I genuinely think the EU should schedule a session in the very near future for the EU Council to discuss inviting Canada to apply for membership. From an altruistic perspective, they could really use our help. From a selfish perspective, the USA will come after us again soon (he always asks for more) and we will benefit from greater solidarity. My one concern is that the USA will spin this as a hostile act (that we in the EU are trying to “encircle” it) and use it to justify responding with aggression, but it seems that no amount of appeasement can stop the USA from escalating its aggression (its entire posture is that a predator softening up prey for a later kill, like a komodo dragon), so we might as well take steps to prepare ourselves and our allies for it now while we still can. If we still can. We might already have waited too long.
I genuinely think the EU should schedule a session in the very near future for the EU Council to discuss inviting Canada to apply for membership. From an altruistic perspective, they could really use our help. From a selfish perspective, the USA will come after us again soon (he always asks for more) and we will benefit from greater solidarity. My one concern is that the USA will spin this as a hostile act (that we in the EU are trying to “encircle” it) and use it to justify responding with aggression, but it seems that no amount of appeasement can stop the USA from escalating its aggression (its entire posture is that a predator softening up prey for a later kill, like a komodo dragon), so we might as well take steps to prepare ourselves and our allies for it now while we still can. If we still can. We might already have waited too long.