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Fuck yeah! Canada will vote with its dollar!
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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Heck yeah. Go Carney.
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Can I interest you in a Eurofighter Typhoon?
Me personally? I'd love to say yes, but I'm a bit skint atm.....could I get it on IOU?
Okay, make some space in the drive and I'll bring it over later.
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Seems stupid to buy defense resources from a country that could become hostile. Do any European companies have anything to offer? I get that GOS and a lot of resources are still probably going to come from the USA but right now, the less the better.
It also seems stupid to keep importing on a mass scale the culture, news, entertainment, media, and media platforms of a country that wants to invade Canada. Yet here we are.
I would be thrilled if all American social media was blocked 100%. Sweep the trolls back into their caves.
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The Swedish Saab Gripen would be a good choice. It would include assembly and maintenance in Canada.
I read somewhere they operate with a licensed American engine, and that some European nations are trying to replace it with a non-American one.... Yeah, it's a development of an F-18 engine.
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Canada could do the funniest thing rn by buying J-35s at half the price.
It would be funny, but damn I would not want to buy military equipment from china
USA: We want to annex Canada. We are not joking
Canadians: Ooh China is very scary.
China is Canada's second biggest trade partner, unless they're planning to follow America to war with China, what's the problem? Especially because it's for a military that was designed for the singular purpose of defending itself from an American invasion over the last 70 years.
The Canadian public isint ready to swallow it yet but that's where it's going to end up at. China and Iran have been preparing for this scenario for the last 20+ years.
They have all the kit and more needed, and in the right quantity too. In time. People still don't really belive Trump would push the button. The closer he gets the more open to this reality people will become.
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Yeah, those are definitely safe from tampering.
The purpose of buying jets from someone other than America is to reduce America's influence over Canada, why would China sabotage that?
Edit: Why is this controversial? Do you think America tampers with the weapons we send to Taiwan?
The US can remotely disable an F-35.. China, I'd expect can do the same for a J-35.
I don't think the above poster doubts their ability, only that they might be less incentivized to do so compared to, say a country that has repeatedly voiced their wish to annex Canada.
Nobody expects China to remotely disable J-35's on a whim... But they might do it as they prepare to invade Taiwan.
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Something we can train on and maintain within our borders please.
He's keeping up decorum but yeah these jets are done. You can't buy military equipment from an enemy and the jets would have to be serviced in the USA over their lifetime.
maybe don't rely on fighter jets than can possibly be disabled remotely by someone talking about invading you
It always seemed strange that Canada would agree (how much arm twisting?) to buy a plane that won't work well in our Arctic. We are committed to buying 16 jets but it would probably be better to buy the rest elsewhere or put our money into homegrown solutions. Maybe drones or other machines.
Excuse me sir, may I interest you in Gripen? Cold weather tested, fascist free, and oh so stylish. Book your test flight today!
Maybe we should be looking at what we need for city close quarters defenses and guerilla fighting.
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Messing with the military industrial complex is not the smartest move for Trump. All that will do is turn the military against him.
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Prime Minister Carney, I have several better solutions. Cancel the F-35 and examine the Saab JAS-39 Gripen, Dassault Rafael, or the Eurofighter Typhoon.
Iโm glad youโre doing this, but ultimately sad because love is irrational and I love the F-35.
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