Author: HP McLovincraft

Seeker of rabbit holes. Pessimist. Libertine. Contrarian. Your huckleberry. Possibly true tales of sanity-blasting horror also known as abject reality. Prepare yourself. Veteran of a thousand psychic wars. I have seen the fnords. Deplatformed on Tumblr and Twitter.

No Fourth Amendment In American Airports?

Do you, as an American citizen, have to hand over your cell phone — along with the access code to open it — upon a (warrantless) demand by a border agent at the airport?

There’s a case grinding through the courts about that right now because one man, a Mr. Sam Tunick, refused.  

Not only did he refuse but he had an app on his phone that triggered its erasure once you keyed in a particular code to open it.  That was the code he gave CBP (Customs and Border Patrol) when they demanded his code to open it.  And then his phone was, indeed, erased right there on the spot, in the hands of the CBP agent.

That’s when CBP got really p***ed off.

According to the reporting on his case, this man was not a criminal.  He was not under suspicion or surveillance for anything, so far as we know. He is not related to Spencer Tunick, an artist who famously creates mass nude photo shoots in public places. He was, in point of fact, a left-wing activist with environmental interests, but, again, without any contact with or prior interest from law enforcement that we know of.

He was just a guy.  Coming home from an international trip (the Dominican Republic.).

You may well be thinking, “A left-wing activist with an erasure code?  Sounds suspicious!”

Let me pause to explain why I don’t think so.

A “right-winger” I know just traveled internationally recently and she traveled with a burner phone to avoid exactly this kind of search in another country.  It was England specifically.  

In England there is no Fourth Amendment and they can search your phone when you land.  They also have no First Amendment and they have terrible censorship laws now.  You can be arrested and jailed for social media posts.  Even some perfectly benign ones, like “Islam is incompatible with Liberty” — that kind of thing.

The Dominican Republic also has no Fourth Amendment and if they simply suspect you have contraband or are engaged in some other illegal activity (so a very wide berth), they have every right to inspect your phone.  Maybe this young man just didn’t want the hassle. Maybe this app was this “left-winger’s” choice instead of a burner, and in the heat of the moment, decided to deploy it once facing our own CPB here in the U.S.

In short, I don’t find it suspicious at all knowing the legal overreach climate we are living in now.  And we certainly can’t be searching American citizens and seizing their devices based on politics alone.  I hope we can all agree on that.

Back to the case:

One attorney, Mike Fox of the Cato Institute characterized Mr. Tunick’s situation this way: “This is new, uncharted territory.”

The Supreme Court has never ruled on your Fourth Amendment rights as they specifically relate to your cell phone at American airports/border crossings.  They have ruled on whether or not your phone is searchable in the interior of the United States and the answer is “no” — not without a warrant.

But somehow an American in an American airport on American soil has to surrender his rights to an American customs agent?  What is this sorcery?

Let’s review the Fourth Amendment, in its entirety:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The Supreme Court has ruled on Fourth Amendment exceptions at border crossings, but not cell phones in particular.  That’s why you have to go through customs and scanners and open your luggage, etc.  We’ve all been doing it forever without a thought.

But your phone ought to be a separate matter entirely, containing as it does, your digital “papers and effects.”  According to the available reporting, there was no “probable cause” to search Mr. Tunick. CPB wasn’t looking for anything specific, which is what a warrant would demand.  They just wanted to go out on a scenic drive, seeing what they could see on his phone.

Hell. No.

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More Democrat Election Tricks: Milwaukee Election Officials Blame “Human Error” After 5 of 9 USB Drives Arrive to Central HQ WITHOUT Election Results

Milwaukee is at it again.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, as Wisconsin primary results were still coming in, Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Paulina Gutierrez admitted that five of the nine USB flash drives delivered from the city’s central count facility to the county contained audit logs instead of the actual election results.

“It’s a human error,” Gutierrez said. When asked by WISN 12 if it was as simple as somebody pressing the wrong button, she replied, “Correct.”

Officials were forced to return to the operations center at Central Count to re-download the correct results from five machines. Those results then had to be transported back to the Milwaukee County Courthouse for re-uploading. Gutierrez said nearly 15,000 ballots were still outstanding at the time of the admission.

