How Canada made ourselves complicit in this attack on Iran
And how Carney's foolishness could invite retaliation against us.
Israel and the United States started a war with Iran two days ago. After engaging in the false pretense of diplomacy in talks mediated by Oman, the Yankee-Israeli Coalition launched a “preemptive strike”, known more commonly to the average person as “shooting first”. This attack was a flagrant violation of international law, as there is no evidence Iran sought to strike them first, and it was unauthorized by the UN Security Council, the only two conditions which permit military action.
In a first round of air strikes, motivated in part by Israeli religious extremism, the Yankee-Israeli Coalition forces decapitated the leadership of Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, his daughter, son-in-law and grandson, aligned Iranian military and intelligence commanders, and a slew of innocent bystanders.
Iran, for it’s part, has launched retaliatory strikes not only against Israel, but against every Gulf state hosting a U.S. military base, as those bases are legitimate military targets for response under international law. The Coalition has launched a second wave of strikes on Iran, while the theocracy, which has always been a larger institution than just Khamenei the individual, actively works to select the next Supreme Leader of Iran, ensuring continuity of government.
In their various strikes, the Yankee-Israeli Coalition struck not only military targets in Iran, but also civilian ones, including a girls’ elementary school in the city of Minab where over 180 young Iranian girls died as a result. In terms of economic shocks, oil prices have spiked rapidly on commodities markets, as Iran has now blockaded the Strait of Hormuz, significantly restricting the global supply of crude. This will have very serious humanitarian consequences in developing nations around the world.
Notably, it appears Canada had at least a few hours of foreknowledge that the Coalition would strike, by virtue of Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand’s statement with just hours of lead time before the strike telling Canadians in Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Iran to get out immediately. And just two weeks earlier, Anand had told the press that Canada will only have relations with Iran after “regime change. Period.”
Mind you, rather than warn of the initial strike that we knew to some extent was coming—not that the amassment of Yankee military assets surrounding Iran wasn’t already visible from space—Canada’s government gave a public stamp of approval once the endeavour had begun.
Prime Minister Carney released a statement parroting U.S. talking points surrounding Iran and nuclear weapons, insisting that “Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.”
After supporting similar violent U.S. decapitation strikes against Maduro in Venezuela, it shouldn’t be surprising that Carney is firmly in a Yankee collaborationist mode. When he proclaimed the death of the rules-based international order at Davos, it was not a lament, but rather a warning that international law was now, in Carney’s perspective, a luxury belief that we cannot afford.
But former Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, who served under the Jean Chrétien Premiership from 1996 to 2000, castigated Carney for the short-sighted foolishness of this stance. He describes Canada as invoking these international systems of rules against adversaries like Russia, but supporting these same violations when they are perpetuated by the United States.
In Axworthy’s own words, “for a country that depends on law more than force for it’s [sic] own security, that is not realism; it is recklessness.” And he is right, in that Canada does not have any military deterrent against the United States, and thus it is incredibly foolish to erode the system of international norms that protects us from being forcibly transformed into the 51st State.
But in terms of Canadian complicity, it gets far worse than foreknowledge. The CBC reports that up to 18 Canadian Armed Forces members were stationed at the U.S. military bases in Bahrain and Qatar on an exchange agreement with the Yankees, and retired Major-general Denis Thompson (NATO OF-7) commented that it is very likely they participated in the military targeting process. For all the public talk in Canada of “elbows up”, I don’t think most Canadians understand we’re lending many of our troops to the United States!
And in regard to the fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighter, fielded by both Israel and the United States in this conflict, Canadian companies are major parts suppliers for the program, with at least 22 systems coming from Canadian manufacturers. As such, not only did members of Canada’s military likely have some involvement in the planning, Canadian companies are essential to the planes that enforce Yankee-Israeli air supremacy over the region.
This war will have a brutal cost, whatever metrics you choose to tally with. Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged new fire, the Lebanese ally of Iran re-activating in response to the decapitation strike against Khamenei. This will spiral out into an all-engrossing conflict encompassing the entire region, because Israel and the United States are foolish enough to believe they can force regime change on a population that hates them.
Indeed, if you think that they want Iran to become a democracy, you are painfully mistaken. Iran was a democracy, and then in 1953 the United States and United Kingdom staged a coup to impose the Shah as their pro-West puppet, a brutal dictator who used his secret police to oppress the Iranian people.
Those who wish to restore the Pahlavi monarchy seek to replace the religious dictatorship with a secular dictatorship. The oppression of the Iranian people would remain the same, merely redirected towards the new goal of supporting Zionist and Yankee hegemony rather than opposing it.
And when making his case to Fox News—and to Donald Trump—Reza Pahlavi said he would provide United States corporations with USD$1 trillion in revenue once he takes over Iran, a ludicrous number that cannot be obtained through any reasonable means. He seeks to loot his country’s wealth and give it away to the Yankees.
Of course, the United States and Israel may instead opt for a chaotic and divided Iran, one which is too busy fighting itself to be a threat to their hegemony. Why else would they target Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the leader of the Green Movement who lives under house arrest for opposing Khamenei? But whether they pick a divided Iran or a puppet ruler for Iran, they reject democracy.
Why? Because Iranian democracy, which would have superior human rights to the theocracy, would ultimately still oppose Israel and the United States in the same way that the theocracy did! But the United States and Israel are fools if they think that the theocratic regime is defeated just because they killed the current leader. The regime’s structure persists despite the decapitation strike, and they are still exchanging fire with the Coalition.
Even more than the United States and Israel, though, it is the countries assisting their Coalition that have the most to fear. Iran is already in the pursuit of seeking revenge, and they have shown they are willing to punish Gulf states and consider them complicit with the Coalition. What is to stop Iran from targeting Western nations that have helped the Coalition?
Prime Minister Carney should never have continued troop exchange with the United States once we openly acknowledged they flout international law. Nor should he have continued to supply parts for the F-35 when those jets would be used by Israel against their neighbours, and by the United States against us. And he certainly should not have made an official statement in support of the Coalition strikes on Iran.
Because with all of these factors together, how could Iran not consider us complicit? We’re helping, and we’re publicly approving!
I cannot overstate the danger here. Carney is sleepwalking our country into a global conflict. We are making ourselves a target for Iranian retaliation, because we are not brave enough to tell the Yankees “no”.
This is going to be a disaster, and I fear it is already too late to pump the brakes.