Re: [GZG] Grossly Off-topic ANZAC Whining

Perhaps it should be noted, that I suspect that 
John is railing, not against the quality and 
fortitude of the Commonwealth soldiers he's 
talking about, rather that the policies of those 
governments have cut their spending and numbers 
to the bare minimum. Canada got so bad that they 
had 15 tanks spread among 3 bases across Canada 
for a time. That's total in the entire "Canadian 
Forces". One of my friends bitches up a storm 
when that period's force 'design' comes up along 
with the government responsible for the changes. 
The same goes for the Australians I know.

Frankly, I find the policies of those past 
governments and their continued paltry 
contributions to be far below what those two 
countries provided in years past. Hod does it go? 
"Canada fed the UK through it's darkest hours, 
it's chromium armed and armoured the allies, it 
had the second largest Airforce in WWII, the 
third largest Navy. Canada used to have an 
aircraft carrier, now they have the CBC, I think 
we lost something somewhere."

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