Was it always this way?
“It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are incapable of fulfilling this duty use the smokescreen of war to hide their failure and, in the process, line the pockets of a select few – the same ones as always; the only ones who profit when the world stops building hospitals and starts building missiles,” Spanish PM Sanchez said.
- A lone battle: Why is Pedro Sánchez the only European leader to take on Trump?, Guardian
Many observers thought Canada was turning to a principled foreign policy, championing universal liberal values such as democracy, justice, human rights and the rule of law. It seemed as though Canada was coming to the defence of a rules-based order, and this was helping it regain significant international prestige. So it came as a shock when Carney offered immediate support to an illegal U.S.-Israel war of aggression against Iran on Feb. 28.
By Gregg Wall (3-7-2026)
If anyone had any doubts about where PM Carney stood… ethically, morally, politically… all doubt was erased this week. On the 28th of February Carney came out with full throated support for Team Genocide’s latest war with Iran… where the spirits of 160 Iranian school girls were promptly dispatched & released by American bombs and munitions. Carney, on world tour, drumming up trade, backpedaled and qualified his endorsement “with regret”, saying international law must be respected, only to backpedal yet again, stating he would support the Americans if called upon (in some capacity). Carney appears to have missed the obvious contradiction of calling out the end of the rules-based order/international law last January at Davos and asking the Americans & Israelis to abide by same in their latest assault upon the planet.
Carney... the Goldman Sachs bankster, Central Banker extraordinaire, and Brookfield private equity chairman… has been showing his cards now for some time: elected by Trump; kowtowed to Trump ever since; dealing with Alberta’s far-right government; cutting deals with the oil patch – just this week giving Alberta charge over O&G regulatory matters; trashing environmental and green standards on behalf of American owned Alberta O&G; passing C-5 which basically trashed rules, regs, and fast tracked corporate control, domination, and violence over Canada. What a guy? So, it should have surprised no one that Carney endorsed 160 souls of children wafting up to the heavens, now “with regret.”
Into the void and the vacuum left by Carney, and his coalition of middling powers, charged the PM of Spain, Mr. Sanchez, who earned Trump’s rage for not supporting Netanyahu’s latest war efforts by forbidding US bases in Spain from being used to bomb Iranian targets. PM Sanchez said “No To War.” Trump knows that he needs the EU, Canada, and Five Eyes nations more than he’s let on and immediately threatened Spain with the elimination of trade. Fortunately for Spain, it does very little, or relatively little trade with the Americans. Macron and Starmer also pushed back on Trump’s latest conflict. Rebellion and dissent are contagious. As for Trump, he slides lower and lower in the polls: his economy is shambolic, his tariffs a disaster, DOGE a failure, debt and deficits soar, and affordability and gas prices are about to become a huge headache for the failure in the White House. And the ghost of Epstein is everywhere. Dems in Congress appear to be sharpening their knives, zero interest in acknowledge the duopoly’s laundry list of failures, but sharpening their knives… the Ides of March is so very close. November is so very far away. Every day new chaos, new hell as Trump desperately attempts to shake the Epstein files.
Was it always this way? Have nation-states always kowtowed to the American government? Have U.S. allies always backed off repeatedly on taxing American tech behemoths, went along with the United States' latest war or Middle East assault, latest land & resource grab, greater theft of oil and gas resources, terms of trade dictated by U.S. multinationals and Wall St.? If we Google that question, that answer is affirmative, going back to WW2. To be sure, America doesn’t always get its way, but my guess is America gets its heavy-handed way more often than not.
Why would any nation, middle power or great power, tolerate U.S. hegemony that has devolved into tyranny over time, culminating in Donald Trump? What are the opportunity costs for Europe and Five Eyes nations, the foregone jobs & tax revenue, the industries it doesn’t dare encroach upon for fear of upsetting the United States, the money spent on the military at U.S. direction, the debt and deficits to fund military spending at U.S. direction… knowing full well that money could be better invested and spent elsewhere or saved for a rainy day? The tech industry the Americans forbid Canada and Europe from starting up, under the guise or premise that it’s a threat to national security?
America has been blessed, and cursed by a great many gifts, not the least of which is exorbitant privilege, a great and wonderful stolen land that it has poisoned. All that, and a voter base that has been thoroughly brainwashed into believing socialism is bad, bootstraps and rugged individualism are good. This, as America’s billionaire class owe their vast wealth to endless socialism, government… debt, deficits, and money printing… and economic, fiscal, judicial, monetary, regulatory, and tax policy capture and control.
And there’s the U.S. military which sucks up a greater and greater percentage of discretionary spending. Americans have been fed the narcotic of exceptionalism… and yet, Americans see, that we are anything but exceptional. No, we are losers.
There are signs of dissent, signs of rebellion everywhere… from Minnesota to the Capital of Spain, Madrid, and of course, BRICS. Trump and the oligarchy… Adelson, Musk, Thiel, in particular… are in a race against time. But the public doesn’t share the oligarchy’s dreams of technates, spheres of influence, billionaire autocracy, freedom cities, global domination and control. And the public certainly does not support Israeli/Zionist occupation. We’ve arrived: twilight's last gleaming, the sun setting on an empire that is long past its prime, a bankrupt empire the majority of the American people increasingly regret every waking moment. For Americans, the empire is ever present, often unnamable for many, a dark presence, watching & waiting, a nightmare, seen in grocery store aisles and gas stations with skyrocketing prices, soaring rents, the cryptic knowledge that the nation is completely off the rails and terminal. The pain and suffering delivered to other nations, rebounds and returns home, as blowback, payback, retribution. The Super Bowl flyovers, the star-spangled deceit, and the mutilated bodies of US service personnel returning in flag draped caskets… courtesy of a U.S. government, oligarchy, & two-party leadership that could not possibly care less. What the trash in the White House refers to as “losers.”
And yet, the resistance carries on. And on that note, let’s praise the courage and the will of PM Sanchez.
Let’s celebrate dissent & rebellion, let’s celebrate the word, NO, the Iranian people that Trump pretended to care about. Let’s acknowledge the Iranian military that will not go quietly into that good night, let’s celebrate the ticking of the clock, the soaring U.S. national debt, and yes, even the clown in the White House - who foolishly hastens us all to end of a lie.
Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2026