Our leadership still thinks that they can just keep sucking up and they'll be spared. They're absolutely incapable of adjusting to the new reality that that the US is now cannibalizing its former vassals.

[–] AGM@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Our leadership is also trapped. Nobody is coming to save Canada if the US chooses to do something. I don't think it's likely that they take any military action against Canada, because we're already very compliant and will continue to be, but, if they do attack, we are on our own on an island against a much, much larger power. So, I don't think they see much other choice even if they want one.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The biggest threat to Canada comes from disintegration of social stability resulting from the collapsing living standards. The US doesn't need to invade Canada when they can simply use social divisions to do political capture. It's the formula the US has already ironed out in Latin America. The best defence against that is ensuring that we have a stable economy that actually serves the interests of people in Canada.

We should be creating crown corps to kick start infrastructure development and manufacturing here. And Liberals are doing the exact opposite of that by creating austerity to feed increased military spending.

[–] AGM@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Agreed.