Read that again: on five of the nine USB drives used in a critical election-night transfer, officials copied the wrong files.

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Is America Headed for a Special Skills Draft?

A YouTuber with a million followers, Ryan McBeth, devotes his latest video and Substack column today to a denunciation of an article I wrote last month for Responsible Statecraft, “Why is the Selective Service war gaming a ‘special skills’ draft?”

Mr. McBeth also attacks the Quincy Institute (the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that publishes Responsible Statecraft) and an Instagrammer I don’t know but who posted a short video calling attention to my article.

I’d never heard of Mr. McBeth before he contacted me this week, but it’s apparent from his videos and articles that he has no expertise about the Selective Service System (SSS), its history since 1980, or its current plans, and didn’t do his homework before posting his latest video or an equally errror-filled one a few months ago about automatic draft registration and the possibility of a military draft.

To his credit, Mr. McBeth contacted me before he posted his new video, shared a draft of the script, and included some of my comments in his video and article — none of which was he required to do. He even made some changes to his script in response to my comments, although at the same time he introduced some entirely new factual errors in the final published version of the video.

In his new video, Mr. McBeth claims that “there is no provision” for any type of special-skills draft, but that’s just wrong. In the past, the SSS operated both a general “cannon fodder” draft of young men and a “Doctor Draft” with different criteria and age limits. Since the 1980s, the SSS has been required by law to maintain readiness to activate either a general draft or a draft of “persons qualified for practice or employment in a health care occupation” (the Health Care Personnel Delivery System, HCPDS) — a form of special-skills draft.

The HCPDS contingency plans have some differences from the pre-1973 Doctor Draft (as the current contingency plans for a general draft differ from the pre-1973 operation of the general draft), but the HCPDS is quite explicitly an updated plan based on the prior experience of the Doctor Draft. The SSS has said explicitly (and, I think, truthfully) that its plans for a broader special-skills draft grew out of the HCPDS, which in turn grew out of the Doctor Draft. The issue isn’t whether the SSS is planning for and prioritizing a special-skills draft, but whether it would include draftees with skills in other fields in addition to health care.

Mr. McBeth also claims that that people who, though lack of awareness, didn’t register with the SSS, are being denied student loans and government jobs.

In fact, the requirement to register with the SSS to get student loans was rescinded by Congress in 2020. This change was identified explicitly by the SSS — again I think accurately, although the war in Ukraine was another factor — as one of the reasons for the sharp drop in registration since that change in the law and the FAFSA student aid form took effect. This decline in compliance was, in turn, the major reason that staff of the SSS, fearing that the failed registration program, the SSS, and their jobs might be abolished, came up with the proposal to Congress to give the SSS a second chance to try to register young men “automatically”.

As for government jobs, failure to register is only a bar to Federal employment if it is (provably) knowing and willful. By the explicit terms of the law, someone who unwittingly failed to register can’t be denied a Federal job. In practice, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which makes decisions about eligibility for Federal employment, reported in 2024 that in 99% of cases in which employment is initially denied for failure to register with the SSS, but the applicant appeals the denial to OPM, OPM overrules the initial denial and finds the applicant eligible — presumably, in most if not all cases, because of the absence of any evidence of knowledge and willfulness.

Unwitting failure to register with the SSS is not a bar to Federal student aid or Federal employment.

These factual errors are typical of the myths and misinformation spread by commentators who haven’t been paying attention to anything the SSS has done in the last fifty years. There’s an irony in this factual carelessness, in that Mr. McBeth presents himself as an expert on “disinformation”. But what’s more interesting than the fact that ignorant people make mistaken claims are Mr. McBeth’s motives for attacking me.

Mr. McBeth’s fundamental complaint against me and against the Instagrammer who amplified some of my research findings is that Mr. McBeth wants to shape the discussion about the related issues of U.S. policy toward China and the possibility of a draft, in a way that is different from the way he thinks that my reporting is likely to lead it. Again ironic, since his complaint is against exactly the sort of effort to shape debate and frame public discourse that he’s trying to engage in himself.

Mr. McBeth thinks that my work to expose the details of ongoing planning and preparation for a draft and their role in enabling more belligerent policies, even when activation of a draft is unlikely, might be used by Chinese or other foreign government information warriors to promote fear of a draft, which fear might, in Mr. McBeth’s words, “weaken our resolve to defend our allies”.

