Canadian PM Carney rips up relationship with US with talk of a ‘rupture’

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has told the World Economic Forum that Canada is in a “rupture” with the US, “not a transition”. In a staggeringly frank set of remarks, he described the idea that Canada’s ties with the US bring “mutual benefit” as a “lie”:

Writer and analyst Trita Parsi was stunned; in a comment accompanying a clip of Carney’s speech, he said:

WOW!!!

Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada’s shift towards multialignment [sic] is quite clear – and this level of honesty from Carney on Western “fiction” about the old order will be warmly welcomed in much of the Global South.

Carney marks stark shift

Carney’s remarks came as EU nations started to move troops into Greenland for ‘exercises’ that are really preparations to fight a US invasion. But Canada’s military was also doing the same – Trump has frequently expressed his lust to make Canada a 51st US state, according to Canadian Daily the Globe and Mail.

The paper said military officials, on condition of anonymity, had told it that Canada’s military is “modelling a US invasion”. Canadian commanders expect to be quickly overwhelmed in conventional battle, but are planning “unconventional warfare” to “impose mass casualties on US occupying forces”:

military planners are modelling a U.S. invasion from the south, expecting American forces to overcome Canada’s strategic positions on land and at sea within a week and possibly as quickly as two days.

Canada does not have the number of military personnel or the sophisticated equipment needed to fend off a conventional American attack, they said. So, the military envisions unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military or armed civilians would resort to ambushes, sabotage, drone warfare or hit-and-run tactics.

The aim of such tactics would be to impose mass casualties on U.S. occupying forces, the official said.

This rupture in the joint defence agreement would likely see France or Britain, nuclear-weapon states, being called on to provide support and defence for Canada against the U.S.

In what is also certainly a reaction to the US threat, Canada is rapidly establishing closer ties with China.

Trump’s arrogance and recklessness threaten the world and are already breaking up North America. Yet there is no sign of any resistance, or even meaningful dissent, from the spineless Keir Starmer’s UK government.

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