After spearheading her own country's sovereignty erosion, Chrystia Freeland is suddenly militant about a supposed threat to its independence

As Vladimir Zelensky sprints from Western capital to Western capital, looking like an over-caffeinated lawnmower salesman, and demanding "security guarantees" and nukes so he can keep slow-walking peace talks, one of his biggest hype women has decided that she wants in on the action. Not to deter Russia - but to protect Canada from its so-called closest ally, the United States.

Hypochondria is when you see someone else's illness and convince yourself you've got it, too. Turns out, there's now a geopolitical version of that. "Give us back nuclear arms. Give us missile systems," Zelensky said last month, according to Politico. "Partners: Help us finance the 1 million army. Move your contingent on the parts of our state where we want the stability of the situation so that the people have tranquility."

Now, in a Canadian Liberal Party leadership debate to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau - a contest in which she's trailing behind the globalist banker extraordinaire Mark Carney - Chrystia Freeland, a former finance minister, foreign minister, and deputy prime minister, declared that she wants to "guarantee our security" (Canada's, that is) by making "sure that France and Britain were there, who possess nuclear weapons." Because, apparently, the US is now "clearly threatening our sovereignty."

And what triggered this sudden existential crisis? Trump referring to Trudeau as "Governor Trudeau," a nickname the prime minister totally loves and definitely doesn't find infuriating at all, which is why Trump keeps repeating it? Oh, and the fact that Trump keeps talking about making Canada the "51st state" of the US, ogling its natural assets like he wants to put it next to Greenland in his geopolitical trophy cabinet.

As former finance and foreign minister, Freeland spent nearly a decade turning Canada's "sovereignty" into a polite fiction, tethering the country's economic and political future so tightly to Washington that the smiling friendly mask slipping off and revealing the organic face of American self-interest now has Canadian elites scrambling for a nuke-wielding bodyguard.

Remember the Freedom Convoy protests against Covid mandates in 2022? Freeland, then finance minister, took one phone call from a top Biden economic adviser and suddenly had an epiphany: "That one conversation was a seminal one for me. And it was a moment when I realized as a country, somehow, we had to find a way to bring this to an end." Translation: Washington made it clear she needed to shut down any Canadian dissent, particularly on the border, that could have an economic impact on the US.

Freeland subsequently pulled the trigger on freezing bank accounts of Canadian protesters and their supporters. Meanwhile, Carney, her current rival for Liberal leadership, wrote a totally measured and chill and not at all hyperventilating guest piece for the Globe and Mail, calling for an "end to sedition" and demanding that officials "follow the money." He also declared that the protests were foreign-funded - except that Canada's intelligence chief later confirmed that was fake news.

This isn't an isolated incident, but an illustrative one. Canada's ruling class has spent decades prioritizing Washington's policy directives over the interests of actual Canadians, while Mexico - America's other neighbor - has managed to maintain a strategic independence that Ottawa wouldn't dare dream of, until Trump came along.

When Washington says "Go train fighters in Ukraine!" Canada asks, "How many Nazi tattoos should we ignore?" - as the Ottawa Citizen reported on Canadian forces cozying up to far-right Ukrainian battalions. Regime change in Libya, Syria, Venezuela? Canada's there, cheerleading like it's a football game with Raytheon and Lockheed Martin as its major sponsors. Meanwhile, when Biden single-handedly killed the Keystone XL pipeline by revoking its permit on his very first day in office - a project critical to Canada's energy security - Freeland and company just sighed and moved on. Because, hey, what are you gonna do?

Publicly, Freeland plays the anti-Russia hardliner. Privately? A CBC News investigation found Canada still imported $250 million worth of Russian fuel - laundered through countries such as India and Trkiye. Way to stick it to Russia, guys. With screw-tightening workmanship like that, it's no wonder Freeland and Team Trudeau figured they could slap together a new home every minute between now and 2031.

Canada could have dropped the whole charade altogether and pursued active economic cooperation with Russia, like the US is now talking about doing under Trump with natural resource joint ventures. Now, its leaders are stuck running behind the gravy train and resorting to threats when it could have already been aboard with a first class seat.

If Freeland had spent less time marching in lockstep with Washington and more time actually diversifying Canada's economic ties, she wouldn't now be having a meltdown over the possibility of a US administration doing what every country does in pursuing its own national interests.

And this whole 'Let's get European nukes to deter the Americans' idea? What exactly is the plan there? To have France and Britain send a strongly worded letter to Canada's NORAD roommate, warning that if he acts up, they'll launch a missile up his backside? And then what - Trump nukes Paris or London over a spat about Toronto?

Even Trudeau, in a meeting with King Charles, tried to drum up support for Canada against Trump. But Charles seems too busy virtue signaling for Ukraine, posing with Zelensky for photo ops, to address Trump's so-called "threat" to annex a country of which Charles is technically still the head of state.

Canada has already hitched itself to the US military-industrial complex, sharing NORAD command, intelligence through Five Eyes, joint procurement deals, supply chains, and military operations. What exactly would Europe be nuking? Their - and Canada's - own Western alliance infrastructure? Or maybe some US bases in Germany?

Trump doesn't need to "invade" Canada. All he has to do is squeeze its economy, leveraging the country's massive over-dependence on the US market - something no amount of nuclear saber-rattling can fix. That's the real national security threat to Canada, and it was manufactured by the very same Canadian elites now panicking over Washington doing what they've always done: Looking out for number one. It's long past time for Canada to start doing the same - and to stop treating those of us who have long been advocating for diversification away from US interests like we're the enemy.

No amount of nukes is going to save Canada from its own mistakes.