PieFedNORAD pact would change if Canada pulls back from F-35 order, warns U.S. ambassador
HellsBellewww.cbc.ca/news/politics/norad-canada-us-f35-9.…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Canada is warning of consequences to the continental defence pact if Canada does not move forward with the purchase of 88 F-35 fighter jets.
“NORAD would have to be altered,” U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra told CBC News in an exclusive interview at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.
He says the United States would likely need to purchase more of the advanced fighter aircraft for its own air force, and would fly them more often into Canadian airspace to address threats approaching the U.S.
“If Canada is no longer going to provide that [capability], then we have to fill those gaps,” said Hoekstra.
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The US can’t just “change the pact”. It’s a fucking agreement between parties.
What he means to say is “If you don’t bend to our will, we will invalidate the pact and do what we want.”
Pete Hoekstra is a fucking tool and should be banned from Canadian soil.
Good, America has NEVER defended Canada, just its own i terrsts at our loss. Fuck em
We should get our inital investment back since there was no comparisons except between locheed and boeing.
ZDLThe USA “changes pacts” these days more often than Trump changes his underwear. (I have it on the good authority of pulling it straight out of my ass that he does so weekly, whether they need changing or not.) What the fuck kind of threat is “do what we say or we’ll continue doing what we’ve been doing nonstop for a year”?
“Hey, remember when we turned off your allies access to intelligence in Ukraine because our president had a temper tantrum? Or when NATO had to send troops to deter American aggression? Or how we threaten to weaponize every American dependency we can? With all that in mind, how can you buy from anyone but us?!?”
I mean, you are literally threatening to invade them and to welcome their independent movements …
NORAD can no longer even be trusted, although pulling out of it will push them towards NATO and the EU, so thanks in advance.
FreeBooteR69Time to summon Hoekstra for a rebuke. Send him packing back to the Premier diaper Don, the bone spur draft dodging pedo protector.
I think norad is dead.
But if the US wants to lay out some cash as investment, we’ll let them access the readings. Our dishes, our people, but if they pay subscription and capital then they get a copy of the data.
LemmyoutofhereStop reporting what that greasy, racist fucker says.
Greasy racist fucker… and an absolute idiot! Even if Carney thought the F35 was the better choice, purchasing it now would make him look like he was weak and submitted to the bullies. But since idiots are idiots, they keep piping up and shooting themselves in the foot every time.
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Someone should have told the Orange Menace that NORAD would change if one of the two members of the alliance started acting like the enemy of the other.
This is called extortion.
TIL NORAD is actually a sales contract.
And unfortunately no discount code.
Oh no! Anyways….
Don’t do business with a fascist regime.
Fuck them. What good is the F-35 if you have to rely on the US anyways?
If Canada is an equal member partner in NORAD then shouldnt Canadian defence companies have the same bidding rights on US defence projects as US companies?
Y’know as apposed to all of those defence comapnies moving south so they can bid?
Unfortunately this marraige is full of hippcrasy and double standards..
The USA has never had any equal partnership. We have client states, rivals, and enemies.
As a Canadian i am well aware of that, its just a question people should begin to press on now that the facade has collapsed and the empire is in decline.
Extorting motherfucker.
We are not saying we’re buying nothing, we would be buying a trusted partners aircraft, and not planes from an imperialist fascist oligarchy.
Actually that’s not even true.
WE WOULD BE BUILDING OUR OWN FUCKING AIRCRAFT
Good luck getting early warning for ICBMs coming over the polar region, Hoekstra! Dumbfuck.
We very badly need air defences. We don’t have so much as a shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missile, let alone anything long-ranged.
Honestly, I’m increasingly looking forward to the moment when Trump finally fucks off, if for no other reason than I no longer have to hear the shit that comes out of Hoekstra’s mouth. He has the verbal equivalent to the world’s most punchable face.
His face is also very punchable on it’s own.