How could Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ work, and should Canada be part of it? - National | Globalnews.ca
How could Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ work, and should Canada be part of it? - National | Globalnews.ca
Canada's national security will ultimately benefit from participation in U.S. President Donald Trump's 'Golden Dome' missile defence plan, policy experts say.
The irony is, the only country that has EVER, in Canada's entire history as a nation, shown any intent or interest. either by word or deed, into attacking Canada is ... the United States of America.
No other country has even hinted, ever, that it wants to or will or is planning to attack Canada the Nation.
England and France had a tiff over who would control the land that would be called Canada, and both ended up having a partnership in the new Nation of Canada. After that, they showed no interest. Well, maybe a comment or two from Chuck DeGaul.
Not even in either of the two World Wars.
In fact, it was not until the mid 1940's that America proposed that Canada and the United States should be friends and partners in the military sense. Before that, we always had a healthy fear of the military intentions of America towards us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdensburg_Agreement
And here a slightly different bias
https://tbaw.ca/2024/05/08/the-ogdensburg-agreement-part-i-introduction/
It’s farcical simply based on how outdated the plan is. Sure ICBM’s… Plus the only enemy we had was the US. Pretty dumb to join up with the only country who has threatened us in the past and in the present. Not rocket science, ok it is but still a dumb idea to do anything with the new fascist US.
The inclusion of Canada in his "golden dome" is not to keep Canadians safe. It's to keep support out when he decides to invade Canada. Canada must say NO.
- It can't.
- No
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It can.
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Yes.
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The fact of the matter is, now as then, America will not tolerate an enemy on it's Northern Border, and the rest of the world knows this.
America HAS to defend Canada against foreign aggression, as their main defense against what the Germans did in the Schlieffen Plan during both world wars.
Apparently, young-uns today do not know what the Schlieffen Plan was. When Germany attacked France, they went through relatively undefended and relatively weak Belgium to reach around the French flank. The Belgium-France border was undefended. Any country seriously thinking of invading the US would first attack either Canada or Mexico, then go through and attack the US through this relatively undefended border, instead of attacking the US directly. The ONLY reason another country would even think of attacking Canada would be to just pass through and attack the US.
If the Americans did not stop them in Canada, the entire US would be vulnerable. The US-Canada border is just too long to defend completely. That was the entire purpose of the Ogdensburg Agreement.
The ONLY reason another country would even think of attacking Canada would be to just pass through and attack the US.
Exactly.
Which goes to show how laughable Trumps claims of Canada riding on the US's coattails for protection are.
They're not protecting Canada from attack, they're using Canada as a buffer/shield between them and Russia.
Same as they have since the DEW line was first proposed back in the '50s
Golden dome, regardless of what it is, whether upgraded NORAD monitoring or an actual shield would be magnitudes more expensive without Canada's cooperation.
Another 5-D chess move. The administration's strategy is so sophisticated, no one will ever figure it out!
The US administration strategy is knee-jerk upon knee-jerk upon knee-jerk. They have band-aids patched over leaky band-aids so deep, they forget what the original wound looked like.