Venezuela – Die Lektion für Kanada
https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/venezuela-the-lesson-for-canada
Venezuela – Die Lektion für Kanada
https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/venezuela-the-lesson-for-canada
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No statement from Carney yet.
Perhaps he’s also been kidnapped?
Only CPC statement so far seems to be a tweet from Lantsman, supporting Trump’s actions.
The most important part of the article for those who do not understand how Trump is essentially declaring war on the international order and implicitly, on Canada’s sovereignty as well:
“If the United States normalizes unilateral force, it signals to authoritarian leaders that aggression is once again an acceptable instrument of statecraft. This erodes the UN Charter’s foundational principle that disputes must be resolved peacefully and that force is a last resort. The United States helped build the post‑war legal order. It cannot selectively abandon it without consequence.”
Commented in another similar post – Canada needs to negotiate and manage Trump with the realization he has no guardrails. Militarily, there is absolutely nothing Canada can do. Even a full decade of full out military expansion would not even get us close to slowing down US military action. Economically, we can diversify, but again, a decade might get us from 75% to 50%.
We need to be strategically important to the US and also ensure the cost of the US making that importance a „permanent“ situation needs to be higher than the benefit.
Welcome to the new world order.
People seem to forget, Canada is so massive, it is impossible to invade and hold a military occupation or a successful operations.
Something Canadians forget.
The defenders of un-elected radical socialist dictators that refused to give up power even after clearly losing an election are coming out in full force I see.
Typical of the hypocrisy on the far left. Funny how they had a very different opinion in January 2021.
Trump was just on Fox News‘ Fox and Friends saying that Mexico and their President Shenbaum could be next because many drugs „come from the southern border, but also some come from Canada in case you didn’t know“.
It was illegal when Russia attacked Ukraine. It’s illegal when America attacks Venezuela.
Don’t expect to see any ‚I Stand With Venezuelans‘ on our buses or any other Canadian chyrons. We make excuses for anything America does.
I’m not sure I follow the argument on the ‘rules based international order’
I don’t think this ‘signals’ the dictators of the world that they can do what they want, they all did it anyways.
Iran Venezuela China and North Korea already flouted the rules based international order by trading in sanctioned oil, Russia already invaded Georgia and crimea long before trump, Iran pursued an illegal nuclear weapons program for years and funded terrorism across the Arab world, The old Syrian regime used chemical weapons on their own people.
Venezuela was already flouting however many international sanctions which countries were happy to support but did next to nothing when they were skirted – but now cry fowl when someone enforces them.
I think for many countries, what was keeping them from invading their neighbours ‘some of the time’ was the threat of military force – primarily from the US. Just before it was done with a thin veneer of international law and ‘rules based international order.
I’m not saying I agree with the US actions here – what I am saying is claiming that this subverts ‘rules based international order’ is a little silly. It didn’t exist for these countries in the first place – they only recognized force.
It won’t happen, and Id rather not, but Canada needs nukes. This behaviour, and the outcomes of Libya vs North Korea seem to point to towards it being beneficial.
Surely nobody should be surprised right. The breakdown of international order didn’t start here. It was already clear where we were headed since the US doubled down their support of Israel: the complete breakdown of international law and order.