Hegseth posted a photo of Canadian Army Cadets (a youth program, ages 12-18) captioned "🇨🇦 (this is real)", implying it showed Canada's actual military.

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Hegseth posted a photo of Canadian Army Cadets (a youth program, ages 12-18) captioned "🇨🇦 (this is real)", implying it showed Canada's actual military. Treasury's Bessent also joked about "two submarines from the Edmonton Mall." Canada has 70,000 regular troops, leads a NATO brigade in Latvia, and lost 158 soldiers in Afghanistan.