Canadian and U.S. involvement in conflicts in the last couple decades proves neither has a clean record, yet the West is quick to chastise Russia for its misdeeds.

Our soldiers can teach recruits drills and weapons handling, but there is no way we can make them willing to die for a corrupt regime.

Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley were reported to have been exposed to the same nerve agent as a Russian double agent and his daughter in March.

Justin Trudeau’s message at the NATO summit next week needs to reflect the reality of Ukraine’s growing trend of far-right violence.

The Canadian government is considering shipping a supply of weapons to Ukraine.

The latest call for sleeping bags comes after a camo mix-up in Afghanistan and a lack of flak jackets in the ‘90s.

We ought to pack up our soldiers there before our good intentions do any more harm to the region.

No Ukrainian official has yet been able to explain how faking Arkady Babchenko’s death could possibly save him from future attacks.

The book’s subtitle implies that somehow one conventional clash with the Taliban 12 years ago saved Afghanistan. It didn’t.

It’s not worth spending an arbitrary percentage of our GDP to prove our commitment to NATO. The blood and gold we expended in Afghanistan should have more than proven our resolve.

If we are in it, it should be to win it. Otherwise it is just senseless political posturing to curry favour at the UN.

We say our military is protecting Canadian values. In that case, we need to tell Ukraine and Latvia that glorifying the perpetrators of the Holocaust is not a Canadian value.

If the Toronto killer had yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the rampage, one can bet it would have been labelled terrorism.

Asking Western leaders to show proof supporting their allegations doesn’t make you an ‘Assad apologist’ or a ‘Russian propagandist.’

On the verge of a battlefield victory, why would Syrian President Bashar al-Assad be so stupid as to employ the one weapon that almost guarantees the condemnation of the world?

Syria’s president never asked them to deploy, and the U.S. hasn’t formally declared war with any country since the Second World War.

Canada and other Western countries should review their own military records before casting a barrage of stones Russia’s way.

It’s not likely to be as dangerous as Afghanistan or Vietnam. But the question remains: what do Canada and the UN hope to achieve?

Any smart Russian agent wouldn’t use a Russian-produced nerve agent to off someone. This isn’t James Bond.

With Canadian soldiers deployed to the Baltic country, Canada ought to speak out against the March 16 parades there remembering soldiers who fought with the Nazis.

The chief of defence staff said a band playing in the back of the plane was ‘team-building and ‘not a party’ but ‘a mission.’ That’s a lame excuse.

It would have been impossible for them to hear no evil, see no evil, or smell no evil on the raucous December flight.

Einstein’s definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. The West does that in conflict after conflict, resulting in increased violence and instability.

The defence minister’s elusiveness would appear to indicate that the Trudeau Liberals don’t have a clue what to do now that Canada’s allies are fighting each other. Canada had a hand in Mosul’s fall from Daesh, and it must now help in reconstruction.