Thank you!
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.
I don’t often rely on the Mop & Pail for news (because it leans far right and super capitalist) but on this they’re right. We are in more danger than we realize and need to start readying for war.
As a Brit, I’d be interested in how the Commonwealth (never mind Europe) reacted to that…
I hate it but the kings portrait is on all our government buildings, if we get attacked we expect nothing less from Britain than full support and retaliation
We built an awful lot of planes for the Battle of Britain over here, we sent a lot of food, we sent a lot of troops. I’d hope some parts of Europe would be willing to return the favour.
The monarchy has never commented or defended Canada in any way during Trump’s first or second term. I would not hold my breath waiting for the Brits to help us.
The question, is what happens with NATO when one of its members attacks another member? Is everyone else called to war like if a external nation declared war on a NATO member? Would the everyone follow through, or would this situation implode NATO?
Theoretically NATO runs on consensus decisionmaking, so theoretically having even one member not aligned with the rest this would implode NATO.
Realistically, this is not a limiting factor because when consensus cannot be reached, there is nothing stopping the supermajority of members from reaching their own consensus and acting accordingly. Even a small minority is always free to do this, provided as the US proved with the infamous “Coalition of the willing”.
If the US, or any member, turns against NATO, it may be technically impossible to eject them or for it to continue to function as an official organization. However, the organization is not the valuable part of NATO. The members are the valuable part of NATO. Losing a very valuable member like the US would be a blow, but there are many other valuable members in NATO and they would still form a strong collective even without the US. There is no reason they couldn’t immediately reform as “NATO 2.0 with blackjack and hookers” and exactly the same organizational structure, and the problematic member would not be invited to join, and this would be functionally almost exactly equivalent to NATO ejecting the problematic member, so we could probably just keep calling it NATO and say they ejected the problematic member.
Trump will not attack Denmark. He will “merely” assert that the existing US base on Greenland is sovereign US territory. It will not be an attack, it will be a “do something bitch”.
We need to be ready for war
We’re not. Aren’t ready to defend the melting Arctic either. I was getting nervous during the Harper days when Russia flew jets up there now and then to fuck with us. At this point I have nothing positive to say.
I will take down as many Americans as I can before I go, if I even take one I would have done my duty
Agreed. I was born a Canadian, and I’ll die a Canadian. One way or another.
