Canada has had good luck to live next to the Great Republic, Maybe that benevolent state of affairs will return, but for the next four years we have Trump
Canadian and U.S. flags fly atop the Peace Arch monument at the Douglas-Peace Arch border crossing in Surrey, B.C., in November, 2021.‘INHABITANTS of CANADA !” begins the social media post from the U.S. general assigned the job of occupying us. “The ARMY under my command has& the Standard of the UNION now waves over the Territory of CANADA . To the peaceable unoffending inhabitant … I come to protect, not to injure you.
But in the sweep of human history, it’s all depressingly normal. Give me what I want, or I’ll take it. Ho hum. Political scientists of the realist school use the story to illustrate how relations between states tend to work. Countries and leaders pursue their interests, and may treat morality, international law and even friendship as so much easily swept-away gossamer. As for Mr. Trump, this observation about how the world sometimes goes is his North Star for how it should always be.
Mr. Trump has turned an ancient observation about how people sometimes behave into a credo guiding his behaviour. Perhaps that is why Mr. Trump is always so uncomfortable among traditional friends – NATO, the European Union, Canada – but at home treating with dictators and despots. The former spend a lot of time on niceties like rights, while the latter only speak the language of power.
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