Canada should call foul on dodgy drone narrative

It is difficult to fathom why Canadian media outlets unquestionably parrot the U.S. narrative that a recent drone interception was an unprovoked act of aggression by the Russian air force.

It has been widely reported that the American drone downed over the Black Sea was a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, an airborne execution machine, writes Scott Taylor. Photograph by Chris Hunkeler/Flickr

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

March 20, 2023

OTTAWA—On March 14, Russian fighter jets intercepted a United States military drone over the Black Sea, off the coast of Crimea. According to U.S. officials and the video footage released by the Pentagon, the Russian pilots aggressively buzzed the drone and twice doused it...

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