Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

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North Americans have plenty of experience with war, much of different than anything experienced by Europeans, who never had anything resembling a frontier during that time. North Americans knew what it meant to defend themselves, much of it spontaneously, against aggressors for a long count of years. It's just that 1930s socialism/fascism didn't find fertile ground here and no fighting of consequence took place here during the two big ones. The idea of "home defence" has a long history here.

I beg to differ. Their was the Scottish/British border wars, the Welsh/English border wars, the Irish wars and that is just GB. We could throw in a half dozen mini-wars between France and Germany or the German States (exclusive of Napoleon), the conflicts between Spain and Islam, Italy in fact, pretty well every European country I can think of had their border skirmishes. War is something we all have in common