• n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    GO FUCK YOURSELF, we want our money back from the joint strike fighter program first

    Have a great day eh

  • mech@feddit.org
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    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”.

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      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.

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      He’s intentionally misleading.

      Of course he is. You can tell by the ® bedide his name.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    Pay us back for all the good Canadians who died defending the US and NATO in Afghanistan.

  • StoneyPicton@lemmy.ca
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    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).

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    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.

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    You know shit’s hitting the fan when the Military-Industrial Complex Crack Addict is starting to ask for more money

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    4 days ago

    sounds like reparations. is he for that because oh wow we have a lot of historical stuff to make up for.