Linked National Post on purpose. Given their bias I believe they’d present the worst case scenario.
E: Apparently the article is from 2016 so the cost is likely higher today.
Linked National Post on purpose. Given their bias I believe they’d present the worst case scenario.
E: Apparently the article is from 2016 so the cost is likely higher today.
I’d be hoping that Trump’s time in power would be far outlived by the F-35 program and would be only a footnote in the history of friendship between Canada and the US. But nobody who knows what the future has in reserve.
Trump won’t outlive the F35, but the distrust of the US will.
The US cut off military supplies to a country (Ukraine) during an active conflict. Trump did this as leverage in a negotiation. That’s a line that can’t be crossed, and he crossed it. There were no articles of impeachment, and most Americans didn’t pay it any mind. So this is how Americans do business now.
So we should expect the US to use military supplies as leverage in negotiations going forward. Using US equipment means CAF’s readiness is in constant peril for the foreseeable future. Currently it’s at the whims of a deranged old man. But it will always be a bargaining chip for future US Presidents.
The only way to ensure CAF readiness is to end the use of all US equipment. It’s not solely about Trump, it’s about what the US has become.
Significantly. The F-35 programme is a 50-year one. Trump won’t even be alive in half that.