Donald Trump threatened Canada’s Mark Carney during his rambling Davos speech on Wednesday (21 January), where he claimed that the nation “only lives because of the United States”. During his address at the World Economic Forum, the US president said that Ottawa should be “grateful” to Washington for all the “freebies” it receives. “Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements,” he said. It comes after Mr Carney warned that the old world order was in the “midst of a rupture” and was “not coming back,” during his own speech in Switzerland on Tuesday (20 January).
        • sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          9·
          7 days ago

          Presently yes, that’s correct. But that’s just par for the course when we we’ve been nested right next to the global hegemon for the entire post-war period.

          With our ties to the former British empire and vast resource wealth, we could have / still can chart a new course if we chose/choose to. We just chose the path of least resistance for the last 80 years and foolishly thought that would just never end.

      • rando895 [she/her]English
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        7 days ago

        I mean, presently there isn’t a bounty on my head for being trans, so like… Maybe opposing the cheeto Reich is still a good thing…

        • Drithvan [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          7 days ago

          Of course opposing fascist US hegemony is a good thing, what I’m more trying to say is that my country, Canada, still is under the US thumb.

          The problem is that too many Liberals are nationalists, and they choose to fight the US over Canadian nationalism. I oppose a US invasion under the grounds of anti-imperialism and national liberation.

        • Drithvan [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          9·
          7 days ago

          I agree. But I think something I want to keep in mind is that if there ever came a time when the US does invade Canada, I would not fight for the status quo of present-day bourgeois Canada.

          I would fight as part of an insurgency against America if there was a socialist/communist partisan force that I was ideologically aligned with. I don’t want to fight out of nationalism, I would wish to fight from a basis of anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism.

          • sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
            3·
            7 days ago

            Oh, hard agree. This is something I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about tbh.

            I will fight for the dictatorship of the proletariat, but not for the current dictatorship of capital.

            • Drithvan [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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              6 days ago

              I like to envision something like Tito’s partisan forces being created and used to fight American fascists. Fighting not for the existing state, but rather fighting for a new dictatorship of the proletariat.