Trump administration 2024-2028

[QV]

Oh, your talking about the time period after the Cold War when every single country in NATO cut back defense spending, including the US?

I'm talking about the continued degrading of the Canadian military post WWII all the way to today. Nothing is going to justify the state Canada has found itself in these past decades. It was stupid then, and remains stupid today. And now we are scrambling and the threats are growing.

 

[Czech_pivo]

I'm talking about the continued degrading of the Canadian military post WWII all the way to today. Nothing is going to justify the state Canada has found itself in these past decades. It was stupid then, and remains stupid today. And now we are scrambling and the threats are growing.

Yes and No.
There was no way that a country of our population size could continue the defence spending from WWII through the late 1950s after Korea settled down.
But, with that being said, by the 2005-2010 time period there should have been a definite shift back towards taking our responsibilities as a G7 and founding NATO member seriously. Sadly, outside of the US, we had no other role models with NATO to follow as they all were doing the same thing as us.

 

[Cloud Cover]

When did Canada get responsible between 2011 and Q1 2025.

 

[QV]

Sadly, outside of the US, we had no other role models with NATO to follow as they all were doing the same thing as us.

With that last bit... can we at least acknowledge the US position is somewhat justified?

 

[Brad Sallows]

Meanwhile something seems to be going right, for some reason...

Any kind of stress tends to accelerate the failure of weak players in the game. I'd expect to see depressed bottom line numbers in an employers' hiring market and improved numbers in an employees' hiring market. We currently have the latter, if all the screaming from public agencies and private enterprises is to be believed. People unwilling to remain unemployed should be snapped up and their time moved from lower-value to higher-value outputs.

And then there are all the other factors which render any speculation on single factors, including the above, into mere guesswork. It's very difficult to know why things haven't cratered to match doom-and-gloom "trade war" predictions. If a (predicted by some) post-Christmas slump doesn't happen, those predictions can pretty much be discarded.