What Incompetence Looks Like

Defence Minister Anita Anand - who like Melanie Joly is completely our of her depth and has no business being our defence minister - announced that Canada exhausted its 'military inventory' and that Canada needs to restock.

Hm.

In my lifetime, whenever people and leaders dared to suggest Canada should build up arms (to the extent the United States would allow it), it was met with howls of derision. 'We're a peaceful country!' and 'Who would attack Canada?' and 'we need the money for hospitals!' were the usual short sighted and often puerile responses only naive Canadians could utter and believe.

Right at the height of the Cold War I might add.

My position then - and now - was always if you don't have a strong standing army capable of defending national borders, then you're a sovereign state in name only. 

You need to always be prepared. It's the motto of Boy Scouts and it should be for a country. The United States takes this belief to exalted heights almost to the point of paranoia. You can never be too  prepared.

And know what? They're right. Despite its might, still we hear about how the U.S. military is currently stretched. During the Iraq and Afghanistan years, there was talk of war with Iran and the question was can America fight on several fronts?

Imagine the state of the Canadian armed forces!

For decades a clear example of naive Canadian defence policy was with respect to the Arctic. To Canada, its sovereignty is self-evident. But the fact and reality is countries including Denmark, China, Russia and the United States dispute parts of it. A classic definition of whether land belongs to a country is to plant a flag and occupy it. But Canada simply doesn't have the man power to patrol let alone occupy the mass block of ice known as the Arctic. So countries snoop and test Canadian patience knowing its anger is only as strong as the Americans willing to back it up.

So it made sense, as I would argue in university classes to hostile students and professor, to at least beef up our military presence. I wasn't asking to conscript people I was just saying increase the budget to the level needed to exert our sovereignty. Ot else stop complaining. If you can't challenge Danish aggression, then you'r e not much of an independent country in my view.

The issue of neglect of our military goes back to the 1980s. After WWII we had among the largest army in the world. Something like 3rd among all countries only to see it die a slow death in the post-war era to the point we're on the level of the U.S. National Guard. 

I exaggerate but you get the point. And this is not to question our capable commanders and soldiers. By all accounts, the Canadian soldier remains well trained and talented despite the obscene lack of public and political support. 

Our special forces offer fight under U.S. command is regarded among the best in the world. 

But rebuilding our armed forces isn't something you can do at the snap of a finger. It takes years of preparation. You have to keep up with technologies and military equipment development. Again, Canada has world class know-how on these fronts but without the support it could never manifest into a military outfit needed to guard such a massive land mass.

Part of the problem is we've offloaded our responsibilities to the United States which helped us to shift attention away from the military and into peacekeeping and pouring money saved into our welfare and public health system. Indirectly, it can be argued, paid by the U.S. taxpayer. 

Now the Liberals - and not just anti Liberals but authoritarian incompetent ideologues - realize what it means to be a real mature country and are looking to 'retain capacity'. 

That's easier said than done as I mentioned.

Look at it this way. How did Canada punch above its weight in both World Wars? It drove all of its human and capital resources into the war effort. That's how they 'retained capacity'. 

But those were different times. Citizens were bound by the common bond that still mattered to Canadians. Antiquated notions of country, freedom, courage and God are indispensable values needed to create a proud military heritage. 

We have none of that now. 

We have an obedient society that thinks masks and mandates are virtues. It's their "war". But one driven by fear and not courage. 

The war they clamour for against Russia demands courage in the name of 'freedom' and 'democracy'. Moreover, it can only succeed if a nation is principled and dedicated to these ideals and not divided.

Canada is not guided by any principles but cynical politics and is bitterly divided thanks to the incoherent Covid mandates that is imprisoning millions of Canadians.

All that being said, how did it come that our stockpiles were depleted? We basically didn't have enough arms to sustain us for a month. 

Who signed off on this? The country is effectively without weapons all to fight a war that really isn't our war nor is it a 'proxy' for fighting for 'Western liberal democratic values'. Like I said, if you don't practice it at home, you can't fight for it on foreign soil. 

It's just not possible. You're asking for a disaster.

This is another embarrassing moment for a party that has turned Canada into a clown car shit show. Its government is infested with talentless ignoramuses suddenly thrust into a real situation and it's mighty obvious they may have 'stepped up to the plate' and swung and missed.

Years of neglecting our military has now come home to roost and Canada has no underwear on.