Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Tuesday speech at Davos marks a watershed moment in global diplomacy. It will enter history as the day a G7 leader finally belled the cat on the systemic hypocrisy of the Western-led order.
Long after the applause (and discomfort in Washington dies), the speech will be viewed as the public venting of what world leaders have whispered in private since the rise of the “dinosaur diplomacy” of the US.
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The Context: A Brute Betrayal
Carney’s expose of Washington’s hypocrisy comes in the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s increasingly bizarre bullying of foes, rivals and allies.
After slapping tariffs across the world, Trump is now threatening to take over Greenland and punish anyone who comes in the way, including Nato allies like France.
Canada has b
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