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Trump is reportedly taking aim at Canada and raising alarms about its ‘vulnerability’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Both are waste of time and money. US has over 2000 fighter jets. In hand.
The objective is not to win. Winning against America’s imperial might is impossible.
The objective is to make them bleed as much as possible. To make victory as phyrric and as painful for them as possible. And when going up against the most expensive war plane in human history, this means choosing the aircraft that can get as technologically close as possible with as many units as possible on a per-dollar-spent basis.
We can make them bleed much more with 420 fully-functional Gripens than we can with 88 partially-functional F-35s that can be remotely shut down against our will.
The US always wins the invasion but pretty much always loses the occupation.
Air power isn't how you win, because it's hard to hide a jet fighter. Assault rifles, RPGs, IEDs and a willingness to fight longer than they're willing to is what's needed to win the occupation.
Americans forget that Canadians served in Afghanistan. But I don't. I know someone who diffused IEDs over there, pretty sure he knows how to build them if needed.
So? They are attacking Venezuela, Iran (it’s coming), Greenland (ie NATO), AND Canada - they will be stretched too thin and are run by incompetents. The rest of the world dumps the dollar and Us treasury bonds, the dollar is no longer the reserve currency for oil, and they are kneecapped. We do that and disrupt their supply chains and a big part of the problem is solved.
It's a lot harder for America to accept attacking Canada is the casualties will be 100,000 instead of 10,000
And they can't deploy them all at the same time on the same target, unless they risk being vulnerable elsewhere