Canada Provides an Object Lesson in What NATO Without US Looks Like

How’s that “NATO preparing for US exit” strategy going?

Fine, as long as you believe that military power is no longer useful in the 21st century. And if you are a Eurowienie or aspire to be, you likely believe that all you need is soft (“limp” may be a better term) power to get by. Deploy your soldiers in peacekeeping operations in places like Lebanon, where all you do is watch as Hezbollah lobs rockets at Israel, and whine when Israel comes in to do your job for you. 

Of course the Liberals have cut back funding for Canadian troops! They are too busy spending Canadian taxpayer money on everyone except Canadians! pic.twitter.com/8ouaDhYECT

— Leroy J (@Aqualung0001) April 15, 2026

Canada, like our other NATO “allies,” is rushing to prepare for a US withdrawal from NATO, and why shouldn’t they? They have been stabbing us in the back, and they should expect Trump to treat them with the contempt that they have earned. 

🚨 SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement.

That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States. pic.twitter.com/C3IsTXQYnW

— Department of State (@StateDept) March 30, 2026

Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, has been shouting from the rooftops that the NATO countries are making a huge mistake, but the arrogant twits running the continent into the ground aren’t listening. 

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte just dropped MAJOR TRUTH NUKES on Europe, siding with Trump and saying they NEED America to survive

“If anyone thinks here that the European Union or Europe can defend itself without the US, KEEP ON DREAMING! YOU CAN’T! We… pic.twitter.com/dK9YMh0oIB

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 26, 2026

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte just dropped MAJOR TRUTH NUKES on Europe, siding with Trump and saying they NEED America to survive

“If anyone thinks here that the European Union or Europe can defend itself without the US, KEEP ON DREAMING! YOU CAN’T! We can’t!”

“Europe — if you REALLY want to go it alone, and those of you who are planning for that, FORGET that you can ever get there with 5% [GDP for defense spending]. It will be 10%! You have to build up your own nuclear capability!”

“That costs billions and billions of euros. You will lose them. In that scenario, you would lose the ultimate guarantor of our freedom, which is the U.S. nuclear umbrella. So, hey, good luck!” 😭

There is talk of a European army, and Pedro Sánchez is leading the charge, which is about as funny as you can get. Spain barely spends anything on the military, and currently counts spending to reduce greenhouse gases as “security” spending. Perhaps he means that the Europeans can collaborate on a Europe-wide solar farm or something. 

🚨 WATCH: In a jaw-dropping statement, Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez calls for the creation of a “true European army” immediately rather than in a decade, with Spain committing all necessary resources. He calls for a unified European army rather than individual national armies. pic.twitter.com/4PGiTn5a1T

— Mr Q-17. (@real_Qpatriot) April 9, 2026

The UK can’t deploy a ship—so much for the vaunted British Navy, which once ruled the waves—and Germany sometimes trains with broomsticks, as the US did before World War I. France has a decent military, but all it does is beat up on Africans and surrender to everybody else. 

Just in case you missed it – this is the Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff failing to confirm that the British Army could deploy 1000 troops to the continent of Europe. pic.twitter.com/GnyvLfiJjY

— Mike Martin MP 🔸 (@ThreshedThought) April 10, 2026

Poland? There is a military, and we can make bilateral treaties with them and Hungary. Italy may still be persuadable, and we could almost certainly bribe Greece for basing rights. 

Mark Carney has been making noises—commitments, really—to vastly increase his military spending, but until he kills off enough old people through MAiD, he has other priorities to attend to. Which is why his government is slashing soldiers’ stipends overseas. Without notice, I might add. 

Real morale booster. He raised salaries not so long ago, but now he’s leaving his soldiers hanging. Smart move. 

Transnationalists love to talk big, puff out their chests, make grand strategic pronouncements, and then take a long vacation because all that is hard work. Countries that couldn’t hit their 2% NATO targets will soon have to struggle to meet their stated 5% goals. It ain’t gonna happen. 

Britain is even going to lose its nuclear deterrent if we leave. We lease our missiles to them. The warheads are theirs, the delivery systems ours. 

Britain does have a modestly useful aircraft carrier fleet of two, but no deployable destroyers at the moment to defend them. France has an actual CATOBAR (Catapult Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery) that can launch jets fully loaded, unlike the UK, but one carrier doesn’t provide a lot of coverage, and can only be deployed sporadically. 

All of these militaries depend on the US for intelligence, targeting, and logistics. 

Without the US, Europe isn’t exactly defenseless, but it is only a regional power, and one on very shaky political grounds. The United States has been the glue that held the alliance together, and any temporary strength will wither as financial pressures and political differences become unmanageable. 

😱 When people find out the truth, the reaction speaks for itself.

27% shocked. 22% concerned. 15% disappointed or embarrassed. 14% motivated for change.

That emotional jolt is exactly why this data matters — it opens the door to reform. pic.twitter.com/mMJC8opYpc

— Institute of Economic Affairs (@iealondon) April 15, 2026

The EU is much more fragile than they want to admit, which is why it is drifting into totalitarianism. Germany and Greece do not belong in the same economic union. France is on the brink of financial collapse, and the entire EU, the UK, and Canada are falling behind economically. 

Germany, formerly the economic engine of the EU, is stumbling and deindustrializing. The US is growing in economic strength, while our “allies” are losing influence. 

There is no doubt that the US benefits from having these countries as markets, but the EU is trying to hobble the US through regulations, so our interests are not entirely aligned. Trump is trying to fix that, and Europe is balking, but likely to lose in the long run. 

If forced, European companies will move to the US rather than lose our market. 

Canada’s cut to funding its soldiers overseas is just a canary in the coal mine. No matter how much they want to become a world power on their own, our NATO allies simply can’t. They don’t have the political will, or the economic capacity, without cutting their welfare states and…those long vacations. 

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