"John T" wrote in message
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Martin Hotze wrote:

Joint forcs? NATO? any other treaties? no idea.
maybe it is not hte Canadians who jam the signal .. no idea.

The Canadians are evaluating GPS devices for handling signal
interference/degradation/jamming. They will be jamming the signal in a
relatively limited area. The US isn't the one turning off the signal to
their country. This was apparent (at least to anybody with a modicum of
reading comprehension) from the very beginning of the COPA article.

The US isn't violating any treaties here and are continuing to provide the
GPS signal. You can snidely comment on their motives all you want, but
the
fact remains that the US has borne the price of the GPS system entirely on
their own and make the signal available to the rest of the world in an
effort to avoid another catastrophe like KAL007.

Bull**** - It is difficult to stop making the signal available to the rest
of the world, but doing so is a good reminder of how accurate the US can
target its missiles when it wants to bomb someone.