Posted on 06/11/2025 5:22:14 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
Summary and Key Points: The nearly $9 billion cost increase for Canada’s F-35 acquisition, bringing the total to $27.7 billion, is not the real scandal; it is a symptom of a deeper “strategy shock.”
According to a recent Auditor-General’s report, this “sticker shock” is less concerning than the fact that Canada lacks a coherent plan to support the jets.
Key basing infrastructure for the F-35s will not be ready until 2029, years after the first jets arrive in 2026, and the Royal Canadian Air Force already faces a severe pilot shortage, raising serious questions about the nation’s ability to operate its new fleet effectively.
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If Canada cannot protect itself nor afford to, then they should just become the protectorate of the US..............
Imagine being do beholden to another country and its technology for your own defense. Scary. And we are practically there with China.
As the tail wags....where does that leave Europe and Canada. Rome is falling. Only Christianity will survive, tortured as it will be.
When you let others defend you, you become a desperate whore, unavoidably.
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This!!
“If Canada cannot protect itself nor afford to, then they should just become the protectorate of the US.”
I don’t want to pay their bills, though.
Maybe Canada and us need a good scare to get the military things rolling.
A protectorate pays it’s own bills and governs itself. The only difference is that their military sovereignty protection is provided by another country...................
Sadly, the F-35 is a Gold Plated fighter program.
For decades the military could house, maintain, and operate fighter aircraft with reasonable hangars and work spaces.
Today, every F-35 squadron of 15 aircraft spends more than $1 billion in fancy hangars and workspaces. It doesn’t really need it, but the gold plating rips off the taxpayers because there are no stops, no limits, and no oversight on spending anymore.
Even the gate guard shacks on Air Force bases are multi million dollar fancy structures. Private businesses rarely see such spending, and certainly your own home doesn’t.
My buddies and I used to go to Windsor, Ontario for the “Canadian Ballet”. Many years later we realized what a waste of money it was, and that if we tried that today, we’d be hauled off coming back in and so would the car. Back then, the guy at the US border would ask where we had been, what we did and how long we were there. In one particular instance, the answers we gave were “At the p*ssy bar!”, “Got f*cked up!” and “Too long!”. We never did have a problem coming home, not even then.
Buy drones instead.
Just the Prairie Provinces, maybe the NW Territory. Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes can sod off, for all I care. . .and British Columbia is effectively an extension of Washington State. .
The F35 is just a poor platform.
What does Canada need a military for these days?
I did my calculations thanks to AI so if Canada wants to become our protectorate, we should charge them $110 Billion per year. We get to use their air space and we will make sure that China and Russia wont be encroaching on their territory.
If they refuse to cooperate, we should kick them out of NATO and we'll raise tariffs on their economy.
We live in the real world. There are consequences if you do not have a viable military. Which is why South Korea is maintaining a robust military after the end of Korean War. It took Ukraine a while but they do have a military now. If they had a huge military after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Putin would have been less likely to invade Ukraine.
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