On a sweltering July morning at the Farnborough Airshow—a venue where defense contractors gather to sell multi-billion-dollar death machines while eating lukewarm lukewarm sausage rolls—Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveiled its latest triumph of corporate audacity: the ELLYON.

On paper, the ELLYON is an engineering masterpiece. It is an all-in-one electronic warfare platform built to jam enemy radar, intercept radio chatter, and let artificial intelligence coordinate air strikes while the crew sits comfortably hundreds of miles away.

In reality, it is also a masterclass in geopolitical gaslighting.

Buried inside the glossy brochures handed out to diplomats was a hilarious little detail: the base airframe chosen for Israel’s next-generation electronic attack plane was the Bombardier Global 6500—a plush, ultra-long-range luxury jet manufactured on an assembly line in Montreal.

This created an immediate, delightfully awkward crisis in Ottawa. For months, Global Affairs Canada had been standing at the international podium, beating its chest about strict military........

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