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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Canada is becoming more and more demilitarized (much like it's European counterparts), plus as far as military budgets they probably couldn't afford to do it anyways.
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The military just got it's budget doubled yesterday in the budget, albeit over 5 years.
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Originally Posted by daswig
Old Neville showed the futility of appeasement. Appeasement is the concept of feeding your friends to the tiger, in the hopes that he'll eat you last. And Pakistan and India didn't have a long-term peaceful relationship until they both developed nukes...they'd been spasmodically whacking each other for decades.
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Give old Neville a break.
He was nobody's fool. He knew there was going to be a war, but he also knew that Britain was in no position to fight and win that war. Under old Neville Britain had the biggest military build up in her history.