Trump Billed Canada $61B for His Missile Shield. The Shield Doesn't Work Without Canada.

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On May 27, 2025, Trump posted that Canada would pay "$61 Billion Dollars" to join his Golden Dome missile shield "if they remain a separate, but unequal, Nation" — or "ZERO DOLLARS" as the "cherished 51st State." The Prime Minister's office said no such offer was ever received. Canada's UN ambassador called it a protection racket. And the invoice left out one detail: the Golden Dome cannot exist without Canada. The shortest route for any missile aimed at America runs over the North Pole and through the Canadian Arctic; every warning the US has ever received has come from radars on Canadian soil — the DEW Line, the North Warning System, and the Arctic over-the-horizon radars Canada is now building with $28 billion of its own money. NORAD, the only binational military command on Earth, has a Canadian deputy commander and will run the Golden Dome's detection layer. As former NORAD commander General VanHerck put it: "The biggest thing they offer is terrain." In this video: seventy years of

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