It’s going to be 3-6 months before manufacturing of basic stuff will start to be brought back in-house.

True.

But if an existing factory happens to have some unused capacity, re-tooling to make a similar product that wasn’t previously economically viable to make might be a fairly quick possibility.

Well, now, yeah.

Maybe that’s why Trump wants to annex Canada - to get a shortcut to his buddy Putin

America isn’t “protecting Canada”, it’s using Canada as a buffer between itself and Russia.

Keep your eyes out for people adding “Canada” to the name of the company.

American companies have been doing that in Canada for my entire lifetime.

It’s been a concern since (at least) the 1970s.

as I understand it we will get the rights to make replacement parts and do the repairs to the European ones.

That should be the default for any military equipment.

Having our armed forces reliant of the goodwill of some other country is a risk to the military ability to do their job.

I would like to see Canadian cable TV replace (at least some) American channels with international ones from the other English speaking countries.

And delete Faux news entirely.

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Yes, I know the number of homes with cable continues to shrink, but it’s still got a massive installed base.

As if being “woke” is a bad thing anyway.

Better than sleepwalking into fascism.