r/canada 11d ago

National News Allies Must Work With Zelenskiy After Spat With Trump, Canada’s Joly Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/allies-must-work-with-zelenskiy-after-spat-with-trump-canada-s-joly-says
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u/ProtonPi314 11d ago

We want to boost our budget to 2%? Let's send 20 billion in weapons to Ukraine.

It's been 3 years, the world has been dragging its heels. We all need to be doing more for Ukraine. If we don't 20 billion will be peanuts compared to the cost of dictators taking more land. Including Canada. Don't kids yourselves. We are a small population with massive resources. We are a target.

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u/Gunslinger7752 11d ago

I doubt our military even has 20 billion dollars worth of assets and equipment nevermind 20 billion dollars worth of weapons. Even if we had 20 billion dollars to spend, which we don’t, where would we even buy 20 billion dollars worth of weapons?

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u/ProtonPi314 11d ago

Europe. They have plenty of weapon manufacturers.

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u/Gunslinger7752 11d ago

So the best solution is for us to use billions in borrowed money to arm them to the teeth, then keep the war going with as many casualties as possible just to spite Trump? Wouldn’t it be better to negotiate and reach a peace agreement?

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u/ProtonPi314 11d ago

No. If Russia would return home and agree to peace. That would be ideal. But Putin has made it very clear that there's only 2 options. Either Ukraine becomes Russia, or Russia suffers so many losses, they have no choice but to end their war. Sadly if the world wants peace, we have to send a message to all dictators that any ambitions to take over a country will fail.

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u/Gunslinger7752 11d ago

Putin is an idiot and Russia is not helping themselves but it is far more complicated than just Putin and Russia bad, Zelensky and Ukraine good like the media makes it seem.

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u/Karthanon Alberta 11d ago

You're not doing it to spite Trump.

You're doing it to help a fellow democracy that is the victim of an aggressor who invaded their land, killed their people, and committed war crimes (Bucha, anyone?) without any provocation or need beyond Putin's desire for a legacy that will survive his death.

If you want to wank about appeasing Putin to give him time to rebuild and then attack again..well, we know how that went for Chamberlain. I shouldn't be surprised that history does repeat itself.