Ukraine Army to train Canadian Armed Forces

Canada has embraced a leading role in huffing and puffing about Russia’s imminent invasion of Ukraine.

 That Canada is not hectoring the Rooskies from a position of strength is obvious. We’re among the NATO stalwarts who turned tail after failing to rout the Taliban “scumbags and murderers” from Afghanistan after twenty years of trying. In the end, the Afghan forces we’d spent years training collapsed so suddenly, we had no choice but to leave behind hundreds of Afghans who had risked their lives working for NATO.

With that failure fast receding from memory, we’re now laying down the law to Bad Vlad. 

Don’t you dare invade Ukraine, or else! 

Nobody knows what the “or else” looks like, but it sounds like we’re huddling with “our allies” to cook up the Mother of All Sanctions or some similar tomfoolery.

Doubt that’ll go far… Europe, home of some relatively important allies of ours, gets 40% of its natural gas from Russia. Once the sanctions bite, Canada will be able to replace that gas. Our European allies will just have to sit tight for ten or twelve years while we build out our pipelines and LNG terminals, and hope for mild winters till at least 2035 or so.

Meanwhile, if our humiliating retreat from Afghanistan wasn’t enough of an embarrassment, the Globe and Mail today reports that we can’t even get our Afghan interpreters out of Ukraine!

Turns out getting them out of Afghanistan was the easy part. In fact, all it took was a phone call from the Globe to the office of President Zelensky of Ukraine, and Ukrainian special forces in Kabul sprang into action to rescue a couple of their fixers, and spirit them to Kyiv. That certainly gives me a new respect for the geopolitical schlepp of our newspaper of record.

So here’s the grim irony; Canada’s bureaucracy is so incompetent we can’t even get these poor schmucks out of Ukraine, an allied country where our military has boots on the ground and where we’re training, believe it or not, Ukrainian special forces!

Maybe the Ukrainians should be training our guys instead.