kEiThZ
Superstar
I am happy with Canada's level of support. We need to be doing more to build up our own military however.
I'm not. Being the C student in a class of D students still makes you a C student. It's basically the US and to a lesser extent that UK and Poland carrying this war. And we wonder why adversarial powers like China and Russia think the West is weak.
We could do more and some of it would be doing ourselves favours. Send them our tanks and all our M777s and start replacement projects. We know towed artillery is less useful going forward anyway. Our tank fleet is a mess that is close to aging out. They'll be more useful in Ukraine than here. And would be a masterful diplomatic stroke in pressuring Germany, even if we just offer. We need to consider more modern tanks anyway. Heck, we could send our entire fleet of 500 relatively new TAPVs and I assure you nobody in the army would really miss them. Widely acknowledged to be a poor decision for the CA. We could just buy more LAVs from London to backfill.
Other than equipment, I'd like to see a more long term commitment. Like say $150M/mo in budgetary support to Ukraine's government. And if we aren't willing to part with the above kit, maybe $100M/mo in a common NATO fund to buy the Ukrainians the weapons they need. $3B per year is less than 1% of the federal budget and would make a massive difference in Ukraine. Knowing what the long term support is will let Ukraine plan more aggressively with what they have on hand.
Ukraine's partners need to start thinking about how to help Ukraine win quickly. Otherwise, the longer this goes on, the higher the reconstruction bill, refugee crisis and economic drag on Europe.