With apologies for voicing an opinion rather than linking an external article.
I am of the strong opinion that Remembrance Day had become at best grandstanding, and at worst, completely meaningless. There are phases tossed around like “Lest we Forget” or “Never Again”. But when Russia invaded Ukraine, we have effectively done the opposite (or very nearly).
Sure, we can send ammo so Ukranians can fight back, or host some of their forces for training. But the reality is, we are only marginally involved. We haven’t mobilized. We aren’t on war footing economically.
The root causes are many. But a combination of NATO’s article 5 protection only kicking in if we are attacked (rather than joining an already existing war), and the threat of nuclear retaliation, means we are paralyzed politically.
At a minimum: I would support direct involvement, whether that’s ramping up our own military, deploying specialists, reservists for minesweeping, stationing our own troops (meagre as they are) in Ukraine to directly support the fight. I would actually support much larger actions, including naval blockades or airspace closures but wholly understand that Canada cannot execute those on their own.
We cannot allow genocidal wars to be pressed in the modern world. And we should be doing everything we can about it. Right now, we’re doing barely more than nothing.
You could try a little harder to convince me. I love the insults, so that’s not gonna work for you.
Come on, don’t you want me to go back to your hole where your troll family can rip me to shreds?
It’s okay, not everyone was meant to be intelligent enough to register on matrix.
Same exact insult? Come on, you can do better. You’re disappointing me
It still doesn’t look like you registered, keep trying, we believe in you.
There’s literally nothing you can say that will make me want to wander into any sort of place that you call home 😂
But please do tell me some more about the candy and unicorns you guys have