I hate to break the news to Mr. McBeth, but Americans don’t need me to tell them to oppose or fear activation of a draft. I’ve never tried — or needed — to persuade anyone not to want to be drafted. My goal has been to make potential draftees — including young people, health care workers, and people with other special skills — aware of safe ways that they can act on their desire not to be drafted, whatever the reasons they already have for opposing a draft, and to empower and facilitate (“aid and abet”, the government might say) those actions.

The goal of my work against the draft is to end planning and preparation for a draft, which (among other outcomes) would remove the possibility of fear of a draft being used to persuade people not to support actions that are premised on the assumption that a draft is available as a “fallback”.

Mr. McBeth and those who share his views can’t have it both ways:

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SHOCKER: DSA Co-Chair Says She Began Her Journey to Socialism by Getting All of Her News From Jon Stewart

DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer, who was recently in the news for not being able to articulate the DSA’s stance on open borders, is back in the spotlight tonight for another set of comments she made during the same interview.

When asked to describe what brought her to the DSA, Romer said that she began her journey to the radical left by getting all of her news from Jon Stewart. What huge non-surprise.

Jon Stewart has been working to discredit and vilify conservatives on TV since George W. Bush was still the president.

DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer describes her political journey to the DSA:

She was first a “Jon Stewart liberal.”

“Got most of my news from Jon Stewart. That was my primary news source.”

After Hillary lost, she was “horrified and baffled.”

She then got invited by a folk singer to a DSA meeting.

And now speaks in bumper sticker slogans for the DSA and can’t answer basic questions about the organization’s positions and platform.

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The Bomb in Monaco and a Torture Room Near Kyiv

They took her trainers. That is the detail that survives, once the rest is stripped away – the belongings removed from the corpse, the shoes pulled from her feet, the shallow hole in woods sixty kilometers west of Kyiv. Anastasiia Berezovska had been shot in the back of the head, then shot again as she lay on the ground, four rounds in all. She was thirty-nine. Six days earlier she had walked out of a stairwell in Monaco having left a backpack in the lobby of an apartment building, and the backpack had torn three people apart. The distance between those two moments – the placing of the bomb and the emptying of a pistol into the woman who placed it – is the whole of this story, and almost everything inside it has been arranged so that the distance cannot be measured.

The device was packed with buckshot and bolts, a charge built for a confined space and for flesh. Monaco’s Minister of State, Christophe Mirmand, said it contained bolts and pellets – a thing made, in plain terms, for the maximum killing of its target. It was detonated by remote control at the moment Vadym Iermolaiev and his family returned from dinner at a seaside restaurant on the evening of 29 June. The man survived with burns and shrapnel. His partner’s legs were amputated in hospital. Their thirteen-year-old son was hurt less badly. The figure who left the bag was seen on the building’s cameras and then seen fleeing on foot toward the French commune of Beausoleil, a few metres and one border away. It was the first attack of its kind in the principality’s history, and the chief prosecutor, Stéphane Thibault, moved quickly to rule out terrorism. A targeted killing, then, in the one place in Europe designed to guarantee that the origins of a wealthy man’s fortune are never examined too closely.

The person who placed it had prepared to disappear. Berezovska disguised herself as a man and fled in a car with German registration plates, across the French border, then into Italy. She had been living in Frankfurt, where German police would later search her apartment and prepare to hand what they found to the Monegasque authorities. On 1 July, the day after the bombing, she crossed into Ukraine and caught a bus to her home town of Zhytomyr, west of Kyiv. The state border service would afterwards insist she entered lawfully, through a regular crossing point, with no database alert – including from Interpol – flagging her as wanted. That is technically true and quietly damning: Interpol did not issue its Red Notice until 4 July, three days after she was already home. The one suspect in an atrocity on European soil walked back into Ukraine unimpeded, and by the time the world’s police apparatus formally wanted her, she was already among the people who would kill her. Her body was recovered on 6 July.

