{"id":46953,"date":"2019-02-17T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46953"},"modified":"2019-02-16T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T16:45:49","slug":"when-trump-gets-serious-with-canada-about-defence-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/02\/17\/when-trump-gets-serious-with-canada-about-defence-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"When Trump gets serious with Canada about defence spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloneltedcampbell.blog\/2019\/02\/16\/is-trumps-plan-working\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Campbell<\/a> notes that, despite all the nay-saying, President Trump appears to be getting results with US allies on defence issues. That being the case, he&#8217;s wondering when Prime Minister Trudeau will get the message:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24162\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cougar-AVGP-rear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24162\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cougar-AVGP-rear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cougar-AVGP-rear.jpg 800w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cougar-AVGP-rear-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cougar-AVGP-rear-480x322.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A right rear view of a Canadian army Cougar wheeled fire support vehicle being used as an observation post by soldiers standing watch during the combined U.S.\/Canadian NATO Exercise Rendezvous &#8217;83. Location: Camp Wainright, AB<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>I was <a href=\"https:\/\/coloneltedcampbell.blog\/2016\/09\/06\/sharing-the-burden\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">commenting on this before president Trump was elected<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/coloneltedcampbell.blog\/2016\/11\/15\/trump-vs-the-others-including-trudeau\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shortly after his 2016 election victory I said that<\/a> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>\u201cPrime Minister Trudeau and most European presidents and prime ministers will have to face a newly elected US president who wants them to pay for a bigger and bigger slice of their own defence. Real leaders would do well to recognize that the Americans have a valid point \u2026 some, probably many of them, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, may try to pretend that it doesn\u2019t matter; they will be wrong.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was impressed, then, with how deeply many, many Americans felt about Donald Trump\u2019s campaign message which said that allies were \u201cfreeloading,\u201d and taking unfair advantage of America\u2019s innate generosity \u2026 I was very, very conscious of the fact that, when I was a young man, a junior officer in Canada\u2019s tough, superbly disciplined, well trained, trained, nuclear armed \u201cvest pocket army\u201d (as more than one allied general called us) brigade group in Germany, Canada used to pay its full and fair share \u2026 but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/archives\/entry\/nato-cutting-canadas-commitment\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we stopped, in the late summer of 1969<\/a>, when Pierre Trudeau tried to totally withdraw from NATO and, indeed, from the world.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder when President Trump will send someone like Timothy Betts, the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Senior Advisor for Security negotiations and Armaments in the US State Department, to Ottawa to demand that Canada should pay up after a half century of \u201cfreeloading\u201d on the US taxpayers\u2019 goodwill. That will come as a nasty shock to Team Trudeau and, indeed, to a majority of Canadians who have gotten used to the notion that the Americans will defend us out of the kindness of their hearts. I\u2019m not sure that Canada is next in line, but I suspect we\u2019re on his short list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Campbell notes that, despite all the nay-saying, President Trump appears to be getting results with US allies on defence issues. That being the case, he&#8217;s wondering when Prime Minister Trudeau will get the message: I was commenting on this before president Trump was elected; and shortly after his 2016 election victory I said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,5,13],"tags":[448,1037,220,511],"class_list":["post-46953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","category-usa","tag-canadianforces","tag-donaldtrump","tag-nato","tag-pierretrudeau"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cdj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46956,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46953\/revisions\/46956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}