Putin pouts as Canada flexes muscles in Arctic

Bad Vlad is shaking in his boots if he's read this story at CBC news.

First thing he would have noticed, and it's right there in the title, is that Canada has allies!

Yessiree! Canada isn't just a lone empty suit spouting platitudes out there on the world stage. We're not alone; we're in tight with France and Denmark, and (at this point Vlad was starting to smirk, but wait for it...)  the BIG DOG!

Bet that smirk got wiped off his commie-fascist face right quick when he read about the presence of "the brand-new American guided missile destroyer USS Thomas Hudner" up there in Canada's Arctic.

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I guess at some level this story might be "news," but why does Murray Brewster have to frame it in jingoistic clap-trap?  We're in the Arctic honing our "basic war-fighting skills" with our allies...

Oh are we? And the war we are preparing to fight will be against our "adversaries," Russia and China?

Full Stop.

This article is nothing but militaristic pro-war propaganda. Canada as a country has absolutely nothing to gain by allying with the Americans against Russia and China. The failing and flailing American Empire is collapsing before our eyes, but we want to support them as they foment war with Russia and China?

Complete idiocy. Canada needs to mind its own business, because there's more than enough to mind. We don't need to invest 20 billions in new fighter jets and 80 billions in new warships just so we can "stand with our allies."

Let's invest those billions in Canadians instead. One hundred billions would go a long way in addressing the problems that bedevil us as a country. Just imagine a Canada where everyone has a roof over their head, a roof they can't get kicked out of because their teenager got busted with a bag of weed.

Imagine your kid graduating university without $50 thousand in student debt.

Imagine a living wage for everyone. Imagine humane elder-care. Imagine a universal pension plan that would allow every elder to live in dignity.


Imagine all the things we can't do because our priority is to spend that money on US armaments, which we are obliged to do so we can "stand with our allies," as Ally-in-Chief Donald Trump provokes war with Russia and China.