The motivation is simple, and ancient: empire. Saturday marked the formal debut of an imperial America, led by a president who recognizes no law, save that of the jungle. Already, Mr. Trump is turning his attention elsewhere, saying in an interview Saturday that “something’s going to have to be done with Mexico.”
Every country in the Western Hemisphere should be worried, particularly this country, which Mr. Trump so obviously covets as a 51st state.
The phrasing isn’t as alarming but the sentiment is the same.
Is it? So far all I’ve seen from these US threats is our government use them to pass bills that increase and quicken resource extraction, bypassing environmental protections and alike.
5% increase in military spending with no new tax increases, just reductions in civil service sizes.
They’re basically using this to frighten us into giving our oligarchs everything they’ve wanted.
Yeah, that’s a major downside. That said, the threat is real. Probably more an economic one than military, but nevertheless they are capable of forcing us to give them our resources to extract and exploit our labour to line their oligarchs’ pockets. So I think it’s good to acknowledge the threat but we need to respond with strengthening our economy, production capacity, self-reliance, and most of all - our social cohesion via getting more of what we produce into the hands of the workers that produce it. Chances are our government won’t be going in that direction since it’s not profitable for their largest donors, but we have to work to force them to.
E: When I say stronger economy I don’t mean what Carney’s doing, trampling the environment and people to line oligarchic pockets. I mean an economy that benefits working people much more than what we have now. Directly via higher wages, indirectly by producing more domestic goods, providing quality universal care and so on.
What’s interesting to me is that Canadian MSM is now saying this out loud.
Fight, flight, or freeze. How would you respond? How will you prepare for one of those three?
It’s not the globe saying it.
They’re still publishing it. Which is more than before.
How about this?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-sunday-editorial-venezuela-warning-for-canada/
The phrasing isn’t as alarming but the sentiment is the same.
That’s crazy indeed. I think it’s a positive development in some regards.
Is it? So far all I’ve seen from these US threats is our government use them to pass bills that increase and quicken resource extraction, bypassing environmental protections and alike.
5% increase in military spending with no new tax increases, just reductions in civil service sizes.
They’re basically using this to frighten us into giving our oligarchs everything they’ve wanted.
Yeah, that’s a major downside. That said, the threat is real. Probably more an economic one than military, but nevertheless they are capable of forcing us to give them our resources to extract and exploit our labour to line their oligarchs’ pockets. So I think it’s good to acknowledge the threat but we need to respond with strengthening our economy, production capacity, self-reliance, and most of all - our social cohesion via getting more of what we produce into the hands of the workers that produce it. Chances are our government won’t be going in that direction since it’s not profitable for their largest donors, but we have to work to force them to.
E: When I say stronger economy I don’t mean what Carney’s doing, trampling the environment and people to line oligarchic pockets. I mean an economy that benefits working people much more than what we have now. Directly via higher wages, indirectly by producing more domestic goods, providing quality universal care and so on.