Appeasement
“My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.”
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberland after signed the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler in 1938.
Its been a busy week in Canada-US relations. The Trump regime threatened Canada with a trade war for the express purpose of crushing our economy until we beg to become the 51st State. In response, we increased our law enforcement cooperation with the United States and then claimed victory.
The Liberals in Canada are currently taking a victory lap for having conceded an agreement that they made in December for $1.3 billion border plan including a joint US-Canadian police task force. They added a “Fentanyl Tzar,” to this deal, whatever that means. In exchange, we get a 30 day stay on the tariffs.
Provincially, some Premiers are rushing to get American liquor back onto shelves and Doug Ford un-shredded the deal for Starlink that he said was cancelled just yesterday. Threatening tariffs was a deal breaker for Mr Ford, but the CEO of the company being an open Nazi is apparently not. Even before the Trudeau concessions, several Premiers were calling for Canada to make concessions, including the Premier of Saskatchewan Scott Moe, who proposed sending Canadian troops to the border.
As long as he’s not driving right?
The way Canadian leaders are acting, you’d think the threat from our former friends to the south was nothing but a bad dream.
The same week all this happened, the Trump regime was busy with a consolidation of power that can be fairly described as a self-coup. The Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE), run by Elon Musk, has dismantled departments such as USAID, sacked and investigated January 6 investigators at the FBI, and seized control of the entire human resources of the US Federal Government. He has created a parallel system of power within the US Federal Government.
These two situations are not unrelated. This was a test. Canada failed.
The American slide to outright fascism isn’t a surprise, it’s not new, and it’s not subtle. They’ve been telegraphing it for years. Rather than take it seriously, when the Biden regime was a lame duck, our Prime Minister decided to piss away an $1.3 billion for the sake of securing the border from an imaginary threat1, probably in order to head off the threats that Trump was already making.
It begs the question: Do Liberals know that police cooperation with a fascist police state is actually a bad thing? They know what Trump is by now, they’ve all been dragged kicking and screaming all the way to the point where they will admit the threat he is, yet they’re still so servile they’re thrilled to see the RCMP work hand-in-hand with his regime.
This crisis, which is by no means over, has exposed an absolutely glaring and obvious weakness; we are utterly dependent on the nation that is currently attacking us. Tariffs, reductions in trade, boycotts, these aren’t just our first line of defense, they’re our only line of defense.
Because to be clear: there is no military solution to the annexation threat. Period. Even without factoring in the economic freefall involved in such a step, the forces involved have changed since 1812. Logistics of the modern era are actually quite different from the logistics of the era in which muskets, cannons and cavalry won battles, and it was an era in which Highway 401 was a forest.
It’s bluster, usually coming from people who have lived lives of peace and use the word “we” in the context of what Canada did in the World Wars. In fact what “we” have done lately is lose a war to the poorest country in the world, and “we” are unfit for one with the most powerful.
Canada has sold itself so completely to the USA that we can’t stop a runaway fascist government from demolishing our economy with a single executive order. Economically, militarily, even culturally, we are completely beholden to the Americans. For the next 28 days we await on pins and needles to see if Trump will deign to allow us to have an economy.
It's been a long time coming. We’ve been accomplices in their wars, their imperialism, and their blatant disregard of international law. We have enabled and prostrated ourselves in front of this monster every step of the way from Manifest Destiny to Make America Great Again. All that blood and treasure for nothing. This must end, and this crisis can be the catalyst for it.
Threats of annexation are a step too far, one of so many steps that have been too far. The absolute silence from the so-called moderates in the American regime should be a wake-up call if nothing else up to now has been. They watched their mad president threaten us and they did nothing.
Noted.
The only way to ensure Canadian independence and sovereignty is to pivot away from American Hegemony. A pivot like this cannot and will not happen overnight but is the only way Canada can ensure that we do not get economically demolished at a whim. In order to move away from the Americans, we need to move away from American Capital.
Yes, Anarcho-Communism is the solution to this, as it is so many of life’s grievances, but I will admit that Capitalism’s hold on Canada may be rather tight, so in the meantime, the least we can do is what we had already planned to do: tariffs and boycotts.
The threat of American economic war on Canada hasn’t disappeared, it has been deferred, so we should act like it. I will not be partaking in American goods, services, or social networks to the best of my ability. Like Canada itself, it will take time and effort to extricate the American buisness interests integral to our lives. For me, this will not be an exercise in “buy Canadian,” because frankly, our billionaires are no less evil than theirs. Instead, this for me is “boycott American,” and I will be taking it very seriously.
My reformist politics may have withered to the sound of MPs clapping for Jaroslav Hunka, but nevertheless, there are ways we can influence how this goes. We can effect the profitability of American interests in Canada with boycotts. We can demand the end of military and law enforcement partnerships. We can demand that Canada allow people seeking asylum from the United States. We can end all extradition treaties and law enforcement cooperation.
In the coming days, I will be shutting down my Meta affiliated accounts, as these are beyond compromised with Zuckerberg’s participation in the Trump inauguration. Amazon is dead to me, and I long ago abandoned the Hellsite formally known as Twitter.
We can do this out of a sense of altruism; undermining the American capitalist hold over us and thus their bottom line, will undermine the Trump regime and help the people who suffer under it.
We can do it out of a sense of self-interest; Canada can’t be economically crushed by the USA if we don’t do buisness with them anymore.
Whatever the reasons, whatever ideology, we must extricate Canada from American business, political, and military interests. It means not giving an inch. It means saying no to appeasement, whatever the economic cost. It means taking risks. A trade war would indeed be disastrous to Canada, but what’s the alternative? Submission when courage is needed most.
No to appeasement. Not now, not again, not ever.
No Pasaran!
Ian, February 5, 2025.
The fentanyl issue at the border is negligible and just being used as casus belli.
When I arrived in Canada in 1970 I was surprised at how "American" we were. In those days it was largely social - TV shows, movies, literature, products... I have watched since then as our culture has been stripped away, our industries sold off, with no effort to diversify our markets. It is total political laziness to sell all we have to the greedy monster south of us, especially as we all aware that in any trade negotiations we make, we are the ones that get beaten up. As but one example of the one-sided dealings with this "friend" of ours, check out the agreement thrashed out over the creation of the St Lawrence Seaway. It's a joke. We were too focused on selling to American refineries to build our own, we were so focused south that we failed to sell our oil east and west. Yes, we can boycott America - in my small way I do anyway - but, frankly, it's much too late. We should have been acting positively decades ago, but Canada is far too complacent and self-congratulatory. We are in this position now because of the blindness of our political leaders over decades. How was I able to watch this happening over the years, when none of our politicians could? I'm no genius.