I don't know... selling the gold reserves, making our economy dependent on oil exports, dismantling the passenger rail network, selling off the crown corporations, letting the economy be dominated by oligopolies, selling many of those to foreign investors. Canada has made some pretty big strategic mistakes.
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That question is at the heart of Canadian defence planning today—and our acquisition of the F-35. Do we develop capacities that reduce reliance on the US by acquiring the ability to work with others and be more self-reliant? Or do we bet on Trump as a temporary blip, trusting that sanity will be restored, and thus resist throwing away the benefits of decades of close interoperability?
Except we are talking about a plane that is more like an iPhone than something else with more control.
The real problem is the delusional thinking that Trump and his regime are going away after his term.
They’re not.
Trump is just a symptom of what’s going on in the US, not the cause. The US will be the same even after he is gone.
Well. That depends on how the gone happens.
I choose the gone that gets us back on track to representative government and social democracy
I'm not sure thats on the table for Americans. There are options that are much better and much worse–but that ground is salted and burned.
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90% percent chance he won't live to 2028, but there is no shortage of assholes to replace him.
A plane that even the US Navy rejected. It's a lemon, delayed for years on software issues, and by US law, they have to have remote kill switches.
That does sound like quite the bargain!
Bribes really do good.
So good.
You want to buy a slightly used Land Rover?
So an iPod developed by Tim Cook?
No more F-35s, they’re only good for scrap metal.