War is peace. Donald Trump has killed thousands of Iranians, kidnapped Venezuela’s president and bombed Somalia 200 times but for what does Marc Carney criticize him? An energy deal.
Since Donald Trump began his second term, the US has bombed nine countries/territories. According to New America, the Trump administration has hit Somalia 211 times. Over the past thirteen months 71 US maritime strikes in the hemisphere have killed over 200 and in January US forces killed nearly 100 when they kidnapped Venezuela’s President.
An eight-week US bombing campaign of Yemen last year killed at least 224 civilians as part of an effort to enable Israel’s genocide and last month the Trump administration gave the Jewish supremacist state $2.8 billion worth of mostly 2,000-pound bombs.
Over 40 days at the start of the year the US launched 10,000 strikes on Iran. In one attack, 120 schoolgirls were killed.
Carney has either supported or ignored all of that violence. But the prime minister responded to the US president announcing a plan to purchase Russian diesel as a threat to “peace”.
In a statement released after speaking to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday the PMO posted, “The leaders discussed the new agreement between the United States and Russia to supply millions of tonnes of diesel to the United States. The Prime Minister was clear: this agreement is in direct opposition to the efforts of Ukraine, Canada, and our allies to create peace and stability in Europe.”
For a PM speaking publicly about US foreign policy, these were fighting words. Longtime corporate journalist Paul Wells labelled that paragraph “one of the starkest criticisms of a US president that any Canadian prime minister has made in my life.”
Carney expressing outrage at an energy deal — tied to halting attacks on oil infrastructure — while supporting/ignoring Trump’s endless violence has passed with little comment. Basically, everyone in establishment Canadian politics promotes the notion that giving Ukraine more arms or deploying more troops to Russia’s border promotes “peace”.
In official politics, ploughing $27 billion — more than Ottawa spent on its 13-year occupation of Afghanistan — into war in Ukraine promotes “peace”. Likewise, stationing as many Canadian soldiers per capita – 2,500 in a country of 1.8 million – on Russia’s border in Latvia as are stationed in Canada somehow advances “peace”. Similarly, encouraging NATO expansion eastward and then helping overthrow an elected Ukrainian president who defended the constitution’s neutrality clause was promoting “peace”. And we definitely sought to advance “peace” when we followed that up by deploying 200 Canadian troops to assist forces engaged in a civil war with Russian-backed separatists while preparing the Ukrainian military to join NATO.
In 1984 George Orwell wrote about a totalitarian state where the rulers proclaimed, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
In 2026, in Canada, it’s a prime minister who ignores the US president shredding 120 schoolgirls to pieces while claiming an energy deal threatens “peace”.
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