As the rear of Europe, Canada has what it needs. This may be the basis for the NATO alliance
In the overview of the New World Order, some are faint but not slowly, this is a world order of large groups in the world, much less than the rules that slip away now.
It is not clear where Canada will fit in this new world. But there are some hints that this may be the way forward for the country, as it strives to painfully realize that its most powerful, closest allies have opened it up, and each day brings shocking evidence for Washington’s embrace of the Kremlin.
European officials have held talks with Canada to include the country in a new defence production partnership and potentially allow Canadian companies to bid for contracts as Europe prepares for mass retraining.
Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly told CBC Power and Politics Host David Cochrane on Wednesday.
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“I think it’s a succumb to the good news because ultimately we need to make sure we can get closer to Europeans…including defense procurement.”
Christian Leuprecht of the Royal Canadian Military Academy and Queen’s University of Canada needs to make a specific offer to Europe as the mainland quickly reassessed its safe location.
“The biggest risk for Canada has always been one person in the world,” he said. “If Europe is alone in making decisions and defending its abilities, then Canada needs even less than it is now.”
Three weeks since the Oval Office’s tragic defeat, U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the European leaders made significant progress towards a new coalition focused on defending aggression from Ukraine and other continents of Russia.
The question is, how much space is there in Canada in this alliance?
Large-scale resupport from Europe
European leaders are undergoing unprecedented overhaul of their continent’s collective defense.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: “We live in the most important and dangerous times.
“In this world, we cannot rely on others to ensure our safety,” said Roberta Metsola, president of the EU Parliament.
French President Emmanuel Macron addressed his country on prime time television: “I want to believe the United States will stay with us. But we need to be prepared.”
Tom Enders, a former Airbus director and head of the German Foreign Relations Council, further: “We cannot pay attention to the fact that the United States is now an opponent.”
Despite leaving the EU five years ago, the UK has made it clear that it wants to join the emerging alliance. Prime Minister Keir Starmer calls for continued defense of Ukraine after Washington was abandoned.
During NATO’s first Trump term, NATO Deputy Deputy Secretary-General Jamie Shea said: “Canada is the only non-European country to be invited to these conferences because it is a NATO ally and so far it has also attended the conference.”
It is obvious that Europeans welcome any help they can get when they are in Ukraine. However, it is unclear that if NATO continues to collapse under U.S. pressure, they are ready to welcome a more formal alliance of Canada.
2 harsh reality
In a world where the United States is getting closer to Russia and increasingly hostile to Western democracies, Canada faces two harsh realities, both of which limit its attractiveness as an allies to any post-arrangement of NATO.
First, Canada is seeking new alliances because it feels threatened to us talking about the threat of annexation, but it is courting allies (except Denmark) feels threatened by Moscow, not Washington. Formal alliances with mutual defense obligations are often most attractive to countries facing the same threats in the same region.
The second is that few countries will bind themselves with the promise of defending their allies that cannot return. Canada does not have the ability to project important military power to other parts of the world, such as Europe.
“It’s our allies’ cricket on the allies,” Leprecht told CBC News, despite some small symbolic gestures.
Last week at the Oval Office, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte remained silent, even laughing as Trump made some of the most threatening annexation comments about Canada and Greenland.
Canada has European demand
While Canada is currently unable to provide NATO’s power beyond the brigade, it has other things that Europe much needs, which may be the basis for new security arrangements.
Despite efforts to get rid of itself, Europe still relies heavily on Russian gas. Half of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports come from the increasingly unfriendly United States.
“Europe is very vulnerable to energy blackmail from the Trump administration,” Leuprecht said. “What will Trump do to Putin to Europe and how will you reduce this risk? You source liquid natural gas from Canada.”
The German government has shown strong interest in both Canadian natural gas and green hydrogen. In 2022, former Prime Minister Olaf Scholz traveled to Newfoundland to sign a deal with hydrogen from a large wind project on the Port Port Peninsula.
Recently, Canadian leaders have been working on this stadium.
“We know we have everything that a country dreams of having in the world,” Joley said on CNN International. “We have all the necessary energy. We have all the necessary fertilizers and potassium fertilizers. We have all the land. And we are an agricultural superpower. We have all the necessary uranium, hydropower, oil and gas, oil and gas. We have all the people, the key minerals, the talent, the talent that I can go up and down again in time.”
Missing infrastructure
Roderich Kiesewetter, a former general staff official of the German army and a member of the federal government (Parliament), who also serves on its Foreign Affairs Committee, said Canadian Energy has few disadvantages related to the United States and Russia.
“Raising funds for Canada and getting Canadian fossil energy and liquefied natural gas is better than paying indirectly Russia’s energy and natural gas.
But Canada also has a problem: the lack of infrastructure to gain European energy.
“There are no ports. They lack pipelines. But, joint investments, European investors and Canadian joint ventures may be the way out,” he said.
Kiesewetter told CBC News that the partnership should be military and economic.
“Why shouldn’t Canada be a third party that contributes to European security, and the EU has contributed to Canadian security?” he said.
“In the 1980s and 1990s, the German army was in Shilo [Manitoba] And have performed brigade level exercises on your territory. Why shouldn’t we revive? ”
Sanctuary from Russian missiles
Canada could provide something else for Europe, Leuprecht said.
“Canada provides deep defense. It’s much harder to hit the country with missiles,” he said.
Canada’s huge terrain not only provides unique possibilities for training European troops, including low-level flight training that is nearly impossible in Europe, but also plays an important role in regathering in Europe.
“You have to make things, ammunition, tanks, etc.” “Where are you going to make it?”
Can Canada’s defense support be moved to Europe as the Western alliance under U.S. President Donald Trump erode? As CBC’s Evan Dyer explains, the country’s underintensified army doesn’t have much in terms of the presence of troops, but there are other things that Europe needs.
During the darkest period of the war, Canada helped to bring the British Federal Reserve and arm the Nazi occupation.
“We have seen in Ukraine that these ongoing missile attacks can completely eliminate the entire industry,” Shea said. “Europe will invest in air defense and ballistic missile defense, but you will never cover it.”
He said Canada could provide a relative safe haven for European military assets and a mineral supply line that is essential to modern weapons technology.
“In every crisis, there is a chance. Of course, this is an opportunity for Europe and Canada to get closer together,” he said.
Flowers, flowers, flowers
“So the news [from Canada] “We will do two things for our allies: defense and energy security. But, rewarding, you have to back down now,” Leuprecht said.
He said European governments are regrouping on a large scale into economic opportunities for their own young people.
“The military claims on the table of Starmer’s contribution to the British peacekeeping force in Ukraine will lose as much as one percent of GDP,” he said.
“He is selling this and you can see videos online saying this defense investment will create good jobs for the British. We will create engineering jobs. We will innovate. It’s good for the UK. You know, I see there are no Canadian politicians selling this here.
“If I were a politician, I would say every factory in Canada was going bankrupt and we would figure out how to make it part of the defense industrial complex and how it would be available to European partners.”