The two men arrested for her murder had both been sending her money — cryptocurrency and transfers into her bank accounts, which is how, the Security Service of Ukraine says, they were identified at all. One of them, Vladyslav Reut, thirty-three, appeared in a Kyiv court on 10 July and described how it was done. His accomplice, a former Kyiv-region police officer named Vitalii Zhykovych, took her at gunpoint to a forest near the village of Yuriv. “Zhykovych fired the first shot at her in the back of the head. She fell down. He came up and fired another shot. I was standing a few meters away at that moment.” Reut said he was then made to dig the hole, while Zhykovych stripped the body of its possessions and took the dead woman’s trainers. He told the judge he would insist on a polygraph to prove his innocence. Zhykovych, through his lawyer, denies the allegations.

Reut is not a criminal picked off the street. He studied law at Kyiv’s national university and served in Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate, the GUR, in unit A2772 – a training center for special-operations forces. That was established not by Moscow’s propagandists but by the investigative journalists of Radio Liberty’s Schemy project, and reported by Luke Harding in the Guardian from Kyiv. So the plain shape of it is this: a serving officer of a state intelligence service financed and helped carry out the execution of the only witness to a bombing in a European city. This is not the allegation of Ukraine’s enemies. It is the account produced by Ukraine’s own security service, in its own statement, within days of the killing.

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James O’Keefe Releases ANOTHER Shocking Undercover Video From Michigan Showing Him Asking “Voters” About Duplicate Absentee Envelopes For Same Person

On Election Day, James O’Keefe was on the ground in Michigan, preparing to expose voter fraud, which is commonly found in a state where Jocelyn Benson, the nation’s most dishonest Secretary of State, is administering elections.  On the day before the election, our Detroit 2020 Election Inspection leadership team (Phani Mantravadi, Yehuda Miller, and Patty McMurray) spoke with James O’Keefe to help him identify some of the hot spots in Detroit as well as surrounding areas that are also ripe for fraud.

O’Keefe’s first bombshell video that went viral on Saturday afternoon was based on my exclusive report, published on the Gateway Pundit on May 19, 2026, featuring six non-citizens on Michigan’s voter rolls who are also on the DHS Worst of the Worst Criminals list, including Dearborn resident Afshin Masheli, a convicted rapist who’s voted several times in Michigan’s election.

According to our research, the U.S. has been unable to deport the convicted rapist, Afshin Masheli, back to Iran. In his latest bombshell video, O’Keefe mentions the Gateway Pundit’s reporting on the Worst of the Worst non-citizens voting in Michigan as he features Masheli, who, according to Check My Vote (an online service that’s tied to Michigan’s voter rolls, created by Phani Mantravadi), voted in 3 of Michigan’s federal and state elections. In O’Keefe’s undercover video, Masheli can be seen speaking with an undercover journalist at his front door, as he arrogantly admits that he was getting ready to vote in Michigan’s primary election later that day.

On Sunday afternoon, James O’Keefe dropped a teaser on X that seemed to imply he was about to drop something even bigger than Saturday’s bombshell:

“Time to raise the stakes,” he wrote, adding, “Tomorrow.”

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Pedophile Paradise: How Israel and Its US Allies Protect Sex Offenders

Before Donald Trump and Israel attacked Iran, Jeffrey Epstein was the biggest story in the world. It’s not hard to see why.

Epstein captured the public’s imagination not just because his case exposed the extent of elite depravity and lack of accountability, but also because the world’s most notorious pedophile was almost certainly an Israeli intelligence asset. That fact adds a whole new geopolitical dimension to the already twisted and complicated Epstein saga.

But Epstein is not an aberration. For decades, Israel has served as a sanctuary for sexual predators while the US government looked the other way. Israel’s allies on the American Christian Right have always remained conspicuously silent on the issue.

Fugitives, Fixers, and Years of Delay

The Law That Made Israel a Safe Haven for Criminals

In 1978, Israel banned the extradition of its own citizens. The law, pushed through under Prime Minister Menachem Begin, was intended to protect Jews from hostile courts, but it later created a loophole that allowed Israeli citizens accused of crimes abroad to avoid extradition.

In September 1997, Samuel Sheinbein killed 19-year-old Alfredo Enrique Tello Jr. in Maryland and fled to Israel, where he claimed Israeli citizenship through his Israeli-born father and became protected from extradition to the US. His father, Sol, an attorney with dual citizenship, brought him a passport and a ticket to Tel Aviv, and that case became a major precedent in Israel’s extradition law.

