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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (14 children)

If Canada were to increase domestic military production, how would that make it more dependent on the US in your view?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Canada is not exactly going to be breaking away from the US regardless how much military production it does. The countries that might get ideas of becoming independent are in Europe, and as long as Europe doesn't have a serious military industry of its own it will stay dependent on NATO which is run by the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (9 children)

If NATO was disbanded tomorrow, Canada would still have to work with the fact that its neighbour is a lot bigger than it. It seems to me that even if it cannot meaningfully escape American influence altogether, at least not for so long as America has as much power as it does, there are still always degrees of independence. So how is NATO wanting an increase in Canadian domestic military production a move to make Canada more dependent on the US? Or, if in your view it makes no difference whatsoever, how is this request relevant to it at all?

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