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To do what? Fly around, wasting tax payer money?
And what with them?
Make them say it.
Whatever it takes to distract from the Epstein files sir!
It's kinda loud in here, did the headline say 'piece of shit fuckface Trump gives Canada reason #563 to stop trading with the US and increase trade with Europe, China, etc'?
Basically: you are getting those F-35's whether you want them or not.
I hate this timeline, but that's funny
So if they don't buy any we're just gonna give them out free? That's dumb.
The Art of the Deal.
With a pilot, apparently.
They're gonna get in trouble for false advertising when it turns out the pilot was a cardboard cutout and did not, in fact, come with the "car."
It does sound really weird, however, the way I see it is both countries are under obligation for defense forces anyway, and already go into each other's air space in order to do this. So, by Canada not buying the jets( Which I agree with that decision at this point because the US has heavily dropped the ball while increasing prices.) that doesn't change the fact that they were counting on those jets for coverage, which means that they need to gain that coverage from somewhere in order to uphold current agreements.
The ambassador was just stating that they will need to attempt to alter NORAD's deal with them because if Canada isn't going to supply the coverage, then if they were to keep the same coverage, the US would have to send more jets in which he is complaining about.
Honestly, the title of this article is clickbait to the point where I don't even think the article title itself is accurate to the article anymore. It's borderline misinformation at this point
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".
Sir, this is Lemmy. We thrive on clickbait headlines here :(
Seriously though. For all of Twitter's awfulness, I think Lemmy could use a similar “reader added context” bubble right below the headline text. A corrective comment doesn’t really fix the engagement the headline gets.
This community really needs a clickbait title flagging process.
Our media needs to fucking quit the click baity titles.
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?
A better question is why buy a shitty jet that even the US Navy rejected?
These turds have been parked in LA on software bugs for TWO YEARS.
They are the Jeep Wranglers of the military.
“Such a nice airspace you have here, it would be a shame if something would happen to it” Also doesn’t say they would invade… still it’s a clear threat.
Putting a correlation on “more fighters jets in your airspace” on them buying more planes that cannot really be used to protect from the US (for software limitations) sounds a lot like a threat.
But, sure, you are technically correct
what's a little extortion among friends.
I was walking past the 7-11 the other day and the manager came out and forced me to buy a slurpee by gunpoint. USA! USA! /s
He said if I didn't, he'd forcefeed a slurpee down my throat, at his expense.
Buy our fighter jets or we'll send you fighter jets
Sounds like free delivery.
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?
Duh. That's how extortion works.
You think the mob ever delivered anything on time and under budget?
"Buy or weapons or else..." Maybe we should look for a more reliable supplier and close our airspace to their jet fighters.
“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.
It's extortion, the only thing trump knows...
What
Buy our fighters jets or we invade with fighter jets ?
What absolute fuck is wrong with this country
Call his bluff.
Would be great if they shot them out of the sky when they crossed over.
I mean, they weren't supposed to be there. So who did the act of war first?
Canada would be dumb to go forward, everyone knows the US has kill switches in their gear and now might hostilely engage canada, perhaps to steal territory, and otherwise has talked of invading other nato countries like in Greenland.
In which case the US could brick all of the gear they sold them. It's already bad enough, Canada has to buy from EADS or whomever builds their air forces, I would not trust the UK either at this point, they are properfucked by their own neoliberal type politicians in labour, that have done more damage than the tories the past couple of years..
everyone knows the US has kill switches in their gear
Because you read it on Lemmy?
There is no kill switch, that would be stupid and a huge vulnerability. The "kill switch" is a metaphor for the supply chain required to keep the jets active. If the US stopped sending parts, the jets would be useless after a few sortis.
If the Americans put kill switches in gear they sold to Canada, that is a reason for Canada to NOT buy more gear with kill switches. Instead, Canada should resecure their supply chain of military equipment.
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.
You know, like you do to allies when the commander in chief isn't a Russian asset.