A central campaign promise, the building of an over two trillion dollar missile shield would be costly, ineffective, and unnecessary.
  • tracker@sh.itjust.works
    71·
    7 hours ago

    You are so wrong… the most direct route for a missile attack to US from Russia passes over Canada, hence the location.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      23·
      6 hours ago

      They could still put it along the US border but it doesn’t make sense for the US to shoot missiles down on top of themselves

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        10·
        6 hours ago

        That’s such a stupid take. They put it as far north as possible so they could get as much notice as possible. Even today it takes time to respond and you need as much as you can get. Even today, shooting down a ballistic missile at high hypersonic speeds with multiple warheads is much easier the earlier in flight you can shoot