Canada Mulls Sending Ukraine 80K+ Rockets from the Cold War

Since February 2022, Canada has committed over $2.4 billion in military assistance to Ukraine and $3.5 billion in financial and humanitarian aid.

An SUU-5003 bomblet dispenser adapted to fire four CRV7 rockets. Four rocket tubes are visible, while shackles for six practice bombs are located underneath. Given both stores, pilots can train rocket and bomb fire on a single sortie. CC BY-SA 3.0 Marcelloo — Own work

If you’re in the States, Canada doesn’t often get the credit it deserves for being a key security partner and close friend of free people everywhere.

Instead, many Americans simply blame those polite, hockey-playing, moose-loving, free-healthcare-having people for all our cold weather in the winter — as if there were some diabolical Mountie plan to funnel arctic air to lower latitudes.

But the reality is that Canada is a valuable member of the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance and has been ideologically aligned with US principles for the better part of two centuries.

They’re also going to have a front-row seat to watch the 2024 election shit show that’s about to unfold in the US.

(I hope they are preparing for the influx of American refugees ala Handmaid’s Tale when Trump wins and starts his ethnic cleansing campaigns.)

Now, Canada’s Department of National Defense is considering the possibility of giving Ukraine 83,303 CRV7 air-to-ground rockets.

Several years ago, the federal government signed a contract for the destruction and disposal of these…