How do you guys get off bashing the Canadian AF when it is one of the largest and most modern airforce in NATO? The upgraded CF-18’s will be one of the best fighter bombers in the world.
Since we are discussing NATO, we are not talking about teh country’s airforce as a whole, but only those assets which are used to contribute to NATO operations. And the fact remains that Canada’s airforce is currently capable of contributing more to NATO operations than most other NATO countries. This has been proven.
As for threat perception, the fact is Canada has no threats. Who do you think is gonna attack Canada? Russia? China? Muslim terrorists? The chances of another country attacking us is non-existant, and the chances of terrorists flying an airliner into a building are small but we are more than capable of dealing with that. The only reason Canada even needs a military is for contributions to NATO.
So the comments about Canada cutting back on its military are really not applicable here since those cutbacks have not reduced Canada’s ability to contribute to NATO.
Since Canada has no threats, if it was up to me, I would pull Canada out of NATO, pull all Canadian peacekeepers home, disband the entire military, thus saving tens of billions of dollars. A well armed police force and a coast guard is all Canada needs for homeland defence.
Here are all NATO airforces listed in order of capabilities, anyone who disagrees with even a single entry in my list just try and refute it, I will tear down your arguments so fast you won’t know what hit you:
1) USA
2) UK
3) France
4) Canada
5) Germany
6) Turkey
7) Greece
8) Italy
9) Poland
10) Norway
11) Netherlands
12) Spain
13) Romania
14) Czech
15) Denmark
16) Belgium
17) Portugal
18) Slovakia
19) Bulgaria
20) Hungary
21) Slovenia
22) Lithuania
23) Estonia
24) Latvia
25) Luxembourg
26) Iceland
These lists are pointless needless to say, childish. Are there any objective criteria? No, there arent. However, I will raise a hand and say that France is definately on top of UK and Greece on top of Canada. Having a break, time to grow up, now.
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