Canada’s place in the world


The Ukrainian crisis is prompting many to question Canada’s place in the world.

What can he do to mark his disapproval?

Because no matter how much we line up moral condemnations, and express our indignation at the Russian invasion, they have little chance of weighing on events.

What can it do in such a situation, which recalls the importance for a country of military power, without which it is condemned to be a powerless spectator of human history?

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Empire

Some, usually on TV shows, explain that “we” must intervene militarily against Russia.

But who is this us they are referring to?

Canada alone? It would be surprising.

The West? Certainly, but what form does it take militarily? Canada, the United States, France, Spain, and so many other countries belong to Western civilization. Do they have the same geopolitical interests? And are we dictating to other countries their foreign policy?

Does this “we” then refer to NATO? But NATO is a defensive alliance and Ukraine is not a member.

Let us return to the question then.

What can Canada do? You have to see things at the height of history.

Canada has always lived in the shadow of the empire to which it belonged.

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At the time of the First World War, then of the Second, it was within the parameters of the British Empire that it was part of. In fact, Canada prided itself on being the most ardent dominion in the Empire, the most cheerful at the idea of ​​taking up arms to defend its interests.

After the Second World War, as the British Empire crumbled, he was struck by a double temptation.

Some wanted Canada to align itself naturally with the United States, as if Washington were taking London’s place in the mental universe of English speakers in the country. Canada was to become America’s best ally.

The others dreamed of an independent international policy, but under the sign of the UN, of which Canada would become an exemplary global citizen. Failing to be a military superpower, it would be a moral superpower, carrying a model of society supposed to be the envy of the planet. And he would prove his seriousness through the commitment of his armed forces under the banner of the Blue Helmets, in semi-military, semi-humanitarian operations.

In other words, Canada hesitated, without being fully aware of it, between the American Empire and the UN Empire.

Power

In the emerging world, what can he do?

We note, for example, that he never took the question of the Arctic seriously.

More broadly, it will have to redefine its international identity.

The time for grand moralizing speeches could well be behind us. The era that is beginning will push States to reconnect with the means of power. Can Canada afford it?

I’m not just talking about financial, but existential means, he who wanted to believe more than anything in a collapsing globalist ideological fiction.




Reference-www.journaldemontreal.com

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