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Buy our fighter jets or we'll send you fighter jets
Everybody calm down. USA and Canada have an agreement allowing them to enter each other's air space. They said that if Canada doesn't buy enough F-35s USA will have to send more jests into Canada's airspace to fill in the gaps. That's it. It's not "buy our jets or we will invade you". It's "if Canada doesn't buy F-35 we will have to do more work in our agreement".
But why isn't Canada allowed to use whatever other jets it buys for that? Why does it have to be American made f-35s?
But Hoekstra warned that if Canada chooses to purchase Saab’s Gripen E jets, the U.S. would still need to reconsider how it works with its northern neighbor on security.
“If they decide they’re going with an inferior product that is not as interchangeable, interoperable as what the F-35 is, that changes our defense capability,” Hoekstra said.
“And as such, we have to figure out how we’re going to replace that,” the ambassador added.
They are just saying that if Canada changes its plans US will have to adapt. Looking at what's happening in Greenland this can be somehow considered as a threat (if you can't defend yourself we will have to take over...) but it's really a stretch. US will probably decide to deploy more F-35s there or something which makes total sense.
This community really needs a clickbait title flagging process.
Our media needs to fucking quit the click baity titles.
The process is RTFA :)
Cute, but its obvious everybody checks replies first and you do so specifically to avoid giving clicks to bad actors so they can draw people in to sell ads
Bad headlines will get worse if you RTFA after falling for the clickbait. The incentives are fucked.
That's why some of us have to do the hard work of reading before replying.
Which is why a flagging process creates a better incentive loop and reduces stupid incentives.
You are right. The title is so misleading and I can't believe someone with the title journalist on their resume wrote it.
They've used everything they've learned to twist the words into bait
Title is bad. Is there a not a moderation rule for summarizing articles with clickbait titles in this community?
This is an article about NORAD.
See rule #4!
What
Buy our fighters jets or we invade with fighter jets ?
What absolute fuck is wrong with this country
Still think he's sane?
wut.
If you don’t buy from me, I’ll bomb you.
pretty classic US negotiating technique, actually; just normally used against "brown" countries.
Yeah but they also threatened to invade Greenland / Iceland (because apparently they're the same country). That didn't end up happening so I don't think Canada has a lot to worry about.
So if they don't buy any we're just gonna give them out free? That's dumb.
The Art of the Deal.
This is just....bonkers.
I mean it's always been like this basically.
But less publicly
If it is the only way to sell US goods..
This is just robbery, we weren't able to make our schedule and modified the price. "$27.7 billion in cost – up from its initial $19 billion."
Yet expect them to just give us $7 billion dollars because we failed to meet the contract?
This is how the mafia works. Its the only business trump knows.
Duh. That's how extortion works.
You think the mob ever delivered anything on time and under budget?
Now I want a short story where the Mob accidentally hires the most effective project manager ever
There's actually an anime where a corporate worker gets summoned into another world because they need him to use his efficiency to get their shit together.
It's called "Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four!", and it's pretty good.
Canada could do something really funny and start buying chinese anti-aircraft missiles.
Close. We should build our own, and if we happen to violate Chinese IP along the way, oh well.
Or just work with MBDA and Thales to set up a domestic production lines for Meteor and SAMP/T. And then collaborate with Europe more on aerospace and defense. And then make some deals with Korea and Poland for some of their hardware that they’re currently churning out. And then set up a joint production and rapid iteration project with Ukraine, since they’re essentially the best in the world at that shit these days. And then talk to France, Germany, Sweden, and/or Japan about getting some attack subs and perhaps SSGNs.
There’s lots of possibilities once you free yourself from the economic yoke of the US. We did kinda wreck your defense aerospace industry (the Avro Arrow was the absolute tits, and it’s a damn shame we crushed the project). But now’s a great time to reinvest in that stuff.
A solid plan.
Could we possibly exchange the F-35s for store credit and purchase some healthcare to send back info America?
It’ll just go to employ more ICE
“Give us money or we will attack you” is generally not something you say to an ally you want to keep. Trump is literally insane, trying to start WW3.
In his narcissistic mind, everyone else is just there for him to exploit. He literally can not comprehend any other way to do things.
It's extortion, the only thing trump knows...
"Buy or weapons or else..." Maybe we should look for a more reliable supplier and close our airspace to their jet fighters.
That’s technically a declaration of war, right?
NORAD already has shared skies provisions. US jets can fly into our airspace as needed to intercept foreign attackers. We can do the same with them.
None of this constitutes a threat, despite Hoekstra's weird, fumbling attempt to deliver it like one.
He basically said "If you don't give us your business, we'll have no choice but to protect your airspace even harder!" Oh, wow, scary. No, please, don't do that.
Call his bluff.