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Dave Keating
@davekeating.substack.com

🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them: "We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." "What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)

Dave Keating
@davekeating.substack.com

🇨🇦PM Carney: "...Stop invoking rules-based international order as though it still functions as advertised. Call it what it is: a system of intensifying great power rivalry where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion." (🧵2/6)

Dave Keating
@davekeating.substack.com

🇨🇦PM Carney: "It means acting consistently, applying the same standards to allies and rivals. When middle powers criticize economic intimidation from one direction but stay silent when it comes from another, we are keeping the sign in the window." (🧵3/6)

Dave Keating
@davekeating.substack.com

"It means building what we claim to believe in, rather than waiting for the old order to be restored. It means creating institutions and agreements that function as described, and it means