Guest Author: John Konrad V, American on Canada

I will be copying this post in its entirety, comparing the US to Canada, and putting Canada in its subordinate place. Very powerful post.


We had a good thing, Canada. A quiet arrangement. You kept watch up north, didn’t make noise, didn’t screw around. We covered the heavy lifting. You backed us up, built a few ships, some icebreakers, flew the flag at NATO, pretended to be a country that gave a damn. We saluted your officers and let you slide when things got bloody.

We asked for help and you sent 26,000 to places like Korea while we sent 1.1 million. We suffered more deaths than your total deployed forces and that was ok because you were nice and you had to remain focused on keeping the north defended.

Now look at you.

Your navy’s a joke, less combat power than a drug cartel with a Zodiac boat. Your GDP’s circling the drain, and instead of fixing it, you’re too busy playing dress-up at climate conferences and pretending that TikTok diplomacy will stop a hypersonic missile. You have 3 rusty submarines and a few small frigates. You have more generals and Admiral than working tanks. You spend less per GDP on defense than Albania or Slovakia.

You won’t spend. You won’t build. You won’t fight. You won’t even build icebreakers. You are a Pacific Nation but couldn’t defend your selves from the Chinese fishing fleet let alone their Coast Guard or Navy. But you’ll sure as hell talk.

Talk about “shared values” while you freeload off the defense umbrella we pay for. Talk about “peacekeeping” while China cuts your undersea cables and Russia maps your Arctic. Talk about how important your role is in NATO knowing full well your only authority is the billets, joint exercises and training we give you.

You think this continent defends itself? You think because you’re polite and bilingual and serve maple syrup at the G7, you get a pass?

That someone else, USA, will show up when it gets hot in the Arctic or North Pacific?

Not gonna happen because we don’t have a single icebreaker that hasn’t suffered a catastrophic loss and no longer have a fleet capable of evacuating our bases in the Pacific let alone defending your coast.

You had a good thing. You could’ve been useful. You chose to be a burden. And when the day comes, and it will come, don’t expect a call back.

We’re done babysitting the unarmed.

You had two jobs. Two. Stop the spread of Communism by nodding along with our anti-marxist rhetoric and defending your own coast. You have failed miserably at both.

And now you’re no longer even nice. You roll over to china and waive fentanyl through our border while booing the American flag and banning our products.

Then when we call out the truth you start pulling on our sympathy strings with posts like these.

I love and admire all 516 you lost and all 26,000 Canadians who served but I absolutely zero respect for today’s Royal Canadian “navy” or your politicians.

We had a great thing going Canada and paid you trillions in sweetheart deals like NAFTA, open borders and all our best intel vis five eyes.

All you had to do was be nice, not elect commies and patrol your own coast in return. You blew it.

P.S. it wasn’t the “Korean” war, MacArthur destroyed the North Korean army, it was the UN China war. P.S.2. You didn’t send anyone to fight with us in the pacific campaign of WW2 or in the Vietnam war either because your king told you defending Europe is more important than helping us in your Pacific Ocean backyard

Below is the original post on X. Under his post is a link to a July article that Konrad is responding to, and it’s a read in itself.

4 thoughts on “Guest Author: John Konrad V, American on Canada

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  2. Unknown's avatar Anonymous

    I like Canada. I like most (there’s always one or two) Canadians. Between business, vacations, and hockey I’ve spent a lot of time in Canada, mostly BC and Alberta, but some in Ontario and Quebec.

    You know the old joke about how to become a millionaire doing(something)? First, start with two million. Canada started out with the two million, they’re below one, and the fecal matter is approaching the fan. Their slide into Socialism.has been slow, so the FO phase has been slow as well but it’s here. The east has been using AB as OPM, but that’s about to end, which will break up the country. Without all the OPM that Ottawa has been shoveling into Quebec, they’re gone. The Maritimes are cut off and like Manitoba, can’t be supported without ABs filthy oil money. BC will be driven out by the demands from Ottowa, even if AB allows a transport corridor.

    The real question becomes, “What do we do about it?” As much as I’d like to agree with Mr. Konrad, benign neglect will not be benign for the US.

  3. I grew up in Western Canada but came back to the US for college and the Navy. The first time changing Canadian attitudes really hit me was when a family friend who I hadn’t talked to in years suddenly decided to send me a three page letter berating me for my political opinions (I had publicly supported McCain/Palin, which apparently was a bridge too far for some Canadians). Since then it’s gone downhill fast. Trump’s tariffs may have been a tipping point for many, but the cracks in our relationship were already showing long before that.

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