BREAKING: Canada/NATO, Just Bet 5% of It's GDP on Democracy—Because Trump and Putin Left It No Choice
NATO nations are now paying to defend against threats from both Moscow and Mar-a-Lago.
NATO Just Bet 5% of Its GDP on Democracy—Because Trump and Putin Left It No Choice
The last time Western democracies spent this much on defence, they were fighting World Wars. Now they’re doing it again—but this time, the threat doesn’t just wear a foreign flag.
NATO members, including Canada, have just agreed to increase defence spending to 5% of GDP by 2035. That’s more than double the previous target—and a move so historically significant that it marks the biggest investment in Western self-defence since the Cold War. While this decision was framed as a response to global instability, the subtext was crystal clear: NATO is rearming because Trump and Putin made it necessary.
Suck on that.
This isn’t a drill. This is a democratic country choosing survival over denial.
From Provocation to Policy: Trump’s Role in NATO’s Biggest Transformation
It’s hard to believe, but NATO leaders are now thanking Trump and Putin for doing what polite diplomacy couldn’t—forcing the alliance to wake the hell up.
Trump spent years publicly bullying NATO, threatening to abandon allies, and suggesting the U.S. might bail on its Article 5 obligations unless countries paid up. Now, even as he wavers in his second term about whether he'd actually defend NATO allies under attack, the rest of the alliance is preparing as if he won’t.
Meanwhile, Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine shattered the illusion that war in Europe was a relic of the past. Xi Jinping’s growing alliance with Russia and military expansionism added fuel to the fire. NATO now sees the writing on the wall: we are back in a global contest between autocracy and democracy, and it’s time to act like it.
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Carney’s Canada: From Defence Laggard to Strategic Leader
Under Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canada is finally meeting its long-neglected 2% NATO benchmark this year—and going further. By 2035, Canada will commit 5% of its GDP (over $150 billion a year) toward a defence overhaul that includes core military spending, modernized bases, Arctic security, energy corridors, and joint procurement with Europe.
In Carney’s words:
“If we want a more secure world, we need a stronger Canada.”
This isn’t about war for the sake of war. It’s about independence, sovereignty, and preparation. In an era where U.S. politics are unstable and Putin is openly hostile, Canada is betting on itself—and betting big.
ReArm Europe, ReBuild Canada
This new defence investment isn’t just about missiles and tanks. It’s about jobs, innovation, and nation-building at home. Canada is linking military infrastructure to economic growth—investing in energy exports, critical mineral supply chains, and Arctic shipping corridors. Every dollar spent on securing NATO’s front lines is also a dollar spent on making Canada more self-sufficient.
Even better? Canada signed a new deal to partner directly with the EU on defence procurement, giving Canadian companies access to Europe’s €150 billion ReArm Europe plan. This is the economic strategy behind the military pivot: use defence dollars to create high-paying jobs, advanced R&D, and transatlantic market access. Canada will gain immediate access to a $150 billion European Union package to start building with our new partners, leaving “unreliable” partners behind, in the words of Mark Carney.
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From Panic to Purpose: Why the 5% Pledge Is Bigger Than Trump or Putin
Here’s the twist: Trump and Putin never wanted this. They tried to destabilize NATO. What they got instead was the most unified alliance in generations—and a once-in-a-century commitment to spend trillions protecting democratic life.
That’s not a coincidence. That’s consequence.
Democracies aren’t just defending themselves from bombs and cyberattacks.
They’re defending against disinformation, intimidation, and authoritarian contagion.
The 5% pledge is more than a military shift. It’s a statement:
You can’t bully the free world forever without consequences.
A Final Thought
For Canadians, this is about more than military budgets—it’s about identity.
Are we a country that depends on others to defend us? Or are we a country that defends democracy with everything we’ve got?
Trump may have thrown NATO into chaos.
Putin may have reignited a European war.
But together, they did something no one expected.
They made NATO stronger.
They made Canada stand up.
They gave democracy a reason to fight back.
Great news for Canada and NATO. Glad they’ve wised up to FF47’s dazzling charisma and are going their own way! Not only have they been paying attention to the rest of the world’s problems but are completely discounting the disgusting traitor in the WH. Can’t wait for his final comeuppance!
Jamelle Bouie
ICE Will See You Now For President Trump, the United States is little more than his personal playground, Mar-a-Lago gone national.
In his mind, the nation has become his private property and he is entitled to do with it what he pleases. Accordingly, Trump seems to lack any sense of obligation or responsibility to the public. His chaotic and haphazard policymaking — if you can even call it that — is as disrespectful to the American people as any imaginable insult.
The president’s sense of his total impunity extends beyond him to his allies and agents. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the roving bands of immigration agents tasked with seizing anyone deemed “illegal.” In cities across the country, masked men and women are snatching people off the streets, forcing them into unmarked cars to be detained, without offering them the chance to contact family members or a lawyer. Just last week, bystanders captured footage of Narciso Barranco, a landscaper, being pinned down and battered by a group of masked agents. His son reported that Barranco was working when several masked men approached him. When he quite understandably ran away, his son said, he was pepper sprayed and beaten.
That ICE has claimed this right to anonymity — which is to say, the right to evade responsibility for its actions in the field — is a testament to the ways that Trump has, in his pursuit of impunity, warped and undermined the idea of a public trust.
What Trump has done, building on decades of near impunity for wrongdoing among American officeholders, is completely invert this dynamic in the most egregious way imaginable. Accountability separates those who govern from those who rule, and Trump, of course, intends to rule. It is fitting that on the other side of the president’s authoritarian contempt for responsibility, accountability and the public trust is his demand for total compliance from ordinary people, under threat of state scrutiny and harassment.
The SAD FACT is that it is difficult to extricate a nation from authoritarian habits of mind and reorient a people toward liberty and equality. It takes time and effort to dismantle a democracy, but if you can bend citizens into subjects, then you’ve already won the most important battle, if not the war.