New Canadian Politics Thread

The interesting bit here isn't the author's "conventional wisdom" bit regarding the scaling back of the F35 order. It's that Saab offered GlobalEye with the Gripen's as part of a package. Given that we just agreed to the GlobalEye purchase, that may show where we're going with the overall move.

I wonder which engine they will have?

Trump’s “kill switch” comment made this inevitable. The attacks on Canadian sovereignty sealed the deal. He’ll use any leverage available to make us subservient. Even if a literal remote kill switch is impossible, it would be profoundly foolish to trust the viability of our air defence to the US. They control delivery, they control supply chains, parts, service, etc. And they can get fucked.

manny said:

Trump’s “kill switch” comment made this inevitable. The attacks on Canadian sovereignty sealed the deal. He’ll use any leverage available to make us subservient. Even if a literal remote kill switch is impossible, it would be profoundly foolish to trust the viability of our air defence to the US. They control delivery, they control supply chains, parts, service, etc. And they can get fucked.

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It’s pretty simple—the United States under Trump and for the foreseeable future is the number one explicit threat to this nation’s sovereignty and security.

In that environment, sourcing one of the centerpieces of our defense procurement from them would be flat-out insane. Like Taiwan buying their next generation fighter jet fleet from China.

May as well take the 16 F-35’s we’ve already paid for, if the US ever delivers them, but not a single one more than that.