Comments by "Franceyne Ireland" (@franceyneireland1633) on "Russia Wants to Use Military to Restore 1914 Borders" video.
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@Glattbrugg1 By the end of WW2 Canada has the world's fourth largest air force and third largest navy. When Germany invaded Russia, Canada supplied 1,388 Valentine tanks, 1,348 weapon carriers, 1,051 Hurricane aircraft fighters, 10 “Lake” class mine sweepers all made in Canada; gifted the Russians the icebreaker Montcalm; 125 Soviet vessels were repaired in the Canadian ports in the province of BC, which included provisions of sailors clothes, deck and engine room stores; 37,286 tons of aluminum; 10,000 tons of cordite; 27,000 tons of copper; 882,482 tons of steel rails; 1,562 flatcar units; Agricultural aid of 9 million bushels of wheat to eighty tons of brome grass seed.
Canada started cutting military spending when Prime Minister Diefenbaker agreed to stop making major weapons in 1959 cancelled the Avro Arrow. Diefenbaker cut Canada's military from 5% of GDP to about 2% of GDP over six years as he was pressured by the US into accepting in 1957-1964, where the US wanted to have the bulk of military spending and responsibility and wanted all of the military manufacturing. Since 1959, Canada buys pretty much all of its major military hardware from the USA also Leopard tanks from German. Canada needs to start producing weapons and military equipment which would create jobs within Canada and be less costly than purchasing from other countries. Canada needs to be able to defend itself in the Pacific, Atlantic and the Arctic, plus having a good defence is a deterrent from aggressive countries. If Canada doesn't we could find ourselves in the same position as Ukraine. Putin had made previous claims to the North Pole, then in April 2021 Putin formally enlarged its claim to the seabed in the Arctic Ocean all the way to Canada's and Greenland's (Denmark's) exclusive zones. A situation where they're claiming Canadian and Danish continental shelf as the Russian continental shelf. The Soviets were charting Canadian waters and shorelines back in the 1970's, which at the time could only be done by nuclear subs; according to 2011 reports Soviet Cold-War-era nautical charts of the Canadian Arctic marked with the hammer and sickle symbol surfaced published by the Russian Hydrographic Service.The Soviets charts contained many more depth soundings than corresponding modern Canadian charts including areas at the time were never ice free. Putin has really built up with military bases, he wants control over the Northern Sea trade routes with the melting ice plus the minerals and oil in the Arctic. China is claiming to be a near Arctic country, China has made agreements with Russia to build ports etc in the Arctic.
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