COMMENT MADE TO AN ARTICLE IN SPUTNIK
As a Canadian, I very much regret what our government has
done here.
It is stupid and counterproductive. But I also know that it
had virtually no choice.
America, these days, is on a tear, and it intensely
pressures and even threatens its allies to support it.
America has so many resources - economic, financial, and
other - with which to quietly threaten that it would be impossible for most
allied governments to resist.
Only a statesman the quality of a de Gaulle or, to a lesser
extent, Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre, could hope to resist.
Our charming, but inexperienced Prime Minister is not made
of that stern stuff.
He is also selling billions of dollars of armaments to the
terrorist government of Saudi Arabia, and I know this goes against his grain
and that of his Foreign Minister, Dion, but they can hardly accept the American
company which owns the facility manufacturing the arms being shut down, not in
these hard economic times.
And so it is, too, for the members of a weakened EU.
Its generally insipid leaders feel they must accept what
America demands.
The bottom line in all of this is that the American
establishment cannot stand being embarrassed or bested by someone like Putin in
foreign affairs, and that is exactly what has happened.
