🇨🇦 Davos sermons, military retreat

Canada is shutting down four overseas missions and shrinking a fifth after years of pretending to be a global moral superpower. The grand total being sacrificed here was just 60 personnel, down from nearly 4,000 in 1993, as reported. So after decades of liberal chest-thumping about Canadian leadership, the cupboard is basically bare. Mark Carney lectures the world at Davos about middle powers and the rules-based order, then his government quietly axes Cyprus, Kosovo, South Sudan, Congo and cuts Sinai on a Friday news dump.

This is what post-national management looks like: all brand, no backbone. Ottawa has money for ideological vanity projects, DEI bureaucracy and mass immigration chaos at home, but not for sustaining the tiny remnants of a military footprint abroad. The state that diluted sovereignty, hollowed out readiness and outsourced seriousness to NATO now calls retreat rebalancing. Canada is not being made stronger or more sovereign here. It is being reduced to a slogan factory for globalists who love the performance of leadership and hate the cost of nationhood.

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