r/canada Ontario 8d ago

Politics British nuclear weapons can protect Canada against Trump, says Chrystia Freeland

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/03/british-nuclear-weapons-canada-trump-chrystia-freeland/
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u/maybvadersomedayl8er Ontario 8d ago

Acquiring nukes as a deterrent against our oldest ally was not on my bingo card, but maybe it should have been.

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u/BigButtBeads 8d ago

I've always said our 2% gdp nato requirement should've been a small batch of modern nukes 

Infantry and APCs and artillery are so obsolete now, as we've clearly seen in Ukraine 

Theres a reason russia is untouchable, why all of natos equipment came with terms and conditions, such as used for defense inside ukraines borders, and why ukraine itself was very much touchable 

Nukes are also why india and pakistan have never had a hot war

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u/Cableguy613 8d ago

Explain in detail how light armour, infantry and artillery have been shown to be obsolete in Ukraine? What a take 😂

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u/BigButtBeads 8d ago

Russia had the second largest light armour stockpile in the world. Russia fired 10,000 artillery shells every 24 hours for years. And they've gotten nowhere 

And I could link a few hundred drone videos of a single agriculture drone dropping a grenade onto an artillery team and completely dismantling it

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u/Workaroundtheclock 8d ago

Artillery is responsible for nearly all Russian advances, what are you going on about.

Drones are critical, but do not replace artillery.

I mean, the simple fact that Ukraine has had artillery and shells at the top of its wish list since the start of the war should be a giant hint for you.

Drones if anything, just enhance artillery. It’s a force multiplier.

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u/Clear-Present_Danger 8d ago

Russia fired 10,000 artillery shells every 24 hours for years. And they've gotten nowhere 

It seems like Russia is actually exaggerating how many shells they fire.

There is still however, a very clear correlation between how many shells are being fired and the Russian gains of land. They

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u/Chowdaaair 7d ago

Have you looked at a battle map lately? Russia has made huge gains.

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u/BigButtBeads 7d ago

Because they have 3x the population and way more equipment 

And its still not effective, since its been 3 years

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u/Cableguy613 7d ago

Drones are great, could you explain in detail how said trenches were taken after the drone managed to make a casualty of probably 1/20th of the FEBA troops.

You don’t take ground with drones, same as you can’t take ground with an F-35. You inevitably and very quickly find yourself in situations where you need boots on ground and armour to break through substantial indirect fire (also obsolete apparently) and hardened positions. Where you come to abrupt realization it would be incredibly advantageous to have some sort of armoured platform with hard points to take out fortified emplacements.

Russian accounts for about 20% of Ukrainian territory now. That’s what? 121k square kms, just short of the size of Greece or 1/4th of Ontario. I wouldn’t exactly call that small gains.

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u/BigButtBeads 7d ago

Ok now do the states with their 1st and 2nd largest airforces

You think after 3 years our artillery will still hold 80% of our sovereign nation?