Donald Trump threatened Canada’s Mark Carney during his rambling Davos speech on Wednesday (21 January), where he claimed that the nation “only lives because of the United States”. During his address at the World Economic Forum, the US president said that Ottawa should be “grateful” to Washington for all the “freebies” it receives. “Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements,” he said. It comes after Mr Carney warned that the old world order was in the “midst of a rupture” and was “not coming back,” during his own speech in Switzerland on Tuesday (20 January).
No, I’ve been screaming it from the rooftops for ages.
But the number of times I hear people say “once Trump dies…” or “at the next election…” and we need people to understand that Trump is only the noisiest head of the hydra. Removing Trump won’t end the problem.
Precisely, the US behaves like a depraved empire in decline because it is one.
No it won’t immediately solve everything, but it is also a necessary first step. There are lot of people saying that in a “might as well do nothing” kind of way.