Why America Doesn’t Need “Allies”
The title is a bit crude and is deliberately mocking in tone. But it has to be because there is a deeply-entrenched, almost sacred presumption embedded in the nation’s foreign policy catechism that “allies”, “alliances” and “coalitions of the willing” are the be-all-and-end-all of enlightened, necessary and effective foreign policy.
American policy-makers and diplomats perforce should therefore never leave these shores for the wider world without them. This dogma perhaps reached its epitome in Secretary of State James Baker’s “coalition of the willing” during the utterly pointless first Gulf War of 1991 and has plagued us ever since. Unfortunately.
In fact, the truth is more nearly the opposite–so it needs to be stated coarsely, almost defiantly. To wit, allies in today’s world are mostly an albat...
https://internationalman.com/articles/david-stockman-on-why-america-doesnt-need-allies/
Recall petitions miss the mark
the real issue is our Westminster system
Recall petitions won’t fix Bill 2 or party discipline. They expose a deeper misunderstanding of how Alberta’s system works.
Was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission what it appeared to be?
https://wokewatchcanada.substack.com/p/was-the-truth-and-reconciliation
