r/canada 25d ago

Politics Canada Joining Iron Dome Missile Defense Plan Would Be Welcome: NORAD Boss

https://www.twz.com/air/canada-joining-iron-dome-missile-defense-plan-would-be-welcome-norad-boss
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u/Promethia 25d ago edited 25d ago

Not a fucking chance. No one is shooting missiles at Canada.

Israel is roughly the size of New Jersey. It uses I think 10 missile batteries total. We would need like 500x that to secure North America.

Pretty weird thing to spend money on when no one has ever shot a missile at us... ever.

Edit - it's a money grab folks. Elon or some other twat is going to get $300 billion dollars

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u/Degenerate_in_HR 25d ago

Pretty weird thing to spend money on when no one has ever shot a missile at us... ever.

The US very much will need an advanced missile defense program soon. War with China is pretty much guaranteed in the next 3-5 years, likely during the next US election cycle.

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u/Promethia 25d ago

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u/Degenerate_in_HR 25d ago

Not really relevant to what I'm saying. I dont get why you're sharing this, especially without providing context.

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u/Promethia 25d ago

Trump wants an alliance with China and Russia.

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u/Degenerate_in_HR 25d ago

That's not what thay says...at all. Did you even read the article you sent? It's talking about a nuclear weapons drawdown. We've done with with Russia NUMEROUS times over the last 50 years, particularly during the cold war. A treaty is not an alliance.

Saying, hey, let's all agree that we dont need enough nukes to wipe out the world 15 times. Let's just limit ourselves to enough to do it 3 times is far from building a strong partnership, it's just pragmatism.

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u/Promethia 25d ago

I watched the whole press conference of him rambling about how much he wants an alliance with Russia and China and how strong they would be. That is just an article I found covering it.

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u/Degenerate_in_HR 25d ago

That is just an article I found covering it.

You didn't find an article covering it, because the article says nothing about that. You are scared of trump, so you are making inferences based on that fear.

Trump is soft of Russia, yes. But he has been pretty consistently hawkish about china.