NORAD commander says Canada, U.S. have lost military edge over Russia in the Arctic

Air Force Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, on April 17, 2018.The head of the North American Aerospace Defence Command underscored the need to modernize the aging early-warning system Thursday, while cautioning that the United States and Canada have lost their long-standing military advantage in the Arctic to Russia.

“Russia has steadily expanded its military presence in the region and, by fielding advanced, long-range cruise missiles … Russia has left us with no choice but to improve our homeland defence capability and capacity.” O’Shaughnessy’s warnings about Russia and China – as well as ongoing concerns about North Korea and Iran obtaining ballistic missiles capable of striking North America – came as he made the case for upgrading the NORAD system.

O’Shaughnessy said some progress has been made in testing new technologies, including a long-range radar that defence officials hope will be able to detect incoming aircraft and cruise missiles in the Arctic long before they reach North America.

I'm building a bunker and going off grid.

Our government can't even control what's going on in canada today .never mind worrying about whether the Russians are flying into canadian air space

Trudeau is too busy giving away borrowed money to ensure our sovereignty. He won’t even defend 🇨🇦from domestic terrorists let alone foreign invaders

But we got new Tikkas?!😦

What? Canada not pulling its Mikitary weight? Never seen that before.

Come on, we just spent some good money on rifles for the northern rangers. We have parts coming in from Australia for jets, or they are jets? We have subs on dry doc ready to go on a ten years notice. Recruiting levels are good. We had a kid come in without his mom last May

Come on, we just spent some good money on rifles for the northern rangers. We have parts coming in from Australia for jets, or they are they jets . We have subs on dry doc ready to go on a ten years notice. Recruiting levels are good. We had a kid come in without his mom last May

Maybe having a muppet for a prime minister isn’t a good idea...

spikesmom4 Canada can always defend our share of the Arctic with our massive submarine fleet.

For quite some time

You mean you could not attack them with impunity as you did so many defenseless countries over last few decades. Yugoslavia, Afgh.,Grenada, Libya, Syria (saved by Ru) and many others. Russia realized you ain't no friend of theirs. Never were never will be. So they R ready

Yep with the re-elected JUDAS

Um, no kidding. Russia has nuclear subs, we have busted garage sale ones. They have ice breakers that actually break ice! What do we have? Poorly equipped rangers on snowmobiles. Not knocking the rangers either, just the effort of the government.

We lost everything, even the morale

Used jets will totally solve the problem.

We can throw parkas at them according to PMJT.

Take your pills on time and Russia will never attack you.

Hmmm, putin is the master here, trump and trudeau are his puppets.

Ya right, US if lost could get it back in a day lol

How about not withdrawing from nuclear treaties

Oh we realized.. There's a way out. If you listen to me. There's no mid way in here. My way. Last offer..

No Shit. 🤣

Justin is a weak leader and laughingstock on the world stage.

Is Greenland for sale?

Lovely

Why isn't increased arctic defense spending a more common topic? Russia is a serious menace and they clearly like to play with the democracies of their rivals to take pressure off. This is topic that needs to be discussed nationally, but with calm and thoughtful dialogue.

Yep, any day now, Russia will attack ... as we've been predicting for about 60 years. The Red Menace stuff never dies ...

Trump is backing away from everything outside it’s own borders and Trudeau is backing away from everything inside its own borders. Twiddle dee and twiddle dumb.

Thanks to Donald trump

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