🇨🇦 China sends two Snow Dragons, Ottawa sends a press release

Two Chinese icebreakers are prowling Arctic waters off Alaska, deploying the kind of sonar and telemetry gear that can map seabeds, track submarines and sniff out subsea infrastructure, and Canada is proudly saying it is actively monitoring. As reported, the RCAF has had a CP-140 in Alaska since early July while Beijing keeps calling itself a near-Arctic state, which is adorable in the same way a burglar calling himself a near-homeowner is adorable.

This is the Trudeau-era legacy in one frozen snapshot: a hollowed-out military, performative sovereignty, and a political class that spent years obsessing over DEI seminars while real states probe our flank. David McGuinty assures us the vessels are outside Canada’s exclusive economic zone, as if hostile reconnaissance becomes harmless once it drifts a few nautical miles over the line. Ottawa boasts about Operation Latitude, HMCS Ottawa, Max Bernays and Robert Hampton Gray, but the subtext is plain: Canada cannot secure its own North without leaning on Washington. Globalists love open borders on land and soft borders at sea. Nations that refuse to defend territory eventually lose the right to pretend it is theirs.

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