Mark Carney World Economic Forum speech

[ZeldaStar]

 

 

Inspiring, look at the contrast with Trump 

[LordFall]

I thought it was indeed a phenomenal speech, made me proud that this is our leader. 

[Rigel]

Thank God Trump probably can’t understand any of it lol. Carney is being quite blunt here.

It grabbed me when he said that we need to stop pretending & name reality while reaching out to middle nations.

[oldhandle]

Of course Trump responded like an infant to it

[Jannes]

Is this stage orange at his best or partially stage yellow? 

There is a lot of systems thinking there but still for the benefit of oneself. 

[enchanted]

3 hours ago, Jannes said:

Is this stage orange at his best or partially stage yellow? 

There is a lot of systems thinking there but still for the benefit of oneself. 

Whatever level you pin him at, Carney is perhaps still quite advanced compared to the rest of the world.

Edited 2 hours ago by enchanted

[zazen]

From: https://x.com/benjaminnorton/status/2014003774751449228?s=46&t=DuLUbFRQFGpB8oo7PwRglQ

“It is perhaps understandable that most observers are focusing on Carney's response to Donald Trump's threats and his announcement that Canada will "fundamentally shift our strategic posture" and "diversify" away from the US. This is significant and historic.

Nevertheless, an even more important part of the speech was when Canada's prime minister admitted that the so-called "rules-based international order" was always deeply hypocritical and biased, serving the interests of the imperialist West.

He said, "We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim".

"This fiction was useful" for Western imperialist countries, Carney added. Which is why, "We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality".

However, "This bargain no longer works", he stressed.

In other words, Carney was admitting that Western "middle powers" (like Canada or European countries) willingly went along with US hegemony and supported the US-led imperialist system -- which is predicated on the systematic subjugation and exploitation of Global South countries in the periphery -- because these Western middle powers also benefited from this pillage of the Global South.

But now that the US empire has turned against these Western imperialist middle powers that it previously called its "allies", and now that they are getting just a glimpse of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of what they have been doing to the Global South for centuries, they are (ostensibly) turning against the exploitative system that they had helped to sustain for so long.

They supported imperialism as long as it benefited them. Now that it doesn't, they pretend to be acting in a principled way, supposedly to uphold international law and defend sovereignty. But Canada's prime minister has publicly acknowledged that they never truly cared about that. It was just the public relations narrative.”