Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney continued his efforts to pivot away from the United States and align with Europe, meeting with the leader of Ireland on Saturday ahead of the upcoming G7 summit and saying middle power countries shouldn’t compete for favor with America.
Carney said that Canada and the European Union have a combined population that is more than twice that of the United States, with a similarly sized economy and a collective defense budget that is twice that of China’s.
He said smaller nations can multiply their strength by partnering with like-minded allies.
“In a world of great power rivalry, middle powers have a choice — to compete for favor or to combine to create a third path with impact,” Carney said at Trinity College in Dublin.
So why does he keep doing it?
I know you are asking rhetorically, but I think it’s a good question, because I believe he is sincere about this particular statement.
Aside from the fact that he is a neo-neo-Lib, and undoubtedly a friend of the elites, he has three constituencies: his electoral district, the general populace and the Party, and Capital. Capital is higher up in the pyramid, and he can’t just yoink our government and canadian business out of existing contracts and obligations. When the talk of a rupture in geopolitics comes up it doesn’t mean total.
A lot of conservatives, and Capital is conservative, believe that USA fascism isn’t as bad as you do, and that it’s temporary anyway and we’ll get back to normal in a few years. “Smart” money will invest on a 20-year timeframe.
So a commingled NA economy is inevitable in that view. Adding resilience to idiocracy is the actual “rupture”.
