
(Hat tip: Greg M.)
This is the perhaps best illustration that Trump’s new “Monroe doctrine” is objectively achieving the exact opposite of what it intends. https://x.com/sarobertsonca/status/2011870022868594985/video/1
Carney is currently in Beijing describing a “new era of relations between Canada and China” and explicitly talking about both countries becoming “strategic partners” on a comprehensive range of issues, including “issues on security.”
There is no overstating how extraordinary this is to anyone who’s followed Canada-China relations in the past few years. Canada was probably THE country globally most aligned with the U.S. when it comes to China.
As a reminder they literally abducted the daughter of Huawei’s founder on the U.S.’s behalf and held her hostage for years despite severe Chinese retaliation – all in service of Washington’s containment strategy.
So for all intents and purposes Canada used to actually embody the Monroe Doctrine in practice: they were all-in on the US! And now Trump has achieved the extraordinary feat of changing that calculus, impressing upon Canada that HE was the threat and that they needed to hedge their US exposure.
I mean, imagine telling anyone during the Meng Wanzhou episode that 4 years later Canada would be in Beijing, asking them for a strategic partnership on security matters while America threatens to annex it 😅
Who says it wasn’t deliberate?
But, for that matter, who cares?
If Donny manages to achieve Pat Buchanan’s dream of an isolationist America out of Europe, NATO, and the end of the GAE, I will be grateful to him, even if, like Gorbachev, he didn’t achieve his stated intentions. I am also grateful to Gorbachev for dismantling the Soviet Empire, whether or not he intended to do so. 🙂
Most people don’t want a “diverse, dynamic” multicultural “mosaic”. Reform’s base don’t want to live in Lebanon, or Lahore, or a Leviathan state that makes incoherent ethnic and religious groups play nice. They want their country back. And if Reform will not meet that reasonable demand, there is no point in supporting it. This liberal guff about “Christians, atheists, Hindus, Jews, people of all sexualities, genders, and ages” agreeing on a values-based proposition — a “shared mission to serve and save our nation” — is the same sales pitch given by Blair, Cameron, May, Johnson, and Sunak for replacement migration. “Modern Britain” is a horror show. We don’t want it anymore.
0 seats! For any traitor party, be they Cons or Reform.
An empire that flails around threatening its long-term allies, renaming things like the ‘Gulf of America’ and the ‘Department of War’, is just showing its late-decline stage, with bombastic useless rhetoric, all symbolism over substance. Pathetic.
About time to MAiD this patient.