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Canada should boost military spending, former NATO commander says
2016-05-01 01:56:27 Post No. 72574409
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Canada should boost military spending, former NATO commander says
Anonymous
2016-05-01 01:56:27
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The former supreme allied commander of NATO says he agrees with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that non-U.S. allies need to step up to the plate and boost their military budgets.
"The two per cent goal is one that nations have set and I fully support it and I agree with Mr. Trump that nations should try to hit that two per cent goal," James Stavridis said in an interview with Terry Milewski on CBC Radio's The House.
Canada signed on to meeting that target in 2006 but has not reached the goal. Canada's spending comes in at one per cent of GDP, or roughly $20 billion a year, a figure that some have argued is too low to sustain a modern military force. Only five other countries of the 28 in NATO spend less.
Trump argued Wednesday, in his first major scripted public policy speech, that the United States foots the bill for far too much of the alliance's defence capacity, and other member nations — including Canada — are "freeloaders" for failing to contribute their fair share of domestic military spending.
So what does /pol/ think about NATO? What should it's purpose be now that the Cold War is over?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nato-commander-trump-comments-1.3559234
>Also to other Canadians read the comment section. It'll hurt a bit.
