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- world@lemmy.world
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- world@lemmy.world
President Donald Trump left out a key detail this week when he outlined his plans for a massive missile and air defense shield over the continent: He can’t build it without Canada.
Ottawa has historically funded about 40 percent of NORAD investments, according to VanHerck, and is putting $38 billion into the command to add new radars in the north over the next two decades. Without those investments — and additional sensors that can peer over the North Pole — officials believe the U.S. will have trouble putting together a credible North American air defense.
We should charge them rent and a user’s fee. Fee to use our airspace. Per flying object they send over it.
Maybe the world UN organization would come up with a method to tax any EMF radiation sent over one country by another for purposes of obtaining data? We now have the technology to detect and track this back to source.
Oh. And it’s only ever staffed by Canucks, and they’ve all got kill-switches; like actual power-off switches.
I really think I’m done with hosting non-commonwealth soldiers here. We’re not 2020 Greenland.