in World News Weekend Parting Shot: Britain Will Protect Canada From… Us?
by Lincoln Brown
Happy Friday, Gentle Readers,
I pray this missive finds you well. Spring cleaning was on the docket for this weekend at Stately Brown Manor. However, we got about two inches of snow overnight in a later winter storm. We have a few days before it melts and the backyard dries out. We have two dogs, and as dog owners will tell you, dogs + wet backyard = nothing stays clean for long.
Fear of a nuclear Britain
Conservatives and everyone with an IQ incrementally higher than that of a ficus tree know that Donald Trump often engages in hyperbole as a negotiating tactic and sometimes just for the sport of it. That said, if one is a progressive, Democrat, liberal, or whatever term one uses in one’s country of residence, a jape from President Trump is tantamount to one of the signs of the Apocalypse. Then again, these folx are so addicted to making every event in the world the subject of the next telenovela that they may actually believe it.
For allegedly being the world’s cultural and intellectual betters, they wouldn’t know a joke if it crawled up their legs and bit them on a part they were planning on having removed during transition surgery. To steal a line from the TV version of “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,” these people are so unhip it’s a wonder their butts don’t fall off.
Speaking of jokes, things may be a little tense with Canada over tariffs at the moment, but everyone knows that the U.S. isn’t going to make Canada the 51st state and that Justin Trudeau is still the Prime Minister until the election. Okay, there is a joke there, but I’ll let you hash that out in the comments section.
That, however, did not stop a member of Trudeau’s Liberal party from suggesting that her country strengthen ties with the U.K. Her rationale? The U.K. and NATO could use nukes — yes, nukes — to protect Canada from Donald Trump. Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau’s former deputy prime minister and a candidate for her boss’s former slot, feels that the threat of Trump annexing the Great White North is dire enough to merit potential military intervention from NATO and the United Kingdom.
From The Telegraph:
In order to “guarantee our security,” Ms. Freeland said she would build closer security partnerships with European NATO allies and “I would be sure that France and Britain were there, who possess nuclear weapons.”
“I would be working urgently with those partners to build a closer security relationship… in a time when the United States can be a threat,” said the ex-foreign minister and finance minister at the final Liberal leadership debate last week.
Who knew TDS was so contagious?
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had a few thoughts:
“I think that that was an insane thing to say. As if somehow we’re going to have a nuclear threat from the United States or counter some kind of nuclear threat,” Ms. Smith told The Telegraph.
“The U.S. is our friend and allied security partner,” she said, citing the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) alliance, in which Canada and the United States share air defense of the continent.
“During 9/11, it was a Canadian commander that was giving direction on North American airspace on where those planes needed to land [he redirected U.S. air traffic to Canadian bases]. That’s how integrated we are on the security front.”
“So anyone suggesting otherwise is just being silly.”