I agree with Cybercoma that the more integrated countries are the less likely they are to fight each other. I don't agree that having a capable military means you are more likely to go to war. Quite the opposite. An imbalance in strength is what tempts countries to go to war. The world was never more ready to go to war than during the Cold War, yet it didn't because both sides were too strong for either to profit from a major war.
Russia doesn't have the ability to project a great deal of its power across the Arctic Ocean and neither does the US for that matter. Canada doesn't need the ability to defeat Russia or anyone else in an all out war, it needs to be strong enough to make invading us more trouble than it is worth.
Proxy wars and regional conflicts will be with us for the foreseeable future.
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