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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

I think that’s how a proud alliance should feel.

I don’t look at Ukraine as a child state, I see them as our cousin, but the kind of cousin who you wrestle with and teach new moves to and learn from.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago*

The details can be debated, but this is good overall. Drone warfare is the next stage of warfare and any country who doesn't realize that is going to be in for a rude awakening. Sending them to Ukraine allows us to battle test them without moral objection

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 point 11 hours ago* (2 children)

Ottawa pledging to send one-third of Canadian-made drones to Kyiv

One third? It ought to be more like nine tenths. Producing a lot of drones is a pointless waste of resources unless they're going to be sent where they're needed. When it comes to national defence of Canada itself, research and development of better drones might provide a much better return on investment compared to actually producing them in quantity.

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[–] Scotty@scribe.disroot.org [S] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

I am not so sure whether return on investment is the sole - or even most important - point here. First, Ukraine will need production hubs outside the country because they can't be attacked by Russia; and second, Canada needs own production capabilities for its sovereignty (European countries like Denmark have been establishing similar hubs, some of them also in cooperation with Ukraine afaik).

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 10 hours ago

Building up Canada's industrial capacity to build things is exactly the kind of "return on investment" I had in mind. There are better ways to do that than buying loads of military hardware that will sit in warehouses while it goes slowly (or perhaps quickly) obsolete. You know, unless we're aiming to gain any possible advantage no matter the cost in a war that's going to start next year or something.