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Mark Carney's full speech on middle powers navigating a rapidly changing world (mander.xyz)
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-speech-davos-rules-based-order-9.7053350

Some quotes:

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.

Let me be direct: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.

But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructure as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.

You cannot "live within the lie" of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.

A country that cannot feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.

But let's be clear-eyed about where this leads. A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile and less sustainable.

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[-] eightpix@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Just posted this on Bluesky because I just watched it too.

The standing ovation, rare for Davos (and for whatever it's worth), recognizes two things:

  1. Canada's proximity to the hegemon mentioned.

  2. Carney's stature in the world of finance.

That's it. The content, the message tilted toward an activist approach, in my opinion. It is consistent with the calculations and moves made so far. But, it is not revolutionary or beyond the scope of the established political moment.

There is merit in developing the "networks" he mentioned. There is truth in the act of "taking the signs down". None of it is new. -2 burned the US sign on the White House lawn exactly nine years ago.

Courting China is basic math at this point. Canada's resources — fossil fuels, rare earth metals, water, the Arctic Ocean — go a long way in that conversation. Too bad it'll cost Canada's reputation for environmentalism, attempts at reconciliation, and other human rights championeering. It is a Brave New World, though much like the old world, now with AI.

As long as we are playing a zero-sum game — enforced by military-industrial actors, a capitalist-loving system, and fractious bets on future value — winners, offensively, seek power by force; and losers organize defense against attacks. The rhetoric is the opposite: winners play victim; losers stage victories. What a circus!

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 10 points 3 months ago

Ironically, I think weakening some of those reputational things you mention will also weaken Canada's right wing by taking the wind out of many of their grievances. Our conservative parties are already Frankenstein coalitions of moderate right-wingers and the more extreme far-right, hopefully this will crack the sutures.

[-] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I feel that Canada admitting that it's been going along with a colonial power disguised as world order is embarrassing for the west. Even more embarrassing that he got a standing ovation. "yeah we've been using this façade of world order to benefit from the exploitation of the global south, but now it's not working out so good for us." Completely Shameless.

The lopsided liberal order created and will continue to create madmen like Trump, and they will have to see their systems continue to erode because of it. You know, psychopathic systems need psychos to do their bidding, and then they will have to deal with their wreckage.

[-] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The fact that the nature of Western exploitation was somewhat alluded to is at least indicative of new realities we can all be happy about. But yeah, there was no mea culpa, no repentance, just a statement of facts plus a bit of self-victimization. I don't understand the downvotes but such is Lemmit. 🤷

[-] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I can understand the downvotes. It's going to be a hard pill to swallow that the "rules based liberalism" after the cold war was just "soft", imperialism all along. (People in Iraq might not see it as soft.) It's going to be an even harder pill to swallow to accept that now Canada and Europe are going to be in the butt end of that imperialism. It's going to hurt a lot of first world egos that it came back and bit them on the ass; But hey one stage of grief at a time; The poorest living in Canada and Europe have been there for some years now.

[-] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Oooh, I appreciate your posts! And yes, you're right, it is understandable. I don't like it, but deprogramming isn't easy nor painless.

[-] suddenlyme@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 months ago

Elbows Up! What a fucking legend. I'm moving to Canada

[-] Raul@europe.pub 7 points 3 months ago

A document for a moment in History

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Mr. Carney, welcome to the Global South

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

Which is now "the Global Community."

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