TESTING CANADIAN METTLE?
CAN CANADA SURVIVE?
- Comment/analysis: Sasha Uzunov, Editor of Alternate Comms
Taking down Canada? Testing Canadian mettle, resolve?
HYBRID WAR? Pre-emptive strike? US Sports diplomacy?
In light of the US turning predator on Canada and even Denmark’s Greenland, it begs the serious question was the Australian Federal State of Victoria Premier Dan Andrews (2014-23) act of sabotaging the 2026 [British] Commonwealth Games a way of severing the traditional close ties between Australia and Canada? Leaving Canada without support? And was it ordered by the US? It’s not as far fetched as it seems.
The US State Department has cleverly used what it calls US Sports Diplomacy, where it pushes its sports culture to promote US Foreign Policy agenda. Here in Australia, the US has cleverly hijacked the “social activism/anti colonial” zeitgeist and literally owns Australian sports culture. As a smokescreen/diversion Australian sports bodies ban Britishness & Australia Day over “colonialism” but blatantly and hypocritically push Americanness which has nasty colonial issues, such as the mistreatment of native Americans and African Americans.
The US NFL, a symbol of US nationalism, has replaced the Commonwealth Games in Australia. The Victorian State Premier Jacinta Allan (pictured above), who has jumped on the anti colonial bandwagon, has signed a deal to bring US NFL matches to Melbourne, Australia. Again, this is too much of a coincidence.
CANADA OR THE US? - who would Australia choose?
Interesting question is in a hypothetical shooting war between the US and Canada who would Australia support? Canada or the UŠ?
Both Canada & Australia are members of The Commonwealth and share the same Head of State together with the UK, King Charles III.
PSY-OPS?
Difficult to know which side Australia would choose. Would there be a real “shooting war” between Canada and the US? It appears highly unlikely but we are now in a very unpredictable period in global affairs.
What the US could do is conduct psychological warfare operations (psy-ops), to undermine Canada from within. Canada is a federation of 10 provinces, including the French speaking province of Quebec. The US could fuel separatist movements within Canada, as one scenario.
In terms of native indigenous American Indians, Canada has a far better record in treating its native peoples than the US does. French Canadians have enormous autonomy. In stark contrast when the US bought the French North American colony of Louisiana in 1803, the large numbers of French speakers were Americanised very quickly.
Slavery was outlawed in the British Empire (of which both Canada and Australia were part of) in 1807. Many African slaves who fled the US during the slavery era fled to Canada first where they were given refuge. Some even journeyed to far away Australia in the 1850s when a gold rush broke out.
CARNEY - CAN HE KEEP CANADA TOGETHER?
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has been forced to walk a dangerous tightrope, any slip would be fatal. He has to keep fierce US political pressure and economic sanctions from crushing his country to a pulp but at the same time he cannot appease or anger his US ally and US President Trump. Weakness would lead to more demands but overly aggressive anti Americanism would also give Washington the conspiracy theorists fodder about China allegedly wanting to control the world. It is a horrible position to be in for Prime Minister Carney. He has made overtures to China in using the balancing act routine in playing off one superpower against another. Time will tell if the US losses interest in taking over Canada and returns to “normal,” whatever that means.
Canada as a member of NATO has been very accommodating of US strategic interests. It fought for the US in Afghanistan (2001-21) for nearly two decades, taking huge combat casualties for a small military force constrained by defence budgets and lack of manpower and equipment. Canada has also gone along with the US’s proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. Ottawa has bent over backwards in supporting the US.
So a feeling of resentment towards its big powerful ally the US is only natural !
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