Sure, sure, let's all take this research about the US's greatest geopolitical rival from this US State Department-funded think tank without any grains of salt. That couldn't possibly be a document motivated by the interests of their funders. That's just not how think tanks work, right?
AGM
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This is not for military defense against the US. All the investment is focused on the Arctic and on deepening military alliance with Arctic states and states that border Russia.
Which border do we share with the US? Any hardening of that? Nope.
We are basically all-in on supporting the US defense strategy. We are part of the team to face Russia so the US can focus on China. Also, we are basically investing in defense infrastructure to provide security for the resource supply chain between our far north and the US.
We may not love them right now, but we're still team USA. We are still basically a resource colony, and we are doing as the empire's strategy demands of us.
Good. The CBC has been biased on this. Only recently have they started more openly sharing critical views, but for most of the time this has been going on there was a strong pro-Israel bias. Even now, they are very cautious on the national programming about how they describe it. Compare it to how the situation with Ukraine and Russia is covered and the contrast is stark. The CBC is capable of putting blame on a party and making stark accusations of brutality of intent, but they're still very cautious about Israel.
This interaction was basically: Me: "This source has credibility issues." You: "But, they're confirming something I care about, so we don't talk about credibility issues."
This think tank even had their own Chair and deputy CEO forced to resign after it becoming known they were engaged in politics with one of their domestic parties while supposedly publishing "unbiased" analysis on the topic, and those two then went to join the campaign.
They're funded by the US, have history of issues with bias, this is a well-known model for generating propaganda, and their backers have specific geopolitical interests in advancing narratives to generate fear on this topic.