Western Security State Paranoid Schizophrenic Lunacy on Full Display

The Canadian Centre for International Governance Innovation provides a wonderful window into the simplistic thinking and delusional unlinked-from-reality paranoid lunacy of the Western security state apparatus. In this case a report written by Raquel Garbers, a visiting executive from the Canadian Department of National Defence where she was Director General, Strategic Defence Policy. Showing the utter vassalage of the Canadian security state, she is also a visiting practitioner at the US Department of Defense. She was the principal architect of Canada’s utterly lunatic defence policy, Our North, Strong and Free. Supposedly, her areas of expertise include “strategic military effects, geopolitical assessment and grey zone conflict”. Also a frequent public speaker on international affairs.

So let’s start with the introduction to the report, which should immediately qualify the author for a compulsory commitment to a psychological treatment facility with a preliminary diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, “I See Yellow Peril!”

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging a highly sophisticated campaign of aggression against the United States and its allies. To advance its preferred strategy of “winning without fighting,” it is leveraging its growing military power to openly harass and intimidate other states while simultaneously intensifying its below-threshold attacks on their political, economic and social systems. Intended to strike below the threshold that, if crossed, would provoke a target state to defend itself, Beijing’s belowthreshold attacks are deliberately crafted to hide its fingerprints; obscure its intent; exploit human weakness (greed, fear and so on); and make progress only in small steps (each of which is in itself seemingly inconsequential). Insofar as its use of traditional military coercion and below-threshold attacks together succeed over time in manipulating, corrupting and coercing foreign states — including at the expense of their own national interests — Beijing is effectively ensuring that they will not (or cannot) fight back

Of course the usual giveaway of using the “CCP” instead of the correct name of Communist Party of China (CPC). Exactly which other states is China openly harassing? Can’t be Taiwan, as the United States de jure accepts that it is part of China and not an independent state? Seems that she is trying to say that the CPC is so brilliant, that it can act so invisibly that only the highly attuned likes of Ms. Garbers can see its actions! Perhaps as dastardly as Fu Manchu! With impeccable English accents picked up while undercover in London, and 6 foot 5 in height, taking mind control of innocent Western women to take over the world.

Does she also have friends that we can’t see, or perhaps she sees dead people …

While the CCP’s below-threshold attacks leverage all instruments of national power — diplomatic, information, military and economic — it is especially active in its economic attacks as it understands the symbiotic relationship between economic and military power: in today’s highly integrated global order, economic activities give it easy access to the money, resources, technologies and industrial power it needs to build the coercive military strength that, in turn, backstops its economic (and other below-threshold) attacks.

So the CPC is basically doing what all other nations do, and is just being far too successful in developing its economy. Especially in upgrading the technological capacities of its economy to the point where it now challenges US dominance; competition NOT attacks. Then it has developed its defensive military capabilities to the point that the West cannot subjugate it; in Western 1984-speak making oneself resistant to Western subjugation is an “attack” upon the West. Oh and then there are those invisible “below-threshold” attacks! Yes Ms. Garbers, now swallow those pills that the psychiatrist prescribed and the Yellow Peril will no longer keep you awake at night.

The CCP’s economic warfare has played an important role in shifting global power away from the United States, with the result that fullspectrum war between the world’s major powers is no longer unimaginable. Put simply, the military and economic power gap that the United States and its allies rely on to deter hot war has been eroded. And as deterrence erodes, the risk of hotwar grows (be it by accident or by design).

Converted into non-1984 speak, China has developed to the point where it challenges Western global dominance and exploitation and that is what is driving the Western security state to consider war on China to maintain full spectrum dominance; a war that will only be because of Western aggression.

Against this backdrop, the United States faces a stark choice: make radical reforms at breakneck speed to fight back against the CCP’s “winning without fighting” strategy, or prepare to live in a world where aggressive authoritarian states call the shots. The United States has chosen to fight back, leaving its allies to face their own stark dilemma: how to ready themselves for a new global era defined by the growing risk that China’s economic warfare will trigger a hot war, and by the United States’ mounting determination, with many knock-on implications, to arrest that risk.

So, the US has a choice (i) take away the power of the oligarchs and truly transform itself into a society focused on the many that will need decades to overcome the damage wrought by decades of neoliberalism, or (ii) let the oligarchs continue to rapaciously exploit the rest of the domestic population while becoming more and more aggressive in attempting to kneecap China. In the interim, China is simply economically developing and establishing a wider and wider friendship circle due to the aggression and arrogance of the US and its vassals (such as Canada).

Near the end of the document, Ms. Garbers makes recommendations for Canada, and throws herself into an even greater level of delusional paranoia. The near frothing at the mouth suggests the need for a rabies shot!

To defend itself against attacks from China and reset its relations with the United States on terms that mitigate potential American overreach, Canada must adopt a realistic foreign policy mindset and take bold action. It must be honest with Canadians about the world as it is, expose Beijing’s long history of attacks on Canada and shut down the dangerous recurring fantasies peddled by Beijing’s “friends” about the rewards to be reaped from striking new partnerships with the CCP. It must counter Beijing’s unrelenting efforts to attack Canada and — through us — the United States, and it must be honest about its inescapable co-dependency with the United States. We need the United States just as it needs us: North America is a singular attack surface.

Canada must embrace the southern abuser, because we must love him (Stockholm Syndrome) as a coping mechanism.

And we must fight against the efforts of the Chinese to be “friends” and “help us” with “win win” solutions. Because (US) Abuse is Love, (Chinese) Offers of Help are Attacks, and any (Canadian) Independence would be Subjugation! Otherwise:

If Canada does not act, China will aggress us. The allies will bypass us. And the United States will treat us as a dangerous liability to be forcefully managed.

How did Trudeau’s policy of working so hard to be the United States’ northern poodle work out for Canada? Did it stop the abuse or intensify it?

An abuser only respects strength and deepens the abuse for those that show weakness; most especially those that fight off the attempts of others to form more healthy relationships. We can already see that the Prime Minister from Goldman Sachs only beat his nationalist chest during the election campaign, and is now dutifully carrying out the northern poodle hustle.

Canada is not at war with China, neither is it at war with Russia, Iran or North Korea. Its only main security threat, and the source of widespread domestic political meddling, is the United States. As long as the leaders of Canada listen to the likes of Ms. Garbers, as the current Prime Minister from Goldman Sachs certainly seems inclined to, Canada will continue to waste vast resources on useless war spending and pass up opportunity after opportunity for peaceful development.

She has spent her whole life within the Canadian security state, and displays the psychological issues and Stockholm Syndrome that would be expected from a career within such a xenophobic and paranoid institution that is an utter vassal of the US security state. What Canada needs is people who can think outside the box of Western primacy and US vassalage, not those ideologically trapped within it.

Otherwise the Vassal Dogs of War will be truly having their day, sucking up the resources that could provide real security to be spent on their delusional paranoid fantasies.