But don't take my word for it:
A new poll suggests that more than a quarter of Canadians — 27 per cent — now see the United States as an “enemy” country, while another 30 per cent still say they consider the U.S. an ally.
Did the US force a carbon tax on us, or lock us down for two years under flimsy premises, or freeze bank accounts, or run the economy into the ground?
Wow.
Considering this, it makes the impotent rage against the southern neighbour look completely petty and unnecessary.
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If securing the Arctic is not a priority, perhaps one should ask why:
Ultimately, if the Americans control the sea lane between Greenland and Iceland, and also control the Panama Canal, that would hermetically seal the U.S. from naval attack by the Russians.
From a geostrategic perspective, Bannon says, Canada needs to be added to this equation because the Arctic is already experiencing “a great power struggle between the Chinese Communist Party and the Russians up there.” Canada used to be secure in the Arctic but that is no longer the case. The Arctic is now Canada’s soft underbelly. Trump sees that and wants Canada to be part of the united hemispheric defense.
The U.S. and Canada fought for Europe in two World Wars and helped in the Cold War but now North America has to look out for its own strategic concerns, particularly the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party. As mentioned, the greatest vulnerability now is in the Arctic. “That’s where it all comes together. It’s a great power struggle and President Trump is bound and determined to secure the United States from that and that’s why I think Canada is a central part.”
“If you look at the logic of us united geo-strategically in a hemispheric defense, the logic speaks for itself.” Therefore, “don’t look at Canada separate from Greenland and from Panama because it’s of a whole piece about hemispheric defense.”
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