Preserving our autonomy will come at a cost to Canada that Carney suggested it is prepared to pay

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One of the most sage voices on social media in these nebulous days is that of Polish academic Slawomir Debski.

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To those lamenting that NATO is dead as a result of Donald Trump’s intrigues over Greenland, and the imposition of tariffs on allies that deployed troops to Greenland, he pointed out that the alliance has survived worse. He cited the Suez Crisis in 1956, when the U.S. used political and financial pressure on Britain and France to force a retreat, and the French withdrawal from its integrated military command in 1966.

Debski deplored Trump’s tariff response on his European allies as “a level of strategic absurdity even Putin never quite reached.”

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But he urged calm. “Strategy begins where outrage ends. The future does not end with Donald Trump’s presidency. There is an era after Trump and decisions taken today should preserve room for manoeuvre for both sides in the post-Trump world.”

At the same time, he called for a concerted response. “Trump will not reverse course if he can continue to move forward without paying a........

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