Instead of grumbling about Canada’s defence spending, Americans should look in their own backyard

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For 2023, the U.S. Defense Department’s budget is an astronomical US$816-billion. The total exceeds the military budgets of the next ten countries combined. The American spending triples that of China. It’s about ten times that of Russia. The arms race is no race at all. The U.S. laps the field many times over. But the gargantuan gap is still not enough. Congress is planning yet more major increases for the insatiable Pentagon. Does that make sense? Recently we’ve heard the usual bellyaching from south of the border about Canada’s military spending, about the country not carrying its weight. The focal...