Now that Canada has been declared a National Security Threat to the USA by none other than Prez Trump, let us look at others who have been declared such in the past by other Presidents and see if Canada fits in with this description.
Measures taken to ensure U.S. national security include:
- Using diplomacy to rally allies and isolate threats.
- Marshaling economic power to elicit cooperation.
- Maintaining effective armed forces.
- Implementing civil defense and emergency preparedness policies (including anti-terrorism legislation)
- Ensuring the resilience and redundancy of critical infrastructure.
- Using intelligence services to detect and defeat or avoid threats and espionage, and to protect classified information.
- Tasking counterintelligence services or secret police to protect the nation from internal threats.
I am sure being a retired diplomat that President Trump has already directed the US Government to take such action against Canada, it goes well beyond tariffs on steel and aluminium.
As the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael G. Mullen, was fond of saying, US national debt has become perhaps our top national security threat. The United States has been running trillion-dollar deficits, resulting in a huge explosion in the country’s indebtedness. Publicly held debt now equals 70% of gross domestic product, a threshold many economists consider significant and highly worrisome. Making matters worse, half of our current deficit financing is being provided by foreigners.
Others threats to the security of the USA are: unstable Middle-East with no peace in sight, Climate change, Cyber terrorism, President Putin, the energy future, South Asia (Afghanistan and Pakistan), the next space challenge, unstable Africa in the face of epidemics like Ebola. With President Trump’s unpredictable behaviour he may by himself create instability for the USA and create new unnecessary crisis.
This weekend in Charlevoix, Quebec the G7 is meeting and the attitude and tweeting of President Trump and his early departure from the conference simply isolates the USA in the world and angers is most trusted and long term allies. Prime Minister Trudeau is correct is stating that the declaration of Trump is illogical and insulting for Canadians. But the President does not seem to care and believes he can bully Canada and other nations. We will have to bow to his demands, however now Canadians are more united than ever in the face of this aggression by the American administration.
So I chose to listen to music instead by Emmanuel Chabrier 1841-1894. When confronted by fools take the high road, this is what I am doing.
The Horror Clown considers Canada a National Security Threat. And at the same time he wants Russia let back in, despite the fact that if anything the Beast from the East has only destablised the world in general, and Ukraine specifically, with every act and murder. Go figure. McCain’s riposte summed it up better than I could: “The President has inexplicably shown our adversaries the deference and esteem that should be reserved for our closest allies,’
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Destabilised the world still further, I meant to put.
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Your comments are interesting and relevant and alarming for many of us.
I can’t set aside the fear, that simply will not go away, that one day if we annoy him enough, Trump will threaten to invade Canada to shut us up.
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I continue to be embarrassed by Trumps remarks and actions. I continue to be embarrassed by the fact that some Americans still support him. It is depressing.
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I concur with MC54. And he’s not fit for office.
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I propose you build a wall and get Trump to pay for it.
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Thank you Larry !! … Trump should listen to Chabrier too … Et je t’informe que je t’ai nominé pour le “Mystery Blogger Award”
https://roijoyeux.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/joyeux-blogger-award-3/
Bien sûr tu n’es pas obligé d’accepter l’award, ni de participer ! Belle soirée Laurent !!
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Larry,
As an American I personally apologize to you and all Canadiens and especially your prime minister Justin Trudeau for the rude and disrespectful behavior of our president who continues to embarrass our country.
Ron
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Ron, no need I like many Canadians can see what Trump is. I am worried about what he did with Kim giving him all he wanted and got nothing in return. I am also worried about jobs in the USA in the auto sectors who will be lost to his idiotic idea of putting 25% tariffs on cars made both in Canada and USA. Hopefully the big 3 American car makers will explain to him the stupidity of that move. Canada is the enemy and North Korea is the friend now. This is going to backfire so badly, it is not even funny. Oh and China will win big.
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