Prime Minister Mark Carney raised more questions than answers about Canada's position when he said he's not ready to rule out sending troops to Ukraine once the war with Russia ends, experts say.

Internal Department of National Defence reports have warned that current operational demands have the Canadian Armed Forces stretched thin.

National Defence’s annual departmental plan, published in June, cautions that the Canadian Army is “currently at its force generation sustainability limit.”

Canada’s military already has around 2,000 troops deployed in Latvia, Canada’s largest overseas mission, but the army only has some 13,000 deployable soldiers total.

  • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Ironically, Ukraine used to have quite a few nuclear warheads (Soviet leftovers like Russia’s). They were removed and disassembled in the 1990s, and Ukraine is a signatory to the major nuclear non-proliferation treaties. If someone (the US? France?) offered them new warheads now, I don’t know what their decision would be.