We have been in a historical turning point in the global order for several years. Certainly now, that reality should be starkly obvious to all.
The rules-based order that arose from the ashes of the Second World War, by which institutions and norms provided guardrails that successfully prevented another bloodletting of a global scale for eight decades, is in its death throes. The final nails are being driven into its coffin by a White House that has offered, in the recent words of American strategist Dr. Eliot Cohen, “aid and comfort to our enemies in increasing regularity.”
These TDS casualties were all happy with the status quo when the USA was footing the bill.
Canada stood proudly among the biggest freeloaders while remaking the CAF into a Transgender Parade Rapid Deployment Force.
