CARNEY ELECTRIFIES: GROWS INTO HIS OWN AS A WORLD LEADER!
Nassau, N.P., The Bahamas
Hon. Mark Carney’s DAVOS 2026 speech was the finest by a western leader since 1945.
Carney admitted: THE ENTIRE WESTERN ENTERPRISE OF A RULE GOVERNED WORLD ORDER HAS BEEN A LIE: invasions, bogus regime changes, sponsored genocides must all be rejected.
We must turn to “principled pragmatism”: a beautiful term for framing a cooperative world order; pioneered by role model nations like l Singapore, Denmark, Norway, New Zealand, Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland and Estonia.
Canada struck a blow for the only sort of world order in which nations like The Bahamas and other middle states can survive. But Singapore’s Prime Minister Hon. Lawrence Wong, former Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, its former foreign Minister Hon. George Yeo and its former Ambassdor to the UN, H.E. Kishore Mahbubani made similar speeches during the last four months.
With artful aplomb, Carney also foregrounded diplomatic honesty as a key principle and practise.
Carney admitted openly, that Canada was complicit “living within the lies” of the old order.
HERE IS HOW HE PUT IT (EXCERPT):
“Every day we are reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry. That the rules-based order is fading. That the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
This aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable – the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself. And faced with this logic, there is a strong tendency for countries to go along to get along. To accommodate. To avoid trouble. To hope that compliance will buy safety.
It won’t.
So, what are our options?
In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel wrote an essay called The Power of the Powerless. In it, he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself?
His answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, this shopkeeper places a sign in his window: “Workers of the world, unite!” He does not believe it. No one believes it. But he places the sign anyway – to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists.
Not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false.
Havel called this “living within a lie.” The system’s power comes not from its truth but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source: when even one person stops performing — when the greengrocer removes his sign — the illusion begins to crack.
It is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.
For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We joined its institutions, praised its principles, and benefited from its predictability. We could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection.
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 that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.
This fiction was useful, and American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods: open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.
So, we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.
This bargain no longer works.”
IN FACT THE BARGAIN NEVER WORKED…EVERYONE - ITS VICTIMS ESPECIALLY - KNEW IT WAS A LIE!
CORE OF THE SPEECH FOR ME:
1. Canada was like gangster Tony Soprano’s wife: it went along with Tony (US) and benefited and when after all that blind loyalty, Tony turn on her (Trump’s abuse of Canada), she spoke as if innocent.
2. As such, I’m touched by Carney’s unprecedented honesty in reference the thinking person’s hero Vaclav Havel - the playwright President - who used the metaphor of the complicit shopkeeper in the old soviet system; whose mundane habits kept the system going.
Every country expecting to survive within a RULES BASED SYSTEM should call on Carney now reaffirming their commitment; as he seems possessed of the inner steel of a great man. But do not assume that his load is light or the wisdom and courage of his posture makes him safe; even at home in Canada.
There are US influenced Canadians who say he should let the U.S. abuse happen and just ride it out. He has separatist and MAGA flares in Quebec and Alberta; with noisy little groups wearing 51st state T-shirts. As such he has to hold Canada together as he attempts to galvanise the world out of its lazy, cowardly complicity.
But Carney is not merely talking…like Dr Nigel Clarke former Jamaican Finance Minister - expert skill and experience changed the global equation: Carney never reacts. MAGA gloated that Canada would come running back. But instead in just 6 months…Carney completed 50 trade deals…because when one knows what one is doing, timescales are paper thin!
Whilst Europe and NATO languish as desperate chatter boxes and linger at great risk, Carney has spoken more firmly and courageously than any Euopean leader in its history: insisting ArticleV will be honoured; breathtaking that such a statement comes from within NATO toward a founding member of NATO….but as Lenin said: only Christian democracies attack each other and plunge the entire world into war.
It’s happen twice already.
There hasn’t been a single great leader on the world’s stage since the death of LeeKuanYew: Carney is emerging, but like all things…in this time, yet only for a time.
ACT NOW!
