Canada can and should be more engaged in de-escalation efforts at the Ukraine border where Russia is amassing troops but must focus on its diplomatic strengths, says national security experts.
In an interview on CTV’s Question Period airing Sunday, Richard Fadden, former CSIS director and national security adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said that includes calling out Russian aggression and threatening further sanctions, in union with NATO allies.
“We should be out there beating the bushes with our allies arguing, maybe send some more troops on a rotational basis, make sure sanctions that are now in place are fully respected, argue for bigger sanctions, but I don’t think we can do a great deal on our own,” he said.
There is nothing material that Canada can do either alone or with our paper tiger NATO.
Sanctions like taxes are for the little people to suffer not Oligarchs.
No one wants a war over this latter day Czechoslovakia, not even Putin. Well maybe Freeland.
Putin will grandstand and wring some gains while showing up NATO for the farce it is.
Joe Biden will get his 10% and Germany will get its Russian gas.
It’s doubtful the western Euro’s would or even could defend themselves if attacked so I see little stomach for a war over Ukraine.
The Ukraine crisis may herald the beginning of a New Europe.
If the EU defence force is still on the table it may signal the end of NATO allowing the refinement of coordinated Eurocentric mass surrender skills untainted by American hegemony.
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