Munich Clown Show: Rubio promises to make EU and NATO great again

Marco Rubio spent half an hour trying to convince the Euro-elites that 500 years of Western domination, so rudely interupted by the post-WW2 anti-colonialism movements, need not be over! Nosirree! Europe and America, united by our commmon Christian heritage, can prevail over the dark forces of communism and Islamofascism. Together, we can ride the glory train of Empire for another 500 years! The Europeans greeted Lil Marco's insights with a standing ovation! This does not bode well for Mark Carney's quest to find "like-minded Liberal democracies" with whom we can form an alliance independent of the US. Looks to me like Stormer, Micron, and Schmertz would like nothing more than to turn back the clock to a time when they found safety huddled under Uncle Sam's nuclear umbrella. Who needs a defence budget when America does 99% of the heavy lifting? Trump's demand that the vassals bump defence spending to 5% of GDP is seen, now, as a small price to pay to keep NATO alive. Whatever "like-minded democracies" Carney thought he saw in Europe are revealing themselves to be nothing more than abject boot-lickers. The leaders of the E3, each of them struggling with single-digit approval ratings, would happily enough trade all their tomorrows for just a little more yesterday, to paraphrase an old Janis Joplin tune. Speaking of Janis, did you know she's in the Epstein files? Yup, Jeffrey was all of nine years old when Janis was born! Also in those files is the bitter old hag who was once expected, at least by the cool kids, to smash the glass ceiling and be the first woman elected president of the world's greatest democracy. Lesser nations have had female PMs and presidents and chancellors for decades, but it remains a bridge too far in America... maybe in the next 500 years! Unlike Janis, Hillary's cadaver was actually on stage in Munich to reveal her plan to force Putin's capitulation by saturating Russian airspace with Tomahawk cruise missiles. That's the kind of fresh new thinking that's guaranteed to get the next 500 years of Western Exceptionalism off to a rip-roaring start!

Queen Ursula promises to turn EU into military super-power!

If you happened to catch her speech at the Munich gabfest you know what I'm talking about. The President of the European Commission isn't content to lead an army of desk jockeys... she wants to command a real fighting force wielding real weapons! And because Ursula's army will be a pan-european force, it will naturally confine procurement of weapons large and larger strictly to EU member countries. While Canada isn't in the EU, we did just join a new procurement plan. The plan is to out-produce Russia in war supplies. To do that we just have to rebuild our manufacturing capacity that we spent the last fifty years off-shoring. This could be a good plan for Canada, because unlike every EU country, we don't rely on American LNG to power our manufacturing sector. Heavy industry is that part of the economy that builds machines of all sorts, including war machines like tanks and war-ships and so forth. The Europeans used to do that stuff back when they had access to low-cost energy, because heavy manufacturing is extremely energy-intensive. Now that they're dependent on American LNG, at 4x the price of pipeline gas, Europe's heavy industries will never be competitive again.