Graeme Decarie
Well-Known Member
Mendalla has stated the problem very well. Like dealing with climate change, it's essential. But, also like climate change, it will be hard to see a way.
I studied under Arthur Lower, the historian-author of Canada:Colony to Nation. It saw us as breaking out of colonialism between 1914 and 1945. But it should have been obvious even then that we were breaking out of one colonialism to join another. We were a part of the American empire.
It's also true we should be getting out of NATO. It, too, is simply a codeword for American Empire.
Tiny Cuba broke out of the American empire. It looks as though The Phiilipines is doing the same. And there is emerging a great unhappiness with American imperialism in Europe with the European countries looking for a better ally. We can also expect some serious conflicts within the American colonies of South America. And there is every possibility the U.S. will draw us into that as it has already drawn us into Afghanistan,, the middle east and eastern Europe. There will be a price to pay for breaking with the U.S. There will be much bigger one in continuing to be a U.S. colony.
The world of twenty years ago was not very different from the world of today. The world of twenty years from now is going to look impossibly different from the one we know. The billionaires who rule the U.S. have been greedy, brutal, corrupting, and indifferent to the horror they create for others - including americans. Now, they're approaching panic at the rise of China - and the weakening regard for the U.S. in that region. It is very possible that will go to war to prevent that - and the only war the U.S. can fight now is a nuclear one. In 16 years, the armed forces of the U.S. have not been capable of putting down what is essentially a rebellion in a divided (and small) nation of Afghanistan. The idea that it could fight a conventional war against Russia and/or China is absurd.
The old imperialism of Britain was possible because Britain had lots of undeveloped and even primitive societies to murder and loot. Russia and China are neither undeveloped nor primitive.
The American empire is in decline. It has abused even Americans to make the decline ever worse. It bears a remarkable resemblance to Rome in its last days.
Yes, for Canada to break away from all that will be very, very difficult. Certainly, neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives will do any such thing because the people who who own those parties owe whatever wretched souls they have to our imperial masters.
I studied under Arthur Lower, the historian-author of Canada:Colony to Nation. It saw us as breaking out of colonialism between 1914 and 1945. But it should have been obvious even then that we were breaking out of one colonialism to join another. We were a part of the American empire.
It's also true we should be getting out of NATO. It, too, is simply a codeword for American Empire.
Tiny Cuba broke out of the American empire. It looks as though The Phiilipines is doing the same. And there is emerging a great unhappiness with American imperialism in Europe with the European countries looking for a better ally. We can also expect some serious conflicts within the American colonies of South America. And there is every possibility the U.S. will draw us into that as it has already drawn us into Afghanistan,, the middle east and eastern Europe. There will be a price to pay for breaking with the U.S. There will be much bigger one in continuing to be a U.S. colony.
The world of twenty years ago was not very different from the world of today. The world of twenty years from now is going to look impossibly different from the one we know. The billionaires who rule the U.S. have been greedy, brutal, corrupting, and indifferent to the horror they create for others - including americans. Now, they're approaching panic at the rise of China - and the weakening regard for the U.S. in that region. It is very possible that will go to war to prevent that - and the only war the U.S. can fight now is a nuclear one. In 16 years, the armed forces of the U.S. have not been capable of putting down what is essentially a rebellion in a divided (and small) nation of Afghanistan. The idea that it could fight a conventional war against Russia and/or China is absurd.
The old imperialism of Britain was possible because Britain had lots of undeveloped and even primitive societies to murder and loot. Russia and China are neither undeveloped nor primitive.
The American empire is in decline. It has abused even Americans to make the decline ever worse. It bears a remarkable resemblance to Rome in its last days.
Yes, for Canada to break away from all that will be very, very difficult. Certainly, neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives will do any such thing because the people who who own those parties owe whatever wretched souls they have to our imperial masters.
