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US is shifting foreign policy to increasingly treat alliances as conditional and transactional. Canada can no longer assume historical goodwill or that shared
by CGMthrowaway 5mo ago
US is shifting foreign policy to increasingly treat alliances as conditional and transactional.
Canada can no longer assume historical goodwill or that shared institutions will automatically anchor the relationship.
It's up to Canada to strengthen its own defense capacity.
We are in a post-, post-WW2 environment. Time to realize that. As well, fifth gen warfare (information warfare), gray zone warfare etc are now the name of the game across the world, not just US. Economic, military and diplomatic issues are inevitably intertwined. Forget about what you knew. Canada has to think more holistically about how its economic and security policies intersect
- Zigurd 5mo agoThis is sanewashing an irrational and incompetent policy on the part of the US. New amount of "holistic thinking" can paper over what Trump has done.
- CGMthrowaway 5mo agoCalling it irrational doesn’t change the reality of the strategic shift underway
- Zigurd 5mo agoTrump is like a button-mashing unskilled gamer. Calling his results a strategic shift is like calling jerks and spasms a shift in style of ballet. Some of it will get washed away as soon as one or both houses of Congress shifts, and the rest should be seen as an opportunity to strengthen democracy and its institutions.