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I'm not sure it's about "appeasing Trump", so much as "making money". Defense contracts pay well, and there is a significant portion of the Canadian manufacturing industry that relies on that income.
The unfortunate truth is, no matter who you sell weapons to, they are eventually going to be used to kill people. That's what they're for.
Now imagine if all that labour and resources that go into weapons industry was instead directed towards things like building affordable housing, infrastructure, providing healthcare, and so on.
You don't see any difference in selling weapons to Israel vs selling them to Ukraine?
Basically, the Likudnik government in Israel is a big welfare teat for the weapons industries. We the taxpayers see our money taken not to improve living conditions at home directly, but to subsidise selected harmful (weapons-making) industries by way of “aid to Israel”. Now, this helps the people who own those industries and are invested in them and work for them, but it doesn’t help the rest of us any — not like it would if it were invested in our health care system, or schools, libraries, public transit, carbon reduction.
Be a politicians, have friends who work in arms manufacturing.
Send aide in the form of money, taken from tax payers, to a different government.
That government uses your donated taxes to buy arms from your buddy.
Your now rich friends make your life easier with their freshly laundered money.
Yeah. There can only be one reason. Let's not ask in case there's a second reason that doesn't help our agenda.
Did I read that right?
What was the rationale?
The worst is the Bloc Quebecois