COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
Canada Greenlights
Lethal Arms Sales to Ukraine
Today, the Canadian
government announced that it had added Ukraine to the Automatic Firearms
Country Control List, which is a list of countries deemed to be permitted
destinations for the export of firearms.
Again, although I've encountered misunderstanding, and even
abuse, here when I have explained previously, I wish Russians to understand the
situation Canadians are in.
We share a gigantic border and a massive trade with our
Southern neighbor. Stopping that trade would be the equivalent impact of a war
on our economy. We are that dependent, and the United States dramatically
demonstrated the fact when, not long after 9/11, it halted cross-border
movements temporarily to pressure Canada into agreeing to a new border regime.
As for being invaded along that border, it wouldn’t take a week for America’s
Frankenstein military to overrun our modest forces.
In times long past, Canada took its own views on a number of
international matters, views which differed from those of the US. America was
often hostile, but there was much less sense of the threat of the kind of
international criminality we see today from America.
The government of Justin Trudeau is different for two
reasons, I believe.
First, he is not cut from quite the same cloth as his tough
and independent-minded father, Pierre. And I am very much a believer in Thomas
Carlyle's dictum, history is biography. His father would never have appointed
as unpleasant, biased, and American-oriented a foreign minister as Chystia
Freeland, for example.
Second, and this is important for the whole world to
understand, the United States has changed drastically in the last two decades.
Its path is directed by genuinely ruthless people with no morals or ethics.
Today, the world finds the US dominating Europe as never
before, acting for all the world as an occupying power while pretending
otherwise. The US runs arms and troops right up to Eastern borders against a
number of previously given assurances in the days of President Reagan. And it
constantly promotes, by many means, fear and hostility of Russia, appealing to,
and keeping alive, historical prejudices of Eastern states that were far better
encouraged to be forgotten.
It threatens Europe’s economic interests with arbitrarily-imposed
sanctions against its natural continental trading partner, Russia. It also,
with its Neocon-inspired wars raging through the Mideast, has close to
destabilized the EU at times with side-effects, like armies of refugees running
from American bombing and mercenary terror gangs, refugees America itself is
unwilling to lift a finger to assist.
NATO is used like an organizational fig leaf to cover
America’s often naked aggression in many parts and make it seem as though the
aggression isn’t aggression but consensus policy by a number of Western
countries. That is literally what NATO is reduced to, its original role of
opposing possible Soviet aggression long having become obsolete.
Today, America makes ugly threats regularly against several
countries, including Iran, Russia, North Korea, China, Venezuela, and others.
It conducts coups or organized terror campaigns or vicious
dark efforts in a number of countries, including Venezuela, Syria, Yemen, Iraq,
Lebanon, Somalia, and more.
It leaves the unfortunate people of Palestine, and
especially those in the miserable concentration camp called Gaza, to suffer and
rot under relentless Israeli abuse and oppression, Israelis using, without criticism
or interference, American-supplied weapons, financial support, and assistance
of every kind.
America has violently overthrown governments in a number of
lands in the recent past, including those of Libya, Egypt, and Ukraine.
Through revelations in the recent past, we know that America
has been even more involved in the state murder business than we ever thought
before, likely victims having included Sweden's past Prime Minister, Olaf Palme,
and others.
It does all this while maintaining a smug and pious face to
the world, blubbering about freedom and democracy – perhaps most extremely
represented by its moral-idiot appointee at the UN, Nikki Haley, but indeed a constant
feature in the language of every American official.
Of course, as the last election, America amply demonstrated
to the world that it is itself incapable of running a clean election. It even
featured a political murder, that of idealistic Seth Rich, apart from all the
vote fraud and meaningless money-driven campaigns between two parties who
represent much the same things. And as
Palestine and Guantanamo and ISIS and the CIA’s dark international rendition gulag
demonstrate, it cares very little about any freedom except its own freedom to
behave as it wishes.
So, I can at least understand the timidity of leaders in countries
like France and Germany. And I think we have to add the current government of
Canada.
Many Canadians do not like foreign policy initiatives under
our current government, but at the same time, they remember the ugliest
government in our history, that of Stephen Harper, for the decade before.
We are at least relieved not to have that relentless assault
on all of best traditions, both foreign and domestic., by an ideologue
ultra-conservative like Harper.
It should be noted Mr. Harper was a vocal and relentless
advocate for the Israel Lobby such as we've never experienced before, and it is
that lobby plus their allied Neocons in Washington who have produced what I can
only call an America unashamed to behave like conquering fascists abroad.
