Canada currently finds itself behind the 8-ball. Fortunately PM Carney is an expert pool player. Whether he makes this shot or not is anyone’s guess, but regardless it is Canada’s best chance. And even if the US does come to its senses after the Trump era has ended, current efforts will certainly leave the country in a stronger position.
I am old enough to remember when the EU was formed, and like the UN it seemed as if the hope was for the institution to grow into an intended end state with capabilities that were deliberately excluded at its creation to get the critical buy-in. The US was able to do it only by swallowing the poison pill of slavery, still working its way through the syatem.
One of the EU's abiding failures has been its unwillingness to devise a coherent solution to its "periphery problem". It has crafted successive ad hoc bespoke arrangements for periphery countries that are economically and strategically important to it, but it has never thought through how to build a generalised institutional solution that can bind in partners that for one reason or another are unsuited to full membership. Still, who knows, notwithstanding today's rebuff to Carney, given the deteriorating relationship with the USA perhaps Canada will eventually be the key that turns this lock?
What can they give each other? Future debt. complete inflationary cycle verging on Depression by 2028 in Europe including unnecessary war with Russia prompted by EU self-serving aggression.
Damn. The EU needs to be more united, but as much we all need a unified NAFTA. The EU and NAFTA make the world a better place.
Canada currently finds itself behind the 8-ball. Fortunately PM Carney is an expert pool player. Whether he makes this shot or not is anyone’s guess, but regardless it is Canada’s best chance. And even if the US does come to its senses after the Trump era has ended, current efforts will certainly leave the country in a stronger position.
I am old enough to remember when the EU was formed, and like the UN it seemed as if the hope was for the institution to grow into an intended end state with capabilities that were deliberately excluded at its creation to get the critical buy-in. The US was able to do it only by swallowing the poison pill of slavery, still working its way through the syatem.
Hey Henry, you know Carney is mostly Irish, 3 of his four grandparents were from County Mayo.
One of the EU's abiding failures has been its unwillingness to devise a coherent solution to its "periphery problem". It has crafted successive ad hoc bespoke arrangements for periphery countries that are economically and strategically important to it, but it has never thought through how to build a generalised institutional solution that can bind in partners that for one reason or another are unsuited to full membership. Still, who knows, notwithstanding today's rebuff to Carney, given the deteriorating relationship with the USA perhaps Canada will eventually be the key that turns this lock?
It reminds me of the ancient curse "may you live in interesting times". Here we are.
What can they give each other? Future debt. complete inflationary cycle verging on Depression by 2028 in Europe including unnecessary war with Russia prompted by EU self-serving aggression.
Good to know that Henry has such a discerning readership.