This is personal to me because I’ve spent a substantial part of my life doing the jobs that Europeans would not do. From November 1988 to April 1991, with a multi-month tangent to the Persian Gulf War, I was part of NATO in what was then West Germany. It’s always great to have people tell me how important NATO is when I was part of it, and they weren’t, but let’s put that aside. I was there at the end of the Cold War. We were still doing things like having REFORGER exercises and going out on alerts at 3 a.m., where we would shiver in our assembly areas knowing that if the balloon really went up, our role was to die in place so the locals could continue to consume strudel and bitch about Ronald Reagan.
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You are a complete cipher, elected by nobody, representing no actual country, bereft of any enforcement power whatsoever, sending out imaginary invoices to people. Die mad, Eurotrash https://t.co/MFJ4qvAMI5
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 10, 2025
It was personal for me too. I was a reserve cold warrior and would have loved lighting up Ruskies were they to get out of hand. If the Russian Horde uses one tactical nuke, light up Moscow and make it glow for 10,000 years.
And the delusional madness has infected you as well.
Who wins a nuclear war Einstein?
Cockroaches.
Dream some more you IDIOT, ruskies can obliterate yourope without using tactical nukes.
They seem to be having a spot of bother in Ukraine. They should have overrun all of Ukraine by now.
They have been up against the best weapons western money can buy, have learned to defeat them all, and are rolling up the Ukes like the Globetrotters rolled up the Washington generals. Europe has no army, they are out of weapons, broke, yellow bellied cowards at their core, the Russians would roll on them much more quickly than the Ukranians, who at least had 2,000,000 men to throw into the mix.
Three plus years and the vaunted Russian army has advanced what … 100 km?
Zhukov would not be impressed.
If you were a student of history, you would retract that.
Russians fight wars of attrition, not speed.
Their goal is to outlast the enemy. They are more populous and have more resources to outwait others.
It’s working well in Ukraine.
The goal was never to overtake all of the country. Just to liberate the ethnic Russians.
And no, contrary to the paranoid neocon propaganda, Russia is NOT planning on attacking Europe, pro-actively.
Defensively? Well, if the Euroweenies are that stupid to initiate war on Russia, they will get what they deserve x10. Hopefully Carney is on a Euro visit at the time.
Two birds with one stone!
“Russian’s fight wars of attrition not speed.”
Worked well in Afghanistan.
And it’s a good way to kill lots of your own troops.
Yes, the Russians aren’t doing well. They are winning, but not doing well.
However: the state of the European armies isn’t really any better than the Ukrainians, who are losing, and let us not forget that the Ukrainians at least had some morale on their side to begin with — Europe doesn’t have that.
And again, the one country holding up NATO is in so many words telling you that if you continue down the path you are on, you will be on your own (if not already). Congressman Massie has just introduced a bill to remove us from NATO — he’s probably playing to the crowd, but he is playing to the voting crowd. Something to think about.
The tantrums coming out of you lot have been very helpful in getting more of my countrymen on board with this. Thank you! Please carry on!
PS. Peter, they’ve not been up against our best stuff; at least not our best stuff. But the morale issue you did nail.
I remember waving to soldiers across the border in Czechoslovakia.
Heh, I was on the other side of the border soldiering away, ‘preventing the moral decay of the west’* infiltrating the glorious socialist paradise. @1966-1998.
* Nobody, but nobody actually thought or believed that, we all knew that we were to stop or kill anyone that wanted to leave …. heh one wonders why …. the socialist paradise . As it was nobody killed even one.
Yes I remember that ,in the 70th, watching the news from East Germans Deutscher Fernseh Funk at a friends place close to the boarder. The reporter insisted that the wall was there to prevent the folks from the west to come to East Germany and take advantage and by that destroy their socialist paradise. As a kid I was puzzled still believing if it’s on the TV it’s the truth.
That goes from the supposition that the Russians will strike first (possible, they are famously paranoid — historical and geographic reasons). However, they aren’t signalling that they want to strike.
And then we get to the second part: with whose nukes would you level Moscow? Because at the moment you’ve quite burnt your bridges with the one country that keeps NATO afloat.
We aren’t going to war for Europe’s behalf — in actuality a bunch of European elites, who are increasingly rattling sabers they don’t have. You’re on your own on this one. My government would be very reluctant to do so, and my people aren’t exactly feeling that special relationship anymore (your Governor said so himself: “it’s over”).
Canada is at least lucky that it has a border with my country, so you’ll be safe. But if you send people over there, that’s on you.
