"What is our gas doing under your toundra?"
I guess that the US should ask Canada the same question.
We are told by neoliberals that interdependence brings peace, because it makes war to costly to fight.
Yet, we have counterevidence in what's happening with Russia and "Europe."
I happen to be off the opinion that its best for nations to have control over the means to provide their most basic needs.
Which means that the nation that most resort to trade for the means to eat, be clothed, or not freeze to death must realize that in doing this is renders control over its destiny to foreigners.
And either nation can use that link to wreak hell on the other, and that suggests to me that autarky in essential econonomic activities is more likely to result in peace that the show of dueling pistols that interdependence often turns out to be. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
More likely it is a strategy for the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. The US doesn't "!need" to control the 100+ countries it has stationed its forces in - however that is the means its elite have chosen to promote their interests - which involves the ever increasing accumulation of wealth/power for its own sake.
The reality is that small nations are in no position to resist this - hence rendition flights. We need strong supra national organisations - and the promotion of supranational self interests - to enhance the ability of smaller nations to promote their own self interest.
There is nothing natural about the "Nation state" as the unit for anything, and the more the world integrates, the more unnatural it becomes. It's time I got out of this game....