Israel’s Supreme Court blocked Sheinbein’s extradition in a 3–2 decision, despite demands from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and congressional threats to suspend aid. Chief Justice Aharon Barak, who wrote the dissenting opinion, argued that Sheinbein should be extradited and warned that the ruling could turn Israel into a haven for criminals. Sheinbein received 24 years in an Israeli prison, far short of the sentence he could have faced in the US.

Israel amended the law after the scandal, allowing the extradition of Israeli citizens under specified conditions. The Sheinbein case exposed a conflict between Israel’s domestic extradition law and its extradition obligations to the US, and prompted a broader overhaul of the country’s extradition framework. During the debate over the reform, Hanan Porat, head of the Knesset’s Law Committee, warned against allowing Israel to become a “safe house for criminals abroad.”

By 2020, Jewish Community Watch had identified more than 60 accused child-sex offenders who had moved from the US to Israel since 2014, and believed the true number was higher. Activists blamed both Israel for failing to address the problem and the US for not pursuing extradition aggressively, according to CBS News.

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Where Is Mitch McConnell? – McConnell’s Chief Of Staff DUCKS And DODGES Questions About The Senator’s Health At His Very Own DC Home

Senator Mitch McConnell’s, R-KY, Chief of Staff, Terry Carmack, ran away from basic questions about the Senator’s current health decision.

Given the Senator’s extended absence and lack of a clear explanation, I visited McConnell’s home in Washington, DC to investigate the situation and demand more answers on his current health status.

Heavy security detail was present at his DC home, and they remained there throughout the day.

Carmack would then exit the house and put his phone to his ear, as if he were speaking to someone.

I started asking him basic questions about McConnell’s health, his connection to McConnell, and why he came to the Senator’s home. Carmack started walking fast to avoid me.

As Carmack was pursued down the street, he kept trying to change direction to avoid his face appearing in the camera lens. Carmack then ran his body into mine, which slightly pushed me back.

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Woman Who Defrauded USAID-Funded Nonprofit Avoids Prison, Settles Civil Claims For $160,000

A Maryland woman has agreed to pay the U.S. government $160,000 to resolve civil allegations that she submitted false claims for payment, following her earlier criminal conviction for defrauding a nonprofit that received USAID funding.

Carleena Graham, 59, formerly served as vice president of human resources at World Learning, a nonprofit that received millions of dollars in grants and contracts from both the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department. According to the USAID Office of Inspector General, she orchestrated a scheme that drained roughly $425,000 from the organization between about 2016 and mid-2022. Of that total, approximately $272,500 came directly or partially from U.S. government funds.

Graham arranged for goods and services to be delivered to Washington-area nonprofits where she held positions or had relationships, then directed World Learning to pay for them through electronic transfers from its accounts. She falsified vendor invoices to create the appearance that World Learning itself had received the items. She also used the organization’s credit cards to cover expenses for those outside entities.

Federal authorities charged her with one count of wire fraud in May 2023. She pleaded guilty and, in March 2024, received a sentence of four years’ probation, an order to pay $425,000 in restitution, and a three-year debarment from receiving U.S. government funds. Her plea agreement estimated an advisory sentencing range of 27 to 33 months’ imprisonment.

In July 2026 she entered a separate civil settlement with the Department of Justice under the False Claims Act, agreeing to the $160,000 payment. That agreement closes a joint investigation by the USAID and State Department Offices of Inspector General. The government’s announcement notes that the claims resolved by the civil settlement are allegations only and that there has been no determination of liability.

Graham’s is not the only USAID-linked fraud case to reach resolution. As we reported in June of last year, former USAID contracting officer Roderick Watson and three corporate executives pleaded guilty over a decade-long bribery scheme spanning at least 14 prime contracts worth more than $550 million. Prosecutors said Watson accepted bribes valued at more than $1 million, including cash, laptops, tickets to a suite at an NBA game, a country club wedding, and down payments on two residential mortgages. He faced a maximum of 15 years. The two contractors involved, Apprio and Vistant, admitted criminal liability and entered deferred prosecution agreements. In a separate case, a British national who worked on a USAID-funded power distribution program in Pakistan was extradited after more than two years, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to time served for a kickback scheme that cost the program almost $100,000.

