On Venezuela, Greenland, and Canada
With so much going on all the time, it can be hard to keep track of important news. Many thought that 2025 started with a bang - rightfully so - with the American government bullying and betraying their own people and allies all over the world.
This new year got us talking about international politics even sooner, with the kidnapping of the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by hand of the American army. You can read a good recap about that here: Updates: Trump boasts of abduction of Venezuela’s Maduro amid global outcry | US-Venezuela Tensions News | Al Jazeera.
What that means for our own future, and for that of other countries in the scope of the American imperialist military machine, depends on how the world reacts to that. Protests have erupted in multiple places, including Greenland (Protests in Greenland and Denmark against Trump plans | BBC), but what is really needed is a strong response from governments to show to the United States that they can't be allowed to attack and invade other countries as they see fit, or at least that they can't keep doing that anymore, since that is how the North-American country has always acted internationally.
As Canadians, we should worry about what could come our way in the near future. The President of the United States is convinced that he can simply take ownership of other countries - like he did with Venezuela, literally stealing its profits from the sale of oil (Trump is sending funds from Venezuela oil to a bank in Qatar: report | The Independent) - and he has had his eyes on Canada for a while, as we know very well. The response of the Canadian government to the abduction of a Head of State has been terrifyingly bland, only mentioning the faults of Maduro, not even remotely taking into account that the USA has attacked a foreign country, unprovoked, and in a completely illegal way.
We might not be next, but we are surely pretty high on the list of American interests. When will our government recognize that and act accordingly?
Update: January 23, 2026
Some might say that with his speech on January 20th, 2026 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Carney stood up to Trump. This is why I think he really didn't: Carney's Davos speech: problems and opportunities for workers