Prescient1

WOW!!! Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada's shift towards multialignment is quite clear - and this level of honesty from Carney on Western "fiction" about the old order will be warmly welcomed in much of the Global South: "We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially false... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim. This fiction was useful [because of the goods provided by American hegemony]... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

A central, decades-old prong of the propaganda machine of DC's bipartisan foreign policy blob -- as well as their stenographers in establishment media rags like The Atlantic and The Economist -- is that the US nobly acts to uphold the "rules-based international order," which they claim Trump is now tragically destroying. That's why it's so staggering that Canada's PM Mark Carney -- a supreme life-long loyalist of the western establishment -- stood up at Davos and admitted what many know but that had been taboo in elite circles to admit: namely, that this entire self-justifying edifice is a gigantic fraud, one that Canada and Europe and the US all cynically pretended to believe in solely because it was a manipulative tool that advanced their interests. As Carney himself said, citing Václav Havel, once one person publicly refuses to endorse a known fraud, it will crumble. It's well past-time for that bullshit conceit that lies at the heart of US foreign policy and media elite to be be crushed.