“There are decades where nothing happens,” Vladimir Lenin once wrote, “and there are weeks where decades happen.” We are now clearly in the midst of one of those weeks, with US President Donald Trump threatening the invasion of Greenland — and the dissolution of NATO — over a thwarted bid for the Nobel Peace Prize. It still sounds more like overwrought science fiction than reality, and the next chapter might be even worse: a direct threat to Canada. 

The pretense for that hardly matters, whether it’s fentanyl or Arctic security or the recent trade deal Canada struck with China. When the frustrations and insecurities of a weapons-grade megalomaniac are driving US foreign policy, there’s almost nothing Canada can do to pre-empt the president’s behaviour. What we can do is prepare to fight back — and take stock of who isn’t willing to participate in that. 

The reaction in certain quarters to the murder of Renee Good by ICE agents, and their broader campaign of chaos and violence in Minneapolis, offers some clues here. Bryan Passifiume, the Toronto Sun’s Ottawa bureau chief, wrote on social media that “in this case, the far left ended up catching a few well-deserved bullets for their miscalculation.” His........

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