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You're shadowbanned btw. Vouched because this seems to comply with guidelines. Edit: gone again. I tried. But yeah your past 2 years of comments are all [dead]
by jakear 4y ago
You're shadowbanned btw. Vouched because this seems to comply with guidelines.
Edit: gone again. I tried. But yeah your past 2 years of comments are all [dead]. Not sure if you knew that.
- eli 4y agoThe comment is off topic hyperbole about politics.
- jakear 4y agoThe question of why US forces are being called upon to shoot objects in Canadian airspace is hardly off topic on a post about US forces shooting down objects in Canadian airspace.
- jakear 4y agoThat said, the claim that Trudeau has slashed funding doesn't seem to be backed by this source https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/military-spending-defense-budget https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/military-sp... The question of why the US was called to shoot this is still open.
- rpeden 4y agoDue to NORAD, Canada and the continental U.S. are a shared air defense zone. In this case, USAF had been tracking/following the balloon since before it crossed from Alaska into the Yukon, so they although F-18s from Cold Lake had been dispatched, the U.S. F-22s already on-scene took the shot.
- mrguyorama 4y agoCanada has openly encouraged US air power in it's air space since the cold war. They really like the idea of sharing defense with the US. We have a bunch of early warning radars in their territory, and share lots of info about them.