{"id":2568269,"date":"2026-02-10T10:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadas-mark-carney-cant-even-challenge-american-hegemony-without-american-help\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:01:03","slug":"canadas-mark-carney-cant-even-challenge-american-hegemony-without-american-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadas-mark-carney-cant-even-challenge-american-hegemony-without-american-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney&#8217;s Plan To Challenge U.S. Is So Pitiful It Needs American Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcanadas-mark-carney-cant-even-challenge-american-hegemony-without-american-help%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2568269&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This piece presents a satirical take on Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s Davos rhetoric about ending reliance on American power, arguing that the move is more performative than real. It notes that Carney proclaimed a rupture in the world order and called for Canada to pivot toward a \u201cmiddle powers\u201d coalition,strengthening itself at home.yet the article highlights a seeming contradiction: Canada is still negotiating large U.S. weapons sales and receiving American technical support, implying continued dependence even as a new rival to U.S.influence is proclaimed. Specific arms deals mentioned include billions of dollars in U.S. weapons sales to canada, such as HIMARS systems, negotiated prior to Carney\u2019s Davos speech. The piece also mocks pundits who hailed Canada as challenging American power and recalls that American military aid and logistics would remain involved. It concludes with a short author bio of Chris Bray, a former U.S. Army sergeant and UCLA PhD, who writes on Substack.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sometimes a punchline arrives a few weeks after the joke.<\/p>\n<p>A little less than three weeks ago, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made the globalist media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/01\/23\/mark-carney-davos-trump-wef-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swoon<\/a> by standing on a stage in Davos and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/01\/davos-2026-special-address-by-mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declaring the sudden new limits of American power<\/a>. For years, Carney said, American hegemony was a stabilizing force in the world, so other countries tolerated America&rsquo;s many failures to live up to its declared ideals &mdash; in Carney&rsquo;s words, &ldquo;the gaps between rhetoric and reality.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>But no more. In the age of a <em>certain bad orange man<\/em>, America has lost the trust of its erstwhile allies. &ldquo;This bargain no longer works,&rdquo; Carney announced. &ldquo;Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.&rdquo; The time to end Canada&rsquo;s reliance on American power has arrived, as an urgent strategic challenge that can&rsquo;t be avoided. The world order has <em>ruptured<\/em>, and America&rsquo;s out.<\/p>\n<p>Pivoting away from America, Carney declared the coming emergence of a new security alliance, a coalition of &ldquo;middle powers,&rdquo; that would challenge an arrogant hegemon. Canada, the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >prime minister warned<\/a>, had decided to &ldquo;fundamentally shift our strategic posture,&rdquo; aggressively changing policy &ldquo;to build our strength at home.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Idiots celebrated. Professional dullard David French <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/eNDdi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> in the pages of The New York Times that Carney had &ldquo;marked out a path of allied integration and cooperation that could create, in essence, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lessons-from-the-last-cold-war\/\" title=\"Lessons from the Last Cold War\">great power rival<\/a> to the United States.&rdquo; American power in the world used to matter, until it was killed in a single year by Donald Trump being boorish, after which Canada came up with a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>So a notice published in the Federal Register on February 9 is at least a <em>little<\/em> funny. A formal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2026\/02\/09\/2026-02524\/arms-sales-notification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arms Sale Notification<\/a> prepared by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announces the proposed transfer of $2.68 billion in American weapons and other military equipment to Canada, that bold new rival to American power. Along with thousands of bombs and JDAM guidance sets, the proposed deal with Canada would provide &ldquo;classified and unclassified software and software support; classified and unclassified publications and technical documentation; United States (U.S.) Government and contractor technical, engineering, and logistics personnel services; and other related elements of logistics and program support.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Canada&rsquo;s brave new challenge to American military power requires American tech support. American military contractors will send bombs and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-china-wants-to-beef-up-relations-with-us\/\" title=\"Taliban: China Wants To \u2018Beef Up\u2019 Relations With Us\">guidance systems<\/a>, with engineering and logistical assistance, to the leading nation in Mark Carney&rsquo;s new anti-American coalition of middle powers. Not that it matters: &ldquo;The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-approves-500m-arms-sale-to-taiwan-as-aggression-from-china-intensifies\/\" title=\"US approves 0M arms sale to Taiwan amidst rising Chinese aggression.\">basic military balance<\/a> in the region,&rdquo; the announcement declares. Someone tell David French. Gently, I mean.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2026\/02\/02\/2026-02059\/arms-sales-notification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">similar announcement<\/a> from a week earlier describes the proposed sale of another $1.75 billion in American weapons to Canada, starting with &ldquo;Twenty-six (26) M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS).&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/private-equity-to-capitalisms-rescue\/\" title=\"Private Equity: Rescuing Capitalism\">proposed deals<\/a> were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsca.mil\/Press-Media\/Major-Arms-Sales\/Article-Display\/Article\/4320012\/canada-m142-high-mobility-artillery-rocket-systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">being<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsca.mil\/Press-Media\/Major-Arms-Sales\/Article-Display\/Article\/4348692\/canada-air-strike-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">negotiated<\/a> well before Carney arrived in Davos, which means that the Canadian prime minister gave a tub-thumping speech about building strength to challenge arrogant American power while knowing that he needed to use American weapons and ongoing technical support to do it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chris Bray is a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army, and has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carney shifts Canada from US power; arms deals. <\/p>\n<p>If you want a longer paraphrase, I can rewrite the full passage or provide a brief summary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2568270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-09-at-7.50.15-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[73473,11781,27281,4025,70028],"class_list":["post-2568269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-american-help","tag-carney","tag-critique","tag-plan","tag-us-politics-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-09-at-7.50.15-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568273,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568269\/revisions\/2568273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}