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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 14 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

as they also can’t solve the cause

No I'm saying they can fight the cause but they don't.

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Ok, we'll just send troops to Israel? Or is that just more imperialism that people like you cry about?

[–] orioler25@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Canada is already imperialistic in Palestine by cooperating with Israel and the US, which is its role in that imperialist project. Imperialism isn't just "when big bad guy invades with troops" like in your Saturday morning Star Wars cartoons, it's a system of power the functions to subordinate other groups of people to the benefit of a privileged metropole so that the resources on the land those people exist on can be extracted (as well as their labour). Or do you think it makes you sound like a pragmatic realist to pretend you're too dumb to know that?

Canada literally hosts companies that are Israeli owned or contribute to Israels genocide campaign and the state invests in Israeli businesses, the fucking CPPIB increased its investment in Israeli businesses, which amounts to tens of billions of dollars; how fucking much of a performance does dedicating a fraction of that to "aid" seem to be to you now?

You aren't a serious person, stop talking about serious topics.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 points 16 hours ago

The by-the-books-written-by-imperialists non-imperial answer is a UN peacekeeping mission. Canada might provide the mission with troops, but they would be operating under a UN mandate, likely to enforce a two-state solution with hard-specified borders. All this would take is for the US, UK, and France to not veto a resolution to organize a peacekeeping mission.

The isolationist non-imperial answer is to stop funding Israel and see what happens.

The actual anti-imperial answer is to give land back to native people, replace capitalism with voluntary association, and decentralize military infrastructure, so people that live in Canada are resilient to invasion but their capacity to project force is limited to individual initiative with the support of a community.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works -1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, there's no chance that Canada can "fight the cause". The only way to do so would be to declare war on Israel, and therefore the US, which would very quickly result in us no longer being able to even think about the symptoms we were previously trying to treat.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Given our commitment to standing up for middle powers, it does make sense that we'd get involved in the war on the side of Iran/Lebanon.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There's absolutely zero fucking chance Canada gets involved on the side of Iran. Even without the fallout from the US, the Canadian public would be justifiably livid.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Better than being on the US side.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You might be suicidal, but the vast majority of the country isn't. And even if the US wouldn't just curb stomp us, I (and a lot of other Canadians ) would be furious with our government supporting any theocratic government. And yes, I do include the current Israeli government in that statement.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I wasn't the Canadian leader who said we need to unite middle powers to fight super powers when they get picked on.

[–] WizardGed@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

"No room for context or nuance allowed right! If the rule isn't applied the exact same way even for oppressive regimes might as well not help anyone!" - you I guess

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

We're not helping our ally Cuba either.

[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

We've had 80 years of diplomatic relations, but i wouldn't call Cuba an ally. We've never had any formal military ties.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 hours ago

Common enemy in the US for those 80 years