The Western world has always approached international law this way. It’s why the rest of the world usually rolls its eyes when they start to get preachy about it. The contrast between Carneys speech in Davos and now is just more blatant than usual. The rules for thee but not for me doublethink has always been there.

Always has been. Not just the rich folk either. Ask some Canadians about indigineous people and youll feel like youve time travelled back a century.

Hockey is globally perceived as the winter white privilege sport. Tennis is the summer counterpart though I’d argue tennis is less homogenous.

This is called a bribe. Bridge owner bribed US president Donald Trump with $1 million dollars in exchange for blasting competitor.

Getting caught with “you can fuck off” on a hit mic doesn’t help either. Last thing anyone wants is for Canada to gain a reputation of cheating, especially after the drone scandal with the Canadian womens soccer team at the Paris Olympics in '24.

Ahead of the tournament, on 22 July, New Zealand players noticed a drone flying over their training session and reported this to local police.[2] Drone operating laws in France ban drones from being flown above people and ban recordings made by drones to be shared without the subjects’ consent. French police were already wary of drones in terms of security around the 2024 Summer Olympics.[1][3] Saint-Étienne police followed the drone and found and detained its operator, a member of the staff of the Canadian team. The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) then reported the incident to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) integrity unit, before making a public announcement the next day together with New Zealand Football, expressing their disappointment towards the Canadian team. The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) then apologized to the NZOC and said they would review next steps with Canada Soccer and all the relevant governing bodies.[2][4]

The drone operator, analyst Joseph Lombardi, admitted after his arrest that he had also filmed another New Zealand training session on 19 July,[5] a fact later made public by the COC.[1][3] Though Lombardi immediately said that the spying was “a personal initiative”, the police found a text message exchange on his phone with assistant coach Jasmine Mander that indicated Mander knew of the spying.[6]

If you’re resorting to espionage please just accept that you suck and don’t do things that drag your nations reputation in the process.

This will never happen since the Americans would see it as intentionally antagonizing. They’ve made it clear they see the Western hemisphere as theirs.

In fact, in response they may take more deliberate action to capture control of Canada coercively. Being part of the EU would provide no meaningful protection against that. It would unnecessarily invite a more aggressive American posture towards Canada.

If Carney did this it would be one of the biggest blunders in modern political history. Thankfully he’s a pretty smart guy. There’s very little value in joining the EU for Canada.

There may be overlap in values but Europe is not what it used to be. Much of the worlds economic growth will be driven by the global south for the next thirty years so Carney is wise to prioritize carefully calculated deals with those countries.

He will be travelling to India next, let’s see what he can secure as far as a trade deal goes. The EU and India are celebrating their recently signed free trade agreement, perhaps Carney will follow suit.

Having nationalistic tendencencies seems on par with many European countries today.

There is truth in what you’re saying but I’m having trouble relating it to the topic at hand.

Carney needs to create favorable conditions for Aldi (a German company) to enter the Canadian market. They already have a strong presence in the north eastern US and they could easily undercut the existing Canadian grocery monopolies. This is a market in desperate need for healthy competition.

Costco already undercuts Canadian grocers. Most Canadians that have one available preferentially go there but it’s not enough. If the Canadian grocery market is bloated and inefficient, letting more light and agile (albeit foreign) players in will be a much needed wake up call for domestic corporations.

This is not advocacy to remove all red tape in retail. Target tried to break into the Canadian market and failed miserably because they couldn’t adapt to Canada. In my view that’s perfectly fine, but Canadians desperately need relief when it comes to cost of food and its unlikely that will come from their grocery oligopoly.

Each monopoly is owned by a billionaire family (Weston, Sobey and Coutu).

It’s basically medieval feudalism up here. Price fixing and gouging are out of control. If Carney does anything meaningful to disrupt it he will be lauded for it for decades to come.

Pretty uniquely honest for a Western leader to recognize the double standards within that old order which was designed to maintain Western hegemony at the expense of the Global South.

Why pick characteristics indistinguishable between China and the US lol

No it is Canada’s duty to protect the sacred North American institutions of F150 and Ram /s

Throws his staff under the bus and assumes he will get another oppurtunity. Poor PR instincts in my opinion.

I appreciate that Carney is a pragmatist. With the way the world is today, that is the only successful strategy.

Geopolitically Canada is in a bit of a bind with everyone’s big brother in the West (US) turning heel so it makes sense to have good trade relationships with other large economies.

Trump has accelerated the expansion of fault lines in the West so if there ever was a time to hedge and diversify, it’s now.

Carney is similarly approaching a normalization of trade relations with India which is wise given their demographic dividend and growth trajectory. It would be short sighted not to do that.

There are issues with China’s brand of capitalism, no doubt. There is a touch of imperialism sure, but Canada is used to having strong relationships with imperial entities. Specifically, Britain and then the US. Although, both are Anglo Saxon so they may feel more familiar and that familiarity likely may make it easier to turn a blind eye to their misdeeds.

In any event Canada is used to dealing with big whales that occasionally do bad things so hopefully Carney can find points of leverage and use that to arrive at an agreement that is advantageous for the Canadian people.

CEO of ExxonMobil to be appointed as monarch.

Jesus lived the life of an ascetic by largely renouncing the indulgences of the material world, as was commonly emphasized in Eastern religions at the time. He would step away into nature for clarity and self reflection similar to the vision quests of Indigineous communities.

He was undoubtedly a pacifist.

The state and church have always worked in coordination to carefully shape the Christian narrative out of concern that, if it were truly embraced by the people, from where would they get their imperial cannon fodder?

This is why movements like “muscular Christianity” were necessary. There was a period in the late 19th century when church going was seen as a largely feminine activity and this movement helped restore male attendance. Depictions of Jesus were made to emphasize more “masculine” chacteristics (prominent cheekbones, chin, more cut physique). This movement also brought about the YMCA, as motivation for men to attend.

Christianity, Islam and monotheism in general are incredibly useful political tools for imperialism and empire building. They indoctrinate one to accept top down authoritarianism and hierarchy, often unquestioningly, from childhood.

Portraying Jesus in a biblically accurate sense is counterproductive for empire building. Which is why Christians so unlike Christ. It’s ever apparent proof that relgion is a tool of the state.

I would politely add The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey.

Yeah I don’t love that though many Western nations especially the US have a de facto second and third tier population through historical subjugation and predatory capitalist practices (African Americans and Indigineous people come to mind). My overall point being no empire is really “good” and so morality is only one consideration when doing business with a nation. The US entered multiple illegal wars and is committing war crimes in the Carribean today but that does not stop its allies and others from continuing to do trade with them.

Unfortunately you can’t kill an idea. The West dabbled in white supremacy for most of modern history (see race based caste in America and South Africa, race based chattel slavery, phrenology etc) and still does to some degree so Nazism was inevitable in many ways.

Leopold Amery, the empire’s secretary of state for India appealed Churchill for aid as British engineered famines devestated Bengal (such famines killed 100 million people during the colonial era). The great hero of the West responded by calling Indians a beastly people, blaming them for “breeding like rabbits”, saying the diverted grain was better kept for “sturdy greeks” and wished death upon Gandhi.

Amery wrote in his diary: “Naturally I lost patience, and couldn’t help telling him that I didn’t see much difference between his outlook and Hitler’s, which annoyed him no little.”

If these are the people we venerate and we continue to teach incomplete histories, is killing every Nazi going to be enough?