They keep saying that the kill-switch is a "myth" knowing that the buyers and operators don't have access to the code. Why people don't just state the obvious that this is insulting intelligence, and demand apology from the kill-switch denier, I don't know.
You're going to confuse the people on here who think Canada doesn't have a military or any money to buy stuff. Of course we need to reconsider any purchases from the US.
I think there is too much concern for the thoughts of the dim-witted around here. Obviously Canada has a military that's comparable to European national armies and it has to reach a vast territory. The possibility of a kill-switch is fine if you're deeply confident the US won’t turn against you. But an eighty-year alliance has just been wrecked, not by accident, but by two converging ideological campaigns. One was internal. After Nixon, Roger Ailes, Gingrich, Weyrich and others set out to reshape the American electorate, making it more pliant to their political goals. This meant prioritizing emotional engagement over rational discourse, cultivating resentment, and fostering distrust in institutions. Reframed "liberal" as a dirty word (Atwater, Ailes) Turned Christianity into a GOP loyalty test (Weyrich) Made politics a zero-sum war (Gingrich) Nationalized culture war issues to distract from policy failures (Buchanan, Schlafly) Built a right-wing media ecosystem to sustain it all (Murdoch, Ailes) Then, after the USSR collapsed, ex-KGB figures, possibly starting with Putin, seized the opportunity. They didn’t have to start from scratch. Americans were already primed for ideological subversion. Russian influence simply weaponized the divisions that had been deliberately nurtured from within, accelerating the shift toward disinformation, tribalism, and institutional erosion. The Russians simply enhanced and accelerated the provokatsiya happening for decades. The result? A population demoralized, resistant to facts, and increasingly detached from the alliances and values that once defined them. Anyone still assuming the US is a stable, trustworthy partner, needs to reconsider.
Our military ad private defense contractors have been overchargin the U.S. taxpayers for years.... millions of dollars for consulting fees, equipment, plans and the cost of planes and tanks etc... We should make it true competitive bidding and get GE, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, etc. to get off the subsidies and charge comeptitive prices for equipment and services. You wont see dump do that because of the billions in contributions to campaigns..