Commentary One good thing about having an atrophied military, you’d think, is at least it would be easy to staff. But you’d be wrong, in Canada anyway. The Canadian Press noted blithely the other day that we’re about 12,000 short of our feeble target strength of 100,000. Not to mention the 10,000 unavailable through illness, injury, or lack of training. So hey, let’s ask them to do everything including deliver COVID shots. I shouldn’t have to point out here that with a major crisis brewing over Ukraine, and the Chinese Communist Party pondering invading Taiwan during this distraction, it might be helpful to be able to fight. But in Canada sometimes it seems that it is. So allow me to mention that Putin has about 100,000 troops massed on Ukraine’s border alone, out of his one million heavily armed active service and two million reserve personnel. Some may say yes, …
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