...different sides of the Atlantic.
The Scandinavians/Nordics of Kalmar might tend to push a more anti-American diplomatic line
And while that will warm many a Canadian-Kalmarian heart, our heads will tell us to measure our talk and maintain a very cordial relationship with...
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The problem with this is that US militarism is fundamentally about maintaining an extractivist economic system that will literally kill everyone.
It *has* to die. Urgently. And it has to be replaced with something unlike Russian, EU or Chinese strategy, which are the same.
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What I will say is that Canada has experience managing this relationship. For example, our PM Chretien in 2003 did not take us into Iraq. Three/fifths of the Anglosphere went. We and New Zealand did not. There was immense pressure on us to go.
We went to Afghanistan, but...
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...did not get involved in Cheney and PNAC's stupid and useless war.
So, while we're not perfect, and your larger point may be right that Kalmar must not be in NATO, the Kalmarian border will be at the Juan de Fuca Strait, 49th parallel, Great Lakes, and the townships of Quebec
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Which means Kalmar needs some kind of cordial bilateral relationship with the States.
Or a really fucking good military.
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We have excellent troops (far better than US) and some of the better tech in the world. Production, manpower and border defense would be huge issues though.
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The real goal would be alliance with a remilitarized Europe. That isn't just a credible threat to US hegemony - it is the end of it.
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No, the *real goal* of Kalmar is of course to usurp the United States as the beacon of life, freedom, human security and conviviality, if the world falls into an attractor pattern of unraveling.
Yes, Kalmar would pursue an alliance with a remilitarized Europe...
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...assuming Europe doesn't go fash.
If it does, fuck it, Kalmar rides alone
And yes, US hegemony will erode and recede. But that's not a foreign policy goal of Kalmar. Kalmar is not a nineteenth century billiard ball state trying to expand its power for arbitrary reasons...
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There is nothing arbitrary about "break the petrodollar or billions (at best) will die"!
But breaking the petrodollar is just one of many conditionals for even having a political problem worth talking about.