Canadian vessels and aircraft are increasingly present near China\u2019s territorial waters and airspace. Canadian vessels have been running belligerent \u201cfreedom of navigation\u201d exercises through international waters Beijing claims in the South China Sea as well as the Taiwan Strait.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s pathological to stoke conflict at a time when cooperation between the two greatest greenhouse gas emitting nations is essential to mitigate the climate crisis. And when we are already involved in<\/a> a proxy war with Russia.<\/p>\n A recent Canadian Press story complained that the RCN doesn\u2019t have enough ships and sailors to simultaneously target Russia and China. \u201cFor the first<\/a> time in eight years,\u201d reported CP, \u201cCanadian warships are not involved in either of two NATO naval task forces charged with patrolling European waters and defending against Russian threats.\u201d<\/p>\n No Canadian frigate is participating in the NATO task forces as a result of the China focused deployments and Ottawa sending an additional warship to eastern Europe immediately after Russia\u2019s February 24 invasion of Ukraine. Still, \u201ctwo smaller Kingston-class coastal defence vessels\u201d, CP revealed halfway through the article, have been deployed on a NATO mission in Eastern Europe for \u201cfinding and clearing enemy mines.\u201d<\/p>\n While Russia and China are in the RCN\u2019s crosshairs today, the Canadian Navy has long enforced empire. Established in 1910, the RCN took over British Royal Navy bases in Esquimalt and Halifax. During the 1910\u201317 Mexican Revolution Canadian vessels were dispatched to protect British interests on the Pacific Coast and to El Salvador in 1932 to support a month-old military coup government that brutally suppressed a peasant and indigenous rebellion in El Salvador. Alongside US and UK vessels, Ottawa sent a ship to China in 1949 as Mao\u2019s Communists were on the verge of victory in the country\u2019s civil war. During the early 1950s Korean War the RCN bombed North Korean and Chinese troops. More recently Canadian naval vessels were deployed to wars in Libya, Yugoslavia and Iraq (1991 and 2003). While not officially part of US President George W. Bush\u2019s \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d that invaded in 2003, Canadian naval vessels led the maritime interdiction efforts off the coast of Iraq and as a result Ottawa actually had legal opinion suggesting it was technically at war with that country.<\/p>\n The Canadian government is currently spending huge sums to expand the RCN\u2019s capacity to scare China, Russia, Iran and whoever is the enemy of the day. They are purchasing 15 surface combatants for a whopping $100 billion<\/a> ($300 billion<\/a> over their life cycle). The surface combatants look set to be equipped<\/a> with Tomahawk cruise missiles capable of striking land targets up to 1,700 kilometres away and with radar systems that will allow<\/a> US officials to launch the weapons. Designed to fight in US and NATO led wars, the new vessels will increase the navy\u2019s capability to project power anywhere on the planet, the very same planet that is in desperate need of cooperation to reduce the threat of global warming and other environmental disasters.<\/p>\n Anti-war activists and environmentalists must come together to oppose this expansion and move to abolish a Royal Canadian Navy that will entangle us in US conflicts and distract the world\u2019s people from our most important battle, mitigating climate change.<\/p>\n The post Canadian Navy sails with US Empire into War, Environmental Disaster<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ottawa is hellbent on supporting the US empire\u2019s drive for global domination even if it increases the odds of war and undermines the cooperation required to overcome the climate crisis. Canada\u2019s defence minister is boasting about the navy\u2019s continued support for Washington\u2019s bid to stoke tensions with China 8,000 kilometers from this country\u2019s shores. 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