U.S. warns Canada of potential negative consequences if it dumps F-35 fighter jet

https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/us-warns-canada-f-35-fighter-jet

46 comments

  1. In my lifetime as a Canadian, I never thought I would ever hear the US president say he wanted to annex us. And repeat this over and over again. But here we are 🙁

  2. Always with the threats to a sovereign nation and erstwhile ally.

    Trump and his cabal of oligarchs, kleptocrats, fellow fascist travellers and compromised politicians are odious, feckless, craven and corrupt.

    The quicker that we can unwind our previously tight interconnected economies, our previously common social and cultural norms, and move away from a now authoritarian and nihilistic Amerika, the better.

    Take the pain, get away from the absolute train wreck that the US has become.

    Obscene.

  4. I certainly would feel comfortable trusting a nation that has openly stated their intentions to annex me with my national security needs.

  5. Uh, guys, time to get the memo. We’re dead to them. You can’t out stubborn a Canadian. They live with moose.

    (Pssst personally still love you guys up there. I am sorry for all this. You don’t deserve it.)

  7. Quite the sales pitch, threats if you don’t buy the product. No wonder the thief-in-chief has had so many bankruptcies.

  10. You can’t deal with the US as long as Trump leads it because he breaks all his deals. The world should just look at the US if it’s no longer there and work around them.

  12. All you need to know. It’s a statement by this guy:

    Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada

  13. >NORAD, he claimed, requires both the U.S. and Canada to fly the same kind of American-built planes.

    New rule, just invented.

    Either that, or you Canadians have been breaking the rules for decades.

  14. The orange guy said that ‘murica needs NOTHING from Canada. That includes our money.

  15. Let’s do what Spain did. We don’t want these jets.

  16. You’ll buy my product or else? That sounds very mafia-like.

  17. I never heard of anyone wanting to buy a product when the seller threatens them. Imagine a watch seller tells you if you don’t buy this watch, there will be negative consequences. You’re going to march right out of there!

  18. Fuck trump and fuck the consequences. That’s what you get for attacking Canada. So far Canada is doing just fine. Cutting the us out of as much business as we can

  19. Nothing says “good friend” or “family” like the never-ending stream of threats. Americans use those descriptors to describe Canadians — meanwhile, they elect someone who promotes the polar opposite. Why is that, I wonder…

  21. Canada should do what’s best for Canada. Just ignore Trump like the Chinese do, it works.

  22. It is for no other reason that I now favor the Gripen. Bonus in that we can build it here through the deal Sweden was offering. If the US wasn’t moving towards fascism, F35 all the way plain and simple, a no brainer. But these threats are just absolutely insane.

  23. Please, oh please Canada, buy European. Trump is going to try to fuck Canada at the next USMCA negotiations regardless. Trying to appease Trump goes nowhere and the more Canada disconnects from the US the better. He has made it abundantly clear he has no respect for Canada, and believe us when we say the feelings are mutual.

  25. If that was stated like that, it would now be a question of principles to cancel all orders.

    Go bully elsewhere, US.

  27. Or what? You’ll release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths, and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?

  29. Lol the US is becoming more of a joke every single day.

    No one likes you and no one respects you.

    Get your shit together.

  30. LOL, Trumps threatens to further tank the US economy….

  32. Why enter into a long term contract with a counterparty that’s threatening you before you even started?

  34. You’d better not leave us or we’ll prove how much we don’t need you – Abusive ex

  36. Negative Consequences????

    I mean TACO has already stated that he want’s to TAKE OVER Canada.

    How much More Negative can things get.

    Besides Putin is going to get TACO to leave NATO anyway

    Come On Canada…It’s Elbows Up or Ankles Up

  37. I am so fucking embarrassed to be an American.

    Keep the elbows up, Canada.

    All I ask you is to understand that there are still millions of Americans who are (constantly) protesting, messaging, calling, organizing. We just happen to be overrun with total, fucking morons. And it’s not going to get better any time soon.

  39. So we HAVE to own a plane that the Americans can just turn off at will?

    No thanks. Go fuck yourselves. 

  40. See the latest GAO report on F-35 & its programmatic clusterfucks. Canada, find some other longer-range, more dependable jet.

  41. Fuck him. Chances are they’d back door the OS so that they could control our planes. Fuck that noise. Buy anywhere but the United Snakes of America.

  42. Oh no! More negative consequences! Like our actions have effected whether we’d have those at all since Trump got elected.

  43. We know the “negative consequence” for Canada is the U.S. oligarchy will just increase taxes on normal American people again and then chicken out in two weeks?

    Release the Epstein files.

  44. Lets halt all electricity, oil, aluminium, potash, lumber exports to the USA immediately.. and yes lets purchase other fighter aircraft… so the USA learns the meaning of SHORTAGES.. and can revisit if they want to charge tariffs on goods they import from us.. Trump can go fuck himself

  45. I’m so tired of donOlds demands and threats. Carney should dump the remaining F35 order, tax the US online companies and move on.

    We’re already getting new cars from Mexico, and if they dump that stupid tariff on Chinese EVs we’d be able to move away from tesla and the big three. After all, whenever we bailed those companies out, they take the money and shut down the operation in Canada.

    Let’s get the Gripen, make it here and have an actual working airframe rather than an overpriced pos brick.

  46. It doesn’t make sense to proceed with the F-35, apart from the threats, the Saab Gripen offers better value for our money and is also closely integrated with NATO operations. 

    Get rid of the order immediately and send out a press release that Canada does not take kindly to threats from our allies and anyone that does threaten us will face consequences as evidenced. I say this as a Canadian, it’s time to sever business ties with companies that are associated with a hostile regime and reward trusted partners. This is the equivalent of buying military hardware from North Korea, the backdoor allows the hostile power to disable equipment you paid for, a complete no go for me and I hope we really aren’t that stupid.

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