self reliance. We should be building out domestic industries to build infrastructure, housing, provide healthcare, education, and so on. That's what makes the country strong, what leads to social cohesion, and genuine sovereignty.