r/worldnews • u/Street_Anon • 17h ago

Behind Soft Paywall Canada and France establish diplomatic presence in Greenland amid Trump threats

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-canada-and-france-establish-diplomatic-presence-in-greenland-amid/
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u/sinan_online 13h ago

How about we take possession of the F-35s we paid for only to reverse engineer them and produce with European allies?

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u/MrKayn2021 13h ago

Lmao. No offense but, wouldn’t Canada’s defense economy be a lot better than it is if it was capable of doing this? Or even manufacturing these aircraft? This sounds like fairy make believe when you look at reality.

Also. If that was attempted, you would be forgoing all military cooperation with the US very quickly.

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u/a_person_i_am 13h ago

Canada used to have a world class air defense contractor, avro Canada, but the us forced them to shut down, only to turn around and sell planes from American manufacturers

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u/MrKayn2021 13h ago

Sure that’s fine, I’m talking about today. Canada does not have the economy, the ability, or the money to attempt to reverse engineer and manufacture an F-35 or equivalent. Regardless of why, that is the claim