The US was 3 years late in the first war and 2 years late in the second war. We have learned to expect as much. We were there day one for both wars. They are cowards until they are drawn in. The fat orange retard, despite personally being a coward is sleeping with the enemy, his butt buddy Putin.
TDS alert! TDS alert!
Garfield the cat is sleeping with Putin? I thought he slept with his bear, Pookie.
“The fat orange retard, despite personally being a coward is sleeping with the enemy, his butt buddy Putin.”
Every time I think that you can’t get any more petulant and childish, you prove me wrong.
I did not realize that we were late for wars that we didn’t start nor were attacked in (until December of ’41).
Thank you though, for proving the article’s point.
PS. you Canadians really were/are idiots — how many of your children died for a Crown that only regards you as…what, really?
And you’re proud of it! God Save the King! Canada Strong and (snicker) Free!
Oh, and the Russians have had a history before of being far better allies to us than Canada, so there’s that.
The US deliberately left the Allied burden on Great Britain (oh, how that name piques Americans) up to the limit of her resources and then swooped in to “save the day” .. much like “showboat” Patton would race to be in the parade after Brits and Canadians had done the fighting. WWII broke Britain’s economy and magnified America’s. War debt was still being paid to ungrateful America (Britain and her Soviet ally kept Germany from breaking out through Africa and the middle East) INTO THE 2000s !!!
The Americans didn’t “swoop in”. They had war declared on them. They weren’t “late” for our war; we’d already lost that war. Yes, they handled the war a good deal better than the British did. And that tells you that the British were therefore more virtuous, and not just dumb? Oh, very well.
You are right with the first half of your comment but embarrassingly (to us Canadians) wrong with second half. President Trump is our guy despite his Nyawk bluster about cherry-picked trade imbalance and .. oh, how could he .. some nonsense about a 51st state. He is complex beyond the understanding of you leftists (you have to be dense to be one .. or mentally unstable) and history will show what a champion of freedom he is, and how close Western Civilization has come to total collapse.
And thank you too, for proving my point. Please do keep going. I love showing my countrymen your responses.
Honestly, by this point I’d welcome the current US administration clamping down on that border thanks to the drugs, organized crime and hostile foreign power control of the Canadian government. Make it crystal clear that unless and until Canada gets its house in order the border gets treated with the same scrutiny as the Mexican one.
Read an opinion piece on the state of Europe – that its a welfare state that pays enormous percentages of its GDP to maintain it.
Italy, France, and Germany are great examples.
Hard to pay for a proper military when the entitlement crowd demands and gets more than they ever contributed.
Canada is a member of the welfare club. To use a detestable term – unsustainable. But it will have to economically collapse a la CCCP before we ditch it. Sooner or later, socialists run out of other peoples’ money.
Many places in the Instapundit piece you could have easily substituted Kanada for Europe.
Amen, hard to tell the difference between eurotrash and entitled, coward Canadian sheep. “At least we’re not Americans” As if, eye roll.
For sure.
I didn’t add Cantada because we were talking about the Euroweenies.
Pierre may have been Canada’s first anti-American,
but the public didn’t buy into it until Jean Chretien’s three consecutive majority governments in the 1990’s with his odious marketing strategy… “What does it mean to be Canadian?”
That simple question was a successful 10 year CBC propaganda campaign to begin intentionally dissolving the existing & confident self-identity (which all healthy Canadians once had for very good and obvious reasons) and replace it with petty anti-Americanism, which all Liberals found titillating, and cement Canadian pinko-ism.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chretien has much to answer for.
The Canadian inferiority complex has been a constant source of embarrassment for years now.
You could always send them a pic of the 20 acres in Normandy and ask them if there’s anything else you can do.
I sincerely LOVE Kurt Schlicter. In your face … literate … writing. These aren’t his words … but dang … it sure reminds me of Canadians … as I’ve come to learn.
That, at root, is the contemporary European mantra — At Least We’re Not American — and, like many mantras, it is impervious to fact or repudiation. What about the massive gap in GDP that has opened up between the U.S. and Europe since 2008? At least we’re not American. What about the anemic performance of European companies relative to those in the United States? At least we’re not American. What about the gulf between GDP per capita in Europe and GDP per capita in the United States, or about the U.S.’s great advantages in biotech and energy and advanced semiconductors, or the fact that, if most European countries were to join the U.S., they’d have a lower standard of living than people do in Mississippi, or that the average European is six times more likely to die from a lack of heating or air conditioning than an American is from a gun, or that most European countries are unable to usefully project military power? At least we’re not American.