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Canadians: Greenland must be the line in the sand. Non negotiable.

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[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

When will the rest of the world ? Not a peep from my shitty governemt here in Australia, we just keep doubling down and buying weapons from the US, nuclear submarines of all the stupid things.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hey cousin!

We just bought some over the horizon radar from you guys!

Unfortunately we're also contemplating buying some locked down F35s that are sure to be kill switched by the US when they decide that they want our resources. I think we need to accept that the F35s are not going to happen, and instead get the Gripens. At this point it's seems like the height of stupidity to trust them, especially with our military hardware.

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Locked down planes? Install Arch Linux on them

I fly arch btw

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, that combined with the big servicing challenges for the F35s really makes me think getting them isn't the right move. For once the glacial pace of Canadian military procurement helped us.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So much money already spent on them for nothing. Brutally wasteful.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

In this case we should consider that money spent determining how to avoid giving up our sovereignty.

Hopefully we dodged a bullet.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

As is Canadian tradition. It is not even the biggest waste currently in military spending.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

You're gonna need that submarine if you go to war with your biggest trading partner at the behest of America.