The question before Canada is whether we engage with our democratic allies with confidence and competence, or grudgingly drag our feet
You cannot begin to understand it if you do not appreciate how transformative it was when the United States and the Soviet Union rose to become the world’s only superpowers, with all of the great empires of European history either outright destroyed, as in Germany, humiliated and broken, as in France, or triumphant but broke, as in the United Kingdom.Article content
Personally, I am a simple man of simple tastes, and see no reason to reinvent the wheel. Calling what is taking shape between the West and China “Cold War II“ works just fine for me. We can tack on as many numerals after the term as required to keep up with the march of history. So sure, let’s call it the “Second Cold War,” or “Cold War II.”Article content
Likewise, Canada should try to avoid its prior mistakes. Canada is, inevitably, a member of the democratic Western alliance. We simply do not have the clout, and have never even attempted to build sufficient clout, to meaningfully go off on our own. Our fortunes are linked to the United States whether we like it or not, and as you all well know, throughout history, the answer has often been “not.
Given recent instability in the United States, this is a more alarming prospect than it usually is, but there is simply no appetite here, at any level, to meaningfully increase our own state capacity in ways that will leave us less dependent on Washington’s good will. We can petulantly try to ignore the obvious and pretend otherwise, or we can lean into the reality of our geography and try to be a meaningful contributor to the allied cause.
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