John Last at Noema:
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the possible death and dismemberment of my country. Time and again, I scan the news and hear rumblings of war. Threats of annexation and domination. Glib guides on the political benefits of erasing my country from the map. Grim military models projecting our army’s easy defeat in hypothetical invasion scenarios and our society’s collapse into a patchwork of mujahedeen-style militias.
I do not live in Iran, or Cuba, or Venezuela. I live in Canada. And until very recently, such headlines would have been the work of perverse fantasists. Canada has long been a veritable Eden of middle-class gentility. But something grave has shifted in the world order. Under the National Security Strategy (NSS) of the Trump administration, the line between allied and enemy nations has blurred to the point of non-existence.
Today, the U.S. and its antagonists can strike virtually anywhere at any time, making geography less and less relevant to conflict. Over the past half-century or so, the goals of war have also changed.
More here.
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