Thanks for this -- as with your other articles, I hope people are paying close attention and giving this some thought.
As I focus on systems rather than individuals, I don’t see the current Trump regime as unique within British North American settler-colonial governance. I also don't think of time in terms of human lifespans, so don't narrowly look at recent decades.
Southern colonial governments have always coveted northern resources. In my mind there isn’t a major difference between the unilateral imposition of the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments (gerrymandered to claim jurisdiction as north-south rather than east-west) by the Dominion of Canada government in 1905 and the potential creation of new northern US states by the US government in 2030.
The precedent of expansion doesn't require anything recent or on another continent (such as discussing Russia), as expansion into what the British Empire labelled as the North Western Territories without FPIC of existing inhabitents and their governments already provided the precedent.
The war of 1812 was merely on pause - "cold" rather than "hot". The myths and ideologies never really changed, and it has been my observation that most "Canadians" believe the origin myths the US government has been pushing since the 1700's.
Thanks for this -- as with your other articles, I hope people are paying close attention and giving this some thought.
As I focus on systems rather than individuals, I don’t see the current Trump regime as unique within British North American settler-colonial governance. I also don't think of time in terms of human lifespans, so don't narrowly look at recent decades.
Southern colonial governments have always coveted northern resources. In my mind there isn’t a major difference between the unilateral imposition of the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments (gerrymandered to claim jurisdiction as north-south rather than east-west) by the Dominion of Canada government in 1905 and the potential creation of new northern US states by the US government in 2030.
https://r.flora.ca/p/alberta
The precedent of expansion doesn't require anything recent or on another continent (such as discussing Russia), as expansion into what the British Empire labelled as the North Western Territories without FPIC of existing inhabitents and their governments already provided the precedent.
The war of 1812 was merely on pause - "cold" rather than "hot". The myths and ideologies never really changed, and it has been my observation that most "Canadians" believe the origin myths the US government has been pushing since the 1700's.