(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Canada was considering his offer to be part of his planned Golden Dome missile defense project.
Trump said if Canada remains a standalone nation, it will have to come up with $61 billion to get protection from a space-based missile defense system that the U.S. military has yet to build.
“I told Canada, which very much wants to be part of our fabulous Golden Dome System, that it will cost $61 Billion Dollars if they remain a separate, but unequal,Nation, but will cost ZERO DOLLARS if they become our cherished 51st State. They are considering the offer!,” the president wrote in a social media post.
Trump has repeatedly said he wants Canada to become the 51st state of the U.S. Canadian leaders have been less than receptive to the idea so far.
Trump’s comments came after King Charles III visited Canada on Tuesday to open the nation’s parliament. The king vowed to “protect Canadians and their sovereign rights,” but didn’t mention Trump.
Trump wants to build a $175 billion missile defense shield that would protect the U.S. and Canada using multiple layers of defense against diverse potential attacks, making it much more complex than previous missile defense proposals. The Golden Dome would also include space-based sensors and interceptors, which the president said would be able to intercept missiles “even if they are launched from other sides of the world and even if they are launched from space.”
The president said the missile defense system would be operational before he leaves office in 2029. Trump’s plan is loosely modeled after Israel’s Iron Dome – but on a much larger scale. Israel’s Iron Dome defends a nation the size of New Jersey against short-range missiles built in underground tunnels. Trump’s system would protect a much larger area – North America – against more challenging threats, including intercontinental ballistic missiles and hypersonic weapons.
Experts have said Trump’s cost estimates and time schedule are optimistic. The project faces complex challenges and political risks, as The Center Square reported.
I’d rathr thye PAY!
And they have plenty of money to pay that they make off the Uranium mines that Hillary gave the Russians that we now have to pay for Uranium from Canada. They should have been made part of the USA manifest destiny back in the revolutionary war days that Canadians were too timid to join us in. Now they get all the protection of American strength for free living under our nuclear umbrella. When they start cozying up to the CHinese we will wish we had embraced them back in 1776.
Good point. BUT there’s plenty of things we SHOULD have done back in the day, that’s biting us in the butt now days..