I recommend putting a brief description of Postmedia Network somewhere noticeable on that post. Sort of like an abstract for an essay, maybe.

I mean yes but i also do not want a real war. Fascists looooove war. Americans too.

They lost the receipt so they can only get 50% store credit

He'd be OK with that.

Sell them to Cuba.

There's a problem with the engine. It's an US design and the US just blocked a sell to Colombia. I think Saab should make another design with the Typhoon engine or some other European engine that has roughly the same size and push.

The biggest issue would be stopping sharing spares. Given the current government's proclivity for using any leverage they can get their hands on.... Well.... I'd be nervous if I'd bought them.

Saab Gripen

The fighter from the 80s?

It was a serious finalist, and that's even more impressive when you considered that our airforce went into the bid already knowing they wanted the F-35.

They kept the bid's website up, and IIRC basically said "we're around if you change your mind".

I remember someone saying that countries don’t have friends, only interests

Charles de Gaulle. He was full of shit on that one, though. Countries have domestic politics.

The problem is that in the event of a conflict with the US, those jets would be entirely unusable because they'd shut them down. And we'd be billions of dollars down.

It would be better to spend that money elsewhere, even if it's out of date, than to have nothing.

At that point China, Russia and America will be at their 6th

Well thats what we need to be putting our money in right now (speaking as a european). Even if america does not turn full authoritarian in the next 4 years and we get them back to our site, we can not sit this out right now. We need to be able to fight for our own interests, thats one of the few things Trump is right about (even though it is simply an excuse to drop us).

100%. The USA is absolutely not to be trusted. It is a friend to itself only.

Canada should cancel the order and invest in nukes and drones.

Europe doesn't have a 5th gen fighter, and they're beholden enough to the US that they did nothing when we blew up their natural gas pipeline, forcing them to buy our natural gas at exorbitant prices, during winter and are trying to fund our war even after we've stopped. America's other vassals aren't going to help you stop America.

China exports the J-35, Russia exports the Su-57. Making Lockheed stock crater when even Canada abandons them would light a fire under more congress member's asses than anything else you can do.

Then again, it's not like GD, LM, and Boeing would ever let their politicians fuck up the bag.

I think Canada needs to accept a stopgap measure - the Gripen, Typhoon, Rafale, or Super Hornet - and dive headfirst into GCAP. FCAS is tempting as well, but GCAP is farther along and the countries are probably closer in goals to Canada.

I'm not sure how serious your comment is but anyway...what you're describing is a decades-long reorientation of military doctrine and procurement strategy. Getting a different multi-role fighter is already a huge expense with lots of ramifications but no need to throw the baby out with the bath water.

Edit: IMO, if you really wanted to alter air force strategy to deter the US, you should look to Sweden and Finland who have been facing an asymmetric threat for decades. Aquire the Gripen, train with the Swedes in how to run and operate a distributed air force of small independent units capable of generating and performing missions from random roads in the woods.