There’s something almost poetic about the F-35 debates playing out on opposite sides of the Atlantic. In Canada and the United Kingdom, two of America’s oldest and most deeply integrated allies, the fifth-generation fighter jet has become less a question of capability than of national identity—and an excuse to avoid the challenging work of actually thinking strategically. The common thread? Neither country seems to know what it wants its armed forces to do. Both cling to delusions of sovereignty while outsourcing tough decisions to budget cycles, procurement lobbies, and political mood swings.
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