The editor writes: “Canada is much better off continuing with strictly limited international missions, such as in Latvia and Ukraine.” The thought behind this is, apparently, let’s pretend that Russia is our enemy. We aren’t really being useful, especially not in Latvia, but we don’t have to worry about our soliders coming back in body bags or torturing East European kids who break into their camps. This would also seem to be Trudeau’s warped mental calculus, so far as he thinks about such things at all. It doesn’t make any sense. Any military deployment should meet a real defence need; it shouldn’t just be idle sabre rattling to keep up appearances.