Ukraine crisis and how Canada should respond

 When this whole Ukraine crisis started appearing on the news, and Russia looked ready to invade, we kept threatening them with sanctions.  Well, it didn't work.  Why?  Because President Putin is a man that respects strength, not politicians who speak loudly and do nothing.  Instead of training our children to compete and survive on their own, we tell them math is racist, let them smoke weed, and now even build housing for them.  None of this BS happens in Russia.  Russians are told they have to fend for themselves, that they have to work for a living, and earn their homes.  In a nutshell, it's why the Russian army is willing to obey Putin and attack Ukraine.  Therefore I think we need to make minute changes to better project an image of a nation that isn't going to just bend over and take it from behind all the time, based on these two guiding principles: Reintroduce common sense into the education curriculum : What is this BS that math is r...

 The first thing is to ensure Canada can get more troops to Europe, and to protect the shipping routes so Canada can continually send troops to Europe.  Since protecting the supply lines is more important, as it ensures a continual commitment to NATO, I cover that first. Protecting supply convoys to NATO : Based on this map, there appears to be four choke points where the Russian navy, and its submarines, must pass through to intercept reinforcements shipped into NATO from North America (paths marked in yellow): So the choke points are quite obvious from above, but I marked them in green to make it extremely obvious as where Canada and the US need to position their ships for monitoring Russian submarines and intercepting Russian warships: The four choke points in my opinion are: 1)  From Greenland to Iceland. 2)  From Iceland to Finland. 3)  From Norway/Finland to Denmark/Poland. 4)  From Greece to Turkey. Covering off these choke points would be crucial to...