European nations are invoking the language of sovereignty and resistance to Trump while maintaining or remain or even intensifying the structures of dependency — first and foremost NATO itself
Further to underline the farce, is that "NATO" or no "NATO", many European countries are operating under direct bilateral military agreements with the yanks that can turn entire sections of their countries into US-military-controlled territories, at the drop of a hat.
The agreements makes "NATO" look like childsplay. What we are talking about here here is bilateral agreements in which the US can do what it wants, bring in troops, contractors, weapons, control bases and even control entire regions of the country under martial law - the residents of these places would be under....US....martial....law.
Most of these agreements are newly signed e.g Sweden, and Norway. While Denmark itself under its CURRENT government re-signed such an agreement just this past summer.
Here is some example of what such an agreement, for Norway entails: (use translation tool)
"...The agreement has also attracted criticism from several quarters. Particularly controversial is the clause stipulating that US military personnel will be subject to US jurisdiction, even if they commit crimes against civilians in Denmark. Several opposition politicians have pointed out that this undermines the rule of law and goes against Danish legal tradition.
Shortly before the vote, the leader of the Unity List, Pelle Dragsted, said that the agreement is "harmful to the country".
– It is an agreement that means that we will have areas in Denmark that are under American jurisdiction. Where Danish authorities cannot exercise control. And where mistreatment of prisoners can occur. It is a gigantic failure towards the Danish population...."
Bear in mind: these are just the PUBLICLY known parts of these Defense Cooperation Agreements (DCAs). Only god knows what horrors lies in further top secret annexes.
Canada so has many of these types of agreements, including one in which the entirety of Canadian airspace is controlled as US controlled airspace.
For Mette Fredriksen or Jonas Gahr Store or Carney whomever else to talk abut "sovereignity, while all FULLY KNOWING they have signed away themselves to vassalhood, is really an insulty to anyone intelligent.
That the media in all these countries can make a fuss about this while refusing to put under the spotlight, all these agreements which go FAR beyond NATO, is an utter joke. A farce.
The missing piece, I would argue, is the subordination of all NATO governments, including the US, to transnational corporate and oligarchical interests. Yes, the US being the headquarters of many of them makes it seems like the national and corporate interests align, but if you look at what US government-corporate (inseparable at this point) policies are doing to the US population (surveillance, censorship, de-ownership, essential serfdom) they are identical to those across NATO (and perhaps everywhere).
It’s the eternal populations vs. elites struggle, just on a global instead of national level.
The US vs EU charade is just another iteration of the manufactured binaries (Rep/Dem, liberal/conservative, etc) intentionally injected to keep us distracted from the real controllers: transnational banking and corporate interests, for whom NATO is just a mercenary enforcement arm - as we learned from the global Covid operation.
I think Canada needs to upgrade its military capability to that of a medium-ranking power before arch-globalist Carney makes any more performative gestures.
Canada can only ever be a vassal state. Every word Carney otherwise utters is a lie. Pure stage performance. These kinds of agreements are not ones that Canada could ever exit or rethink.
The NORAD agreement is one of the four main defence agreements between Canada and the United States.
Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD): Formed in 1940 to advise the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of the United States. It covers defence policy issues about defence and security of North America;
Military Cooperation Committee: Formed in 1945 to revise the Canada-U.S. Defence Plan for security after World War 2. It now is the main link between the key military staffs of Canada and the U.S.;
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD): Formed in 1958 to monitor and defend North American airspace. Its mission was expanded in 2006 to include maritime warning; and
Tri Command: A working agreement between the Canadian Joint Operations Command, the United States Northern Command, and NORAD. Tri Command is responsible for the defence of North America and making it safe and secure. They have missions that balance each other, in the air and on the ground. They work side by side to meet their individual and common goals. They meet and hold staff talks each year on operations, exercises and plans.
Carney is not a "globalist" - he is, as his US bosss stated: the local (colonial) governor of Canada.
As a Canadian, I could not agree more. In an ideal world, Canada would be able to be a genuine independent middle power, but geography and demography dictate otherwise. As the country with the second-largest land mass in the world, a population barely above 40 million, and a 5,000 km land border with the USA, we have only two real possibilities: continue to be a largely self-governing member of the American Empire (as we were of the British Empire before WWII), or be formally annexed by the USA. Anything else is delusional wishful thinking.
As if Canada could. Given that around 70% of our trade is with the USA, the USA could shut down our economy tomorrow if they wanted to. They wouldn't even have to invade us. The brutal fact is that Canada cannot defend the massive land mass that we are by ourselves given our small population and pathetically small military. Moreover, with Canada directly north of the continental USA, over which any direct air or missile attack against the USA would come from Asia, the USA has to control Canadian air space.
Thomas, you were mentioned favorably on The Duran yesterday. My hope (and theirs) is that we can transition to global multipolarity, BRICS-style, without the West having a hissy fit and destroying the planet in protest. The West should wake up and join BRICS (i.e., lay down its arms and stop with the endless sanctions). You laid out quite clearly why Carney stopped VERY short of suggesting this.
This entire discussion of "sovereginity" is a farce.
To begin with: Greenland has nothing to do with Denmark, other than that the Daniish colonized Greenland centuries ago and are keeping their claws on it. They now pretend it is "self governing"...while claiming it is a "part of the Kingdom of Denmark" (again look at the map) and while claiming that Denmark controls the foreign policy of Greenland
Any discussion of sovereginity in Europe would have to begin by European countries first taking own claws off of Greenland. And off the Azores. And off the Canary Islands. Melilla. And Reunion. And Martinque. And Guadeloupe. And Diego Garcia. And off many other places that European countries are CURRENTLY colonizing.
To even countenance discussion of sovereginity in this state, renders the word meaningless.
A european no more wants to be sovereign than does a dog. Rather, he wants to stand, shoulder to shinbone with his American Master, barking furiously and overstating his importance.
Carney is butthurt to find that canada and europe aren't pets, they're on the menu, too.
Further to underline the farce, is that "NATO" or no "NATO", many European countries are operating under direct bilateral military agreements with the yanks that can turn entire sections of their countries into US-military-controlled territories, at the drop of a hat.
The agreements makes "NATO" look like childsplay. What we are talking about here here is bilateral agreements in which the US can do what it wants, bring in troops, contractors, weapons, control bases and even control entire regions of the country under martial law - the residents of these places would be under....US....martial....law.
Most of these agreements are newly signed e.g Sweden, and Norway. While Denmark itself under its CURRENT government re-signed such an agreement just this past summer.
Here is some example of what such an agreement, for Norway entails: (use translation tool)
https://lovdata.no/dokument/TRAKTAT/traktat/2021-04-16-3
https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/kglres_forsvarssamarbeid/id2845034/
And its supplementary agreement (Supplementary Defense Cooperation Agreement (SDCA)):
https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/enighet-med-usa-om-a-oppetter-flere-omforente-omrader/id3023829/
Here is the Danish one:
https://www.fmn.dk/globalassets/fmn/dokumenter/nyheder/2023/-us-denmark-dca-den-prime-english-20dec2023-.pdf
https://www.fmn.dk/globalassets/fmn/dokumenter/nyheder/2023/-faktaark-om-aftalen-med-usa-fmn-og-um-.pdf
Note: "...USA har i de seneste år indgået lignende aftaler med en række euro-
pæiske allierede, herunder Bulgarien, Estland, Letland, Litauen, Norge,
Polen og Tjekkiet. For nylig har Sverige og Finland undertegnet bilaterale forsvarssamar-
bejdsaftaler med USA......"
https://www.dw.com/en/denmark-finalizes-us-defense-deal-despite-greenland-gripes/a-73210846
https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-denmark/
https://nordictimes.com/world/denmark-signs-defense-pact-enabling-us-military-presence-in-greenland-and-faroe-islands/
PUBLISHED JUNE 12, 2025
"...The agreement has also attracted criticism from several quarters. Particularly controversial is the clause stipulating that US military personnel will be subject to US jurisdiction, even if they commit crimes against civilians in Denmark. Several opposition politicians have pointed out that this undermines the rule of law and goes against Danish legal tradition.
Shortly before the vote, the leader of the Unity List, Pelle Dragsted, said that the agreement is "harmful to the country".
– It is an agreement that means that we will have areas in Denmark that are under American jurisdiction. Where Danish authorities cannot exercise control. And where mistreatment of prisoners can occur. It is a gigantic failure towards the Danish population...."
Bear in mind: these are just the PUBLICLY known parts of these Defense Cooperation Agreements (DCAs). Only god knows what horrors lies in further top secret annexes.
Canada so has many of these types of agreements, including one in which the entirety of Canadian airspace is controlled as US controlled airspace.
For Mette Fredriksen or Jonas Gahr Store or Carney whomever else to talk abut "sovereignity, while all FULLY KNOWING they have signed away themselves to vassalhood, is really an insulty to anyone intelligent.
That the media in all these countries can make a fuss about this while refusing to put under the spotlight, all these agreements which go FAR beyond NATO, is an utter joke. A farce.
Thanks as always for the excellent analysis!
The missing piece, I would argue, is the subordination of all NATO governments, including the US, to transnational corporate and oligarchical interests. Yes, the US being the headquarters of many of them makes it seems like the national and corporate interests align, but if you look at what US government-corporate (inseparable at this point) policies are doing to the US population (surveillance, censorship, de-ownership, essential serfdom) they are identical to those across NATO (and perhaps everywhere).
It’s the eternal populations vs. elites struggle, just on a global instead of national level.
The US vs EU charade is just another iteration of the manufactured binaries (Rep/Dem, liberal/conservative, etc) intentionally injected to keep us distracted from the real controllers: transnational banking and corporate interests, for whom NATO is just a mercenary enforcement arm - as we learned from the global Covid operation.
The class struggle? dare I suggest as elucidated by Karl Marx in 1848?
I think Canada needs to upgrade its military capability to that of a medium-ranking power before arch-globalist Carney makes any more performative gestures.
Canada can only ever be a vassal state. Every word Carney otherwise utters is a lie. Pure stage performance. These kinds of agreements are not ones that Canada could ever exit or rethink.
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/operations/allies-partners/norad.html
Canada and United States defence agreements
The NORAD agreement is one of the four main defence agreements between Canada and the United States.
Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD): Formed in 1940 to advise the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of the United States. It covers defence policy issues about defence and security of North America;
Military Cooperation Committee: Formed in 1945 to revise the Canada-U.S. Defence Plan for security after World War 2. It now is the main link between the key military staffs of Canada and the U.S.;
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD): Formed in 1958 to monitor and defend North American airspace. Its mission was expanded in 2006 to include maritime warning; and
Tri Command: A working agreement between the Canadian Joint Operations Command, the United States Northern Command, and NORAD. Tri Command is responsible for the defence of North America and making it safe and secure. They have missions that balance each other, in the air and on the ground. They work side by side to meet their individual and common goals. They meet and hold staff talks each year on operations, exercises and plans.
Carney is not a "globalist" - he is, as his US bosss stated: the local (colonial) governor of Canada.
As a Canadian, I could not agree more. In an ideal world, Canada would be able to be a genuine independent middle power, but geography and demography dictate otherwise. As the country with the second-largest land mass in the world, a population barely above 40 million, and a 5,000 km land border with the USA, we have only two real possibilities: continue to be a largely self-governing member of the American Empire (as we were of the British Empire before WWII), or be formally annexed by the USA. Anything else is delusional wishful thinking.
So what would the cost be to Canada of reneging on these agreements?
As if Canada could. Given that around 70% of our trade is with the USA, the USA could shut down our economy tomorrow if they wanted to. They wouldn't even have to invade us. The brutal fact is that Canada cannot defend the massive land mass that we are by ourselves given our small population and pathetically small military. Moreover, with Canada directly north of the continental USA, over which any direct air or missile attack against the USA would come from Asia, the USA has to control Canadian air space.
Thomas, you were mentioned favorably on The Duran yesterday. My hope (and theirs) is that we can transition to global multipolarity, BRICS-style, without the West having a hissy fit and destroying the planet in protest. The West should wake up and join BRICS (i.e., lay down its arms and stop with the endless sanctions). You laid out quite clearly why Carney stopped VERY short of suggesting this.
Asymmetric warfare is both cheaper and more effective than the military-industrial complex in respect of defence.
NATO is only "needed" for aggressive imperialism.
This entire discussion of "sovereginity" is a farce.
To begin with: Greenland has nothing to do with Denmark, other than that the Daniish colonized Greenland centuries ago and are keeping their claws on it. They now pretend it is "self governing"...while claiming it is a "part of the Kingdom of Denmark" (again look at the map) and while claiming that Denmark controls the foreign policy of Greenland
Any discussion of sovereginity in Europe would have to begin by European countries first taking own claws off of Greenland. And off the Azores. And off the Canary Islands. Melilla. And Reunion. And Martinque. And Guadeloupe. And Diego Garcia. And off many other places that European countries are CURRENTLY colonizing.
To even countenance discussion of sovereginity in this state, renders the word meaningless.
A european no more wants to be sovereign than does a dog. Rather, he wants to stand, shoulder to shinbone with his American Master, barking furiously and overstating his importance.
Carney is butthurt to find that canada and europe aren't pets, they're on the menu, too.
Check your email my friend!