The settlement lands amid broader scrutiny of USAID’s oversight of foreign-aid spending. Inspector general memoranda issued in 2025 flagged weaknesses, including limited visibility into sub-recipients, resistance from some international partners in sharing misconduct information, and incomplete reporting of potential fraud by organizations that received agency funds. World Learning was among the recipients of USAID programming during the period of the scheme.

USAID was formally dissolved on July 1, 2025, with its remaining functions absorbed into the State Department.

Also, the DNC is oddly out of money.

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Canadian Military Celebrates Occupation of Haiti

Sunday was National Peacekeepers’ Day and the Canadian Forces had the temerity to celebrate the UN occupation of Haiti. Through UN missions Ottawa has contributed to major US imperial crimes.

On its Facebook page the military noted, “On this day, we honour the courage, dedication, and commitment of all Canadians who have served – and continue to serve – in peacekeeping operations around the globe. Since 1948, more than 125,000 members of the Canadian Armed Forces, over 4,500 members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and hundreds of Canadian civilians have served in international peace support missions to more than 35 countries.”

The photo that accompanied the post was of two white soldiers looking at a young Black boy in Port-au-Prince as part of Operation Hamlet, which was the name for the Canadian Forces’ participation in the UN mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) from 2004 to 2017.

After consolidating a US, France and Canada military coup against Haiti’s elected government the UN mission was responsible for countless abuses. The foreign soldiers had sex with minors, sodomized boys, raped young girls and left many single mothers to struggle with stigma and poverty after departing the country. Beyond sexual abuse, the UN’s disregard for Haitian life caused a major cholera outbreak, which left over 10,000 dead and a million ill.

500 Canadian troops were part of the UN mission that backed up the coup government’s (2004-2006) violent crackdown against pro-democracy protesters. For years Canada led the policing component of a UN force that also killed dozens of civilians directly in pacifying Cité Soleil, a bastion of support for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

It’s not just Haiti. Canada played a significant role in the UN peacekeeping force that contributed to one of the worst post-independence imperial crimes in Africa. In 1960 the UN launched a peacekeeping force that delivered a major blow to Congolese independence aspirations by undermining elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. As detailed in Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64, Canadian soldiers played a significant role in the Organisation des Nations Unies au Congo (ONUC) force that enabled Lumumba’s assassination. Canadian troops dominated intelligence-gathering positions within the UN mission, and they worked to undermine Lumumba. After the PM escaped house arrest and fled Leopoldville for his power base in the Eastern Orientale province, Canadian Colonel Jean Berthiaume assisted Lumumba’s political enemies by helping recapture him. Kept in place by Ottawa, the UN Chief of Staff tracked the deposed prime minister and Berthiaume informed the head of the military, Joseph Mobutu, of Lumumba’s whereabouts. The elected prime minister was killed soon after.

Through UN missions in Haiti (2004), Congo (1960) and Korea (1950) Ottawa contributed directly to major US imperial crimes. Canada’s sizable contribution to UN missions in Egypt and Cyprus were largely designed to reduce tensions within NATO. In Egypt (1956) the US opposed the British/French invasion while in Cyprus (1964) NATO members Turkey and Greece were on opposite sides.

As far as I can tell, major Canadian peacekeeping missions have always received support from Washington. Still, many liberal/Left commentators ignore the power politics driving UN missions.

In recent days Rideau Institute president Peggy Mason and Royal Military College professor Walter Dorn have been quoted in major outlets complaining about the Liberals abandoning UN peacekeeping. In the CBC Dorn explicitly linked participating in peacekeeping to Great power competition with China, noting “we’re ceding more rights and more territory for China to take over leadership.”

Dorn is correct to (indirectly) highlight the geopolitical motivations driving UN missions.

It’s correct to say that Canada’s participation in UN missions has generally been less damaging than its involvement in US/NATO wars in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Libya. But, that’s not an argument for blanketly promoting peacekeeping.

The stark reality is that Ottawa has never deployed large number of troops abroad principally to promote international law or justice.

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