I’m wondering what everyone else thinks is in our future as Canadians?

Do we think Trump is going to be stupid enough to try to invade Canada or redraw border lines?

Will the trade war continue for years or will Trump wuss out like last time?

We we continue to buy US products after they’ve now screwed us a second time?

I know I’m in the camp that whatever happens, I’m planning on completely excluding the USA from my life as much as possible.

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    16 hours ago

    I so hope those F35s do not come to Canada, I know it will be a learning curve that pilots and mechanics will have to under go if we get the other ones but as I understand it we will get the rights to make replacement parts and do the repairs to the European ones.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      4 minutes ago

      as I understand it we will get the rights to make replacement parts and do the repairs to the European ones.

      That should be the default for any military equipment.

      Having our armed forces reliant of the goodwill of some other country is a risk to the military ability to do their job.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      6 hours ago

      I hope they do - the 16 we’ve committed to buying anyway - and that as soon as they arrive our engineers immediately start taking them apart so that we can incorporate their technology into our own planes or planes produced by our actual allies. The ones we don’t take apart can be used in exercises to determine the best ways to shoot them down.