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Canada's military is, and has been for over a decade, in a state of
disarray. This is largely due to two facts. The first is the Trudeau
government, which preached quasi-socialist values and viewed the
Soviet Union not as an aggressor, but rather as the victim of American
agression. Trudeau managed to spit on the Army, Air Force, and Navy on
both sides of the border.

No, I suspect the real truth is that Trudeau decided that if there was ever
a war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact it would swiftly go nuclear and we'd
all be dead. So he didn't see the point in large expenditures on the
military.

NATO forces would have a much greater likelihood of having to lob buckets of
instant sunshine during the 1970s to stop the Warsaw pact, than compared to the
80s when conventional forces were stronger.





Ron
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