A karshen watan Fabrairu Stephen Harper ya kira Rasha a matsayin "m." A ci gaba da yakin cacar baka, makwanni biyu da suka gabata ministan tsaro Peter MacKay ya kara da cewa Ottawa za ta mayar da martani ga jiragen Rasha a yankin Arctic ta hanyar jigilar jiragen yakin Canada kusa da sararin samaniyar Rasha. Sanarwa na baya-bayan nan daga gwamnatin Harper shine kashi na baya-bayan nan a cikin gwagwarmayar da aka shafe shekaru 90 ana gwabzawa da Rasha wanda ya kamata yawancin 'yan Canada su yi adawa da shi. Tun daga karshen yakin cacar baka Ottawa ta matsa kaimi kan tasirin Rasha a Gabashin Turai. Takardun gwamnatin tarayya da Canwest ya gano a cikin Yuli 2007 sun bayyana cewa Ottawa na ƙoƙarin zama "abokiyar bayyane kuma mai tasiri ga Amurka a Rasha, Ukraine da yankunan rashin zaman lafiya a Gabashin Turai."
A ziyarar da ya kai kasar Ukraine a watan Yulin shekarar 2007, ministan harkokin wajen kasar, Peter MacKay, ya ce Canada za ta taimaka wajen samar da “daidaitacce” ga kasar Rasha. "Akwai matsin lamba daga waje [a kan Ukraine], daga Rasha musamman ... Muna son tabbatar da cewa sun sami goyon bayan da ke gare su a cikin kasashen duniya." A matsayin wani bangare na "ma'auni" na Kanada ga Rasha MacKay ya ba da sanarwar taimakon dala miliyan 16 don tallafawa sake fasalin dimokiradiyya a Ukraine.
Taimakon gwamnatin Ukraine ya biyo bayan rawar da Kanada ke takawa a cikin goyon bayan yammacin Turai, juyin juya halin "launi" a gabashin Turai, wanda aka fi mayar da shi don raunana tasirin Rasha a yankin. Wani labari mai zurfi na Globe da Mail mai taken "Agent Orange: Matsayinmu na sirri a Ukraine," ya yi cikakken bayani game da wasu hanyoyin da Kanada ta shiga cikin zabukan Ukraine na 2004-2005.
"Tun daga watan Janairun 2004 - jim kadan bayan nasarar juyin juya halin Rose a Jojiya, [Jakadan Kanada a Ukraine, Andrew Robinson] ya fara shirya tarurrukan asirce na wata-wata na jakadun kasashen yamma, yana jagorantar abin da ya kira 'hadin kai na masu ba da gudummawa' a tsakanin 20. Kasashe masu sha'awar ganin Mr.[Dan takarar shugaban kasa Viktor] Yushchenko ya yi nasara, daga karshe ya zama kakakin kungiyar kuma ya zama fitaccen mai sukar yadda gwamnatin Kuchma ke tafiyar da harkokin yada labarai. ta Cibiyar Razumkov ta Ukraine da sauran kungiyoyin da suka saba wa sakamakon hukuma da ke nuna Mista Yanukovich [nasara]."
Ofishin Jakadancin Kanada ya ba da dalar Amurka 30,000 ga Pora, babbar ƙungiyar jama'a mai fafutuka a juyin juya halin Orange. Gabaɗaya Ottawa ta kashe rabin dala miliyan don inganta "zaɓe na gaskiya" a Ukraine. Jakadan ya yi wa shugaban hukumar zaben Ukraine alkawarin ba da fasfo (dan kasar Kanada) idan ya yi "abin da ya dace." Ofishin jakadancin ya kuma biya 500 masu sa ido zabe daga Canada, mafi girma tawaga a hukumance daga kowace kasa (wasu 500 Ukranian-Kanada ya zo da kansa). Da yawa daga cikin masu sa ido kan zaben ba su nuna son kai ba, a cewar Globe.
Juyin juya halin "launi" na farko na Gabashin Turai ya faru a Serbia bayan shekara guda bayan yakin kwanaki 78 na kungiyar NATO. A lokacin harin bam da NATO ta yi wa Serbia ba bisa ka'ida ba a cikin 1999, jiragen sama na CF-18 na Kanada 18 sun jefa bama-bamai 530 a cikin nau'ikan 682 - kusan kashi 10 na ayyukan iska na NATO. Tariq Ali ya ce: "Buri ɗaya na yaƙi da Yugoslavia, ita ce faɗaɗa ƙungiyar tsaro ta NATO zuwa kan iyakokin tsohuwar Tarayyar Soviet. Kuma abin da suka yi ke nan. Ainihin bukatun al'ummar yankin abu ne na biyu. "
Harin bama-bamai a Serbia, wanda ya zurfafa rabuwar Kosovo da wannan kasa, shi ne karo na karshe ga Yugoslavia mai yawan kabilu. Rarrabuwar tsohuwar Yugoslavia zuwa kabila ta kasance abin sha'awa ga NATO saboda ta rage tasirin Rasha a tekun Bahar Rum.
Ta hanyar diflomasiyya da wanzar da zaman lafiya Kanada ne suka ingiza wargajewar Yugoslavia a cikin shekarun 90s. A lokacin yakin cacar baka, Ottawa ta dauki wani mataki na daban. A lokacin da Rasha ke da ƙarfi sosai, Kanada ta kusanci Yugoslavia a matsayin hanyar kawar da ita daga yarjejeniyar Warsaw ta Tarayyar Soviet.
An kafa shi a cikin 1955 Yarjejeniyar Warsaw ta kasance martani ga NATO, wanda wasu ke ganin ra'ayin Kanada ne. A babban taron Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a watan Satumban 1947 ministan harkokin wajen kasar Louis St. Laurent ya yi gargadin cewa idan ba a warware rikicin veto na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya kasashe za su kafa wata kungiya irin ta NATO ba. Kanada, tare da Biritaniya da Amurka, wani bangare ne na tattaunawar farko ta NATO a cikin Maris 1948 kuma a farkon 2007, sanannen manazarcin soja JL Granatstein ya rubuta cewa NATO ita ce "haɗin gwiwar da Kanada ta sadaukar da wataƙila kashi 90 cikin ɗari na ta. kokarin soja tun 1949."
Idan aka yi la'akari da goyon bayan Ottawa ga NATO, nan da nan bayan yakin duniya na biyu Jami'an Kanada sun yi la'akari da yanayin yakin Cold War duk da rahotanni daga jakadanmu a Moscow cewa manyan Soviet na son zaman lafiya da Washington da London. An fara a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu kwamitin yakin ilimin halin dan Adam na Kanada ya ci gaba da aiki a duk lokacin yakin cacar. Ya haskaka farfagandar Kanada (ta hanyar CBC International Service) zuwa Tarayyar Soviet da sauran ƙasashen Gabashin Bloc. A cewar tsohon jakadan Kanada a Czechoslovakia da Poland da kuma wanda ya kafa CBC-IS, Jack McCordick, manufar CBC-IS ita ce "shiga cikin yakin tunani da gwamnatocin kwaminisanci."
Kanada ba kawai ta shiga cikin yakin tunani da Rasha ba. Sojojin Kanada dubu shida sun mamaye Rasha bayan da Bolshevik suka hau kan karagar mulki a shekara ta 1917. Yaƙin da aka yi da Bolshevik da farko ya zama hujjar sake buɗe ƙungiyar Gabashin Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya (Bolsheviks sun rattaba hannu kan yarjejeniyar zaman lafiya da Jamus). Sojojin Kanada, duk da haka, sun tsaya bayan Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya ya ƙare. Haƙiƙa, sojojin Kanada 2,700 sun isa birnin Vladivostok da ke gabashin ƙasar a ranar 5 ga Janairu, 1919, watanni biyu bayan kammala yaƙin.
Shekaru casa'in da suka gabata yawancin kungiyoyin Kanada masu aiki sun yi adawa da mamayar, suna masu jayayya cewa Ottawa ta yi aiki a madadin manyan mutane. Abin takaici, lamarin bai canza sosai ba. Harper's saber rattling ba ya amfanar talakawan Kanada, talakawan Rasha ko ma ainihin wadanda ke fama da manufofin Rasha a wurare kamar Chechnya.
A maimakon haka, gwabzawar gwamnatin Harper tana ƙarfafa hannun waɗanda ke cikin Rasha da kuma a duk faɗin duniya waɗanda ke haɓaka ra'ayi mai ma'ana ta ƙasa inda manufar ita ce ƙara ƙarfin ƙasa. A cikin wannan yanayin, an ware bukatun jama'a a gefe da sunan babban wasan.
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