SOURCE: "There is Zero Chance Canada Buys F-35s From the United States, Now. ZERO."

Why the F-35 Is Dead, the Gripen Is Coming, and Trump Just Forced a Line in the Sand

Why the F-35 Is Dead, the Gripen Is Coming, and Trump Just Forced a Line in the Sand

There is zero chance Canada buys F-35s from the United States.

Not “low.”
Not “under review.”
Zero.

And after yesterday’s bullshit, Ottawa isn’t even pretending anymore. That, from a source in Carney’s Orbit.

Within the next one to two weeks, Canada is expected to announce a massive domestic manufacturing deal with Sweden’s Saab, producing the Saab JAS 39 Gripen on Canadian soil — officially walking away from Lockheed Martin and its endlessly delayed, politically compromised F-35 program, regardless of Trump’s threats.

This is not a procurement story.

This is a trust collapse — and it’s global.

Trust Is the Only Weapon That Matters — and the U.S. Lost It

No democratic country in the world — not one — is lining up to place new military equipment orders with the United States right now.

Not in Europe.
Not in the Western Hemisphere.
Not anywhere that still pretends rule of law matters.

Why?

Because Donald Trump has made it explicit:
American weapons come with political obedience clauses, and allies are now treated as assets to be pressured, not partners to be protected.

You don’t buy fighter jets from a regime that:

• Threatens allies with force

• Brags about seizing sovereign territory

• Uses sanctions, logistics, and intelligence as leverage

• Openly fantasizes about conquest — including Canada and Greenland

Weapons are not neutral.
They are software, supply chains, maintenance pipelines, data routing, and kill-switch politics.

And Trump just told the world he can’t be trusted with any of it.

The F-35 Was Never the Problem — Who Controls It Is

The F-35 isn’t a bad aircraft.

It’s something worse.

It’s a dependency platform.

Every F-35 outside the United States relies on:

• U.S.-controlled software updates

• U.S.-approved maintenance schedules

• U.S.-governed mission data files

• U.S. political goodwill to remain combat-ready

In other words: if Washington gets angry, your “sovereign” air force becomes a museum.

That model only works when your ally is stable.

Trump is not stable.
His proxies are not stable.
And the U.S. military-industrial complex is now fully politicized.

Canada buying F-35s in 2026 would be like giving your house keys to someone who just threatened to burn it down.

Denmark and several other countries (Finland too) are currently reviewing their contractual options for their F-35 purchases now, too. WHY?

Greenland.

Venezuela.

Trump.

Why the Gripen Terrifies Washington (and Shouldn’t Scare Canadians)

The Gripen was built for one thing the F-35 was not:

Democratic independence.

Sweden designed it knowing that superpowers cannot be trusted forever. That supply chains fail. That alliances fracture. That sovereignty requires domestic control.

Gripen advantages Canada actually needs:

• Full technology transfer

• Domestic manufacturing and sustainment

• Rapid maintenance from dispersed bases

• No foreign kill switches

• No political veto over deployment

This isn’t just a jet.

It’s permission for Canada to say no — even to the United States.

That’s why Washington hates it.

SAFE Changed Everything — Quietly, Permanently

Last month, Canada didn’t just “diversify.”

Canada cut the cord.

By signing onto the EU’s SAFE defence framework, Ottawa effectively exited the American military-industrial orbit and re-anchored itself inside European democratic production networks.

SAFE enables:

• Joint manufacturing

• Shared financing

• Integrated logistics

• Collective defence industrial capacity

Translation:
Canada no longer needs U.S. weapons to meet NATO obligations.

And that’s before we even get to what’s coming next.

Greenland Was the Moment Europe Stopped Pretending

When Trump said — publicly — that he plans to take Greenland within “20 days to two months,” something snapped.

Emergency consultations began immediately.

Canada, Denmark, France, and the EU are now actively discussing NATO Article 4 and the unthinkable follow-on: NATO Article 5.

Let that sink in.

A sitting U.S. president triggered serious NATO contingency planning against the United States itself.

That’s not hysteria.
That’s adult threat assessment.

Boots on the Ground Isn’t Escalation — It’s Enforcement

At the same time, Canada is preparing to announce “boots on the ground” in Ukraine alongside the UK, France, the EU, and the Coalition of the Willing — as part of a non-negotiable peace enforcement framework.

This is not symbolic.

It is a line drawn in concrete.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Paris right now meeting with European leaders because the post-American security order is no longer theoretical.

It’s operational.

If You’re Canadian and Scared — Don’t Be

This is what competence looks like.

Canada is not isolated.
Canada is not exposed.
Canada is not improvising.

We are:

• Moving defence production home

• Locking into stable democratic supply chains

• Embedding with Europe’s security architecture

• Reducing risk, not increasing it

Chaos is loud.
Strategy is quiet.

And for once, Ottawa is being very, very quiet for the right reasons.

Trump Kidnapped Maduro — and Told the Hemisphere What’s Next

The kidnapping of Venezuela’s president wasn’t just illegal.

It was instructional.

Trump didn’t hide it. He escalated it, calling US ownership of the Western Hemisphere “rebranding” the Monroe Doctrine as the “Donroe Doctrine.” He threatened to repeat kidnapping heads of state to steal natural resources and destroy sovereignty in every country across the Western Hemisphere.

That forced every democracy — including Canada — to accept a brutal reality:

The United States is now a non-zero security risk.

You don’t plan defence policy around hope.
You plan around capability and intent.

Trump supplied both.

The Easiest Exit Ramp He Refuses to Take

All of this could stop.

The panic.
The realignment.
The rupture.

There is a remarkably simple act Trump could take to begin restoring trust:

Release the Epstein files.

But accountability has never been his move.
Coercion is.

So Canada adapted.

Final Word: The Line Is Drawn

The F-35 is dead in Canada.

The Gripen is coming.

Europe is aligned.
Canada is anchored.
And the era of blind faith in American power is over.

This isn’t anti-American.

It’s pro-democracy, pro-sovereignty, and pro-reality.

And in the next two weeks, the world is going to see just how serious that line in the sand really is.