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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Mark Carney replacing the American president as the new leader of the free world
in this new world order?
How long is the free world going to be willing to let the current president hold that title?
From Carney's speech at Davos:
The rules-based order is fading, and the strong [believe] they can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must. There is a strong tendency for countries to go along, get along, to accommodate, to avoid trouble, to hope that compliance will buy safety. Well, it wont.
Intermediate powers like Canada are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that encompasses our values, such as respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the various states.
Easterncedar
(5,643 posts)Despite Carney's standing ovation in Davos and the goon's shameful, senile and shambolic speech, there was a lot of pandering to the goon and his agenda from the world's leaders.
Botany
(76,551 posts)Carney has B.S, from Harvard in Economics and a Masters and PhD in Economics from Oxford and
was head of the Bank of England.
Claudia Sheinbaum Has degrees in energy and substainable engineering
B.S., Masters, and PhD
dem4decades
(13,786 posts)That's got to count for something.
Botany
(76,551 posts)Does that count for something? And he says he was the best baseball player in the State of New York
because his mother was all there for him and told him he could be a Major leaguer. BTW @ that
time the New York Yankees had a guy called Mickey Mantle and 4 or 5 other hall of farmers.
bdamomma
(69,201 posts)could be the only democracy, unless we do whatever we can peacefully to stop this thuggish regime.
Fiendish Thingy
(22,277 posts)But his plain spokeness about the end of the old rules based order definitely makes the case that Trump, and by extension, all future presidents, is no longer the leader of the free world.
My hope is Carneys reality check will inspire an Im Spartacus moment among the leaders of the so-called middle powers, to form a stronger coalition of Davids to take on the Goliaths of the world.
Tetrachloride
(9,430 posts)or Cabinet member ....
If there is a leader, let them show up.
themaguffin
(4,956 posts)donnie, but Carney has zero fucks to give, as should all leaders (including our own leaders especially looking at you fucking GOP assholes).