David Frum
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And there was allegedly blood on his hands.
But still, it's bad form.
And the Chinese do even worse things, interfering Canadian elections.
They harass, intimidate and kidnap sometimes Canadians of Chinese origin who speak out in ways that the Chinese state doesn't like.
But so what Carney is saying is, look, China and India, obviously bigger problems in the United States.
But the Americans are also a threat.
And so Canada needs it's like a problem in geometry where you need to stay away from all three points of the triangle.
The triangle of danger.
But it used to be you wanted to be as close to that safety point and it's no longer safety.
That's what Carney's message was.
Not that Canada is going to become China's ally.
I think there are two tracks, a military track and the political track.
And I think the military track is going, and again, I'm not an expert on this, but in my impression, the military track is going much, much better than you would gather from following most conventional American opinion, whether legacy media or new media.
The United States and Israel are successfully โ they have neutralized Iranian air defense.
They are eliminating Iran's ability to do offensive attacks.
Those attacks are becoming more ragged, more poorly aimed.
And the Iranians are being pressed to do stupid things like shoot at everybody, including the Turks, whom they shouldn't be shooting at.
People โ they ought to be looking to make some kind of ally out of โ they've made an enemy out of the Turks.
They're making an enemy out of the Gulf states.
And the Israelis in particular are destroying the security apparatus of the regime, but with these highly targeted attacks on checkpoints, on officials who have done monstrous crimes.