They do NOT cost us nothing. Here's a few ways it costs Canada:
- it justifies illegal warfare and disinhibits military adventurism
- it undermines international law and international institutions
- it vindicates extremist and arbitrary militarism as somehow effective
- it destroys Canada's credibility and narrows our capacity to intervene in the international stage
- internally it alienates and marginalizes part of our own population
- it entrenches conspiratorial thinking and distrust in our democratic institutions
And I'm not even getting into the ways it costs us because it's a disgusting and just plain fucking wrong to applaud this completely pointless war that rained down death and suffering to countless innocents, both directly and indirectly.
And all that for what? For sucking Trump's dick which he's already forgotten anyway? Give me a break.