Cross-border tensions or not, there’s growing talk in Washington that Canada and the U.S. could expand their military co-operation in a continental missile shield.
It came up last week at a U.S. Senate committee hearing, when the top-ranking Democrat reported he’d just gotten positive signals from Defence Minister Bill Blair that Canada could end decades of reluctance to join U.S. missile defence.
Rhode Island’s Jack Reed was talking about U.S. plans for a multi-faceted upgrade to the system — the project is currently nicknamed Iron Dome, a reference to Israel’s existing, albeit vastly different, system.
“I met recently with the defence minister from Canada,” Reed said, referring to Blair’s visit to Washington this month.
“They are very much interested in participating [in this initiative]. They have legal obstacles, but they assume they can jump over them.”
Iron Dome-like defence system is going to be a very expensive with very little return.
US’s border is Canada in the north, Mexico in the south and oceans on its sides, Canada and Mexico wouldn’t fire any weapons towards US because they’re economically tied.
So the only case where Iron Dome-like system is useful is with missiles over the ocean where everyone can see it coming and have time to shoot it down.
Of course this can be useful if US thinks that the enemy will create satellites that can fire missiles