Canada was Ground Zero for the beginning of the first Cold War. We'll soon find out if we're fated to be Ground Zero for the beginning of the next one. #IgorGouzenko #MengWanzhou

Regardless of the outcome, it's clear that our elites, many of whom swore that Saddam had WMDs & nukes, will demand that Canada once again carry water for America's arrogation of global "moral leadership" in the fight against yet another existentially threatening Asiatic horde.

It's difficult to tell whether this new Cold War will be as destructive as the last, which saw millions slaughtered from Indochina to Afghanistan--all to ensure that the Russkies didn't parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. But it's likely to have equally degrading effects on Canada.

Hardly an outrage against Canadian civil liberties & human dignity occurred in the last century that wasn't inspired by the Cold War or anti-communist paranoia: the suppression of progressive political organising/speech, the persecution of gays on "national security" grounds...

...the mass surveillance of law-abiding citizens (often at the request of the US), Duplessis' anti-progressive Grande Noirceur, & the mass arrests of the October Crisis are just a few. In terms of individual tragedy, we must mention Herbert Norman. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Herbert_Norman

If the potential global destructiveness of Cold War II is too remote a consideration, think of how the 1st Red Scare degraded our society & imagine that kind of disfiguration but amplified tenfold by our greater technological capacity for destruction & the US descent into madness

Just something to ruminate upon the next time some CPC shill or NatPost hack calls for all-out war because the CCP aren't very nice fellows.