Pay us back for all the good Canadians who died defending the US and NATO in Afghanistan.
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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GO FUCK YOURSELF, we want our money back from the joint strike fighter program first
Have a great day eh
He's intentionally misleading. The NATO 2% target doesn't mean NATO members should pay 2% of their GDP to NATO, and definitely not to the US. It's not money they "owe".
Not only that, the numbers don't make sense
The $2 trillion figure is likely derived from a report published in March by the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank based in Washington D.C.
The report’s authors came up with the figure based on military expenditures of NATO members between 2000 — six years before the 2 per cent target was actually formalized — and 2024. The report did not provide a dollar value for Canada’s alleged shortfall specifically.
He's intentionally misleading.
Of course he is. You can tell by the (R) beside his name.
Get kirked Thom.
Isn't the 2 trillion dollars the same amount the Department of War couldn't account for in it's multiple failed audits, what some conspirists say is the reason for 9/11. If you look at the amount they spend per year being 3 times what China spends, then why is China seemingly increasing it's military capability at a much faster pace than the U.S.? The companies that benefit from U.S. spending are more being subsidized than producing (looking at you Boeing). As a side note, I can't believe that Boeing has a contract to do work in Canada (can't remember what and too lazy to look it up).
If Canada owes some kind of payment to the gods of war for not spending enough on killing people over the years, I propose that we should pay it in the form of a huge pile of $100 banknotes which is then ritually devoted to Huitzilopochtli by the governor general and then burned.
You know shit's hitting the fan when the Military-Industrial Complex Crack Addict is starting to ask for more money
sounds like reparations. is he for that because oh wow we have a lot of historical stuff to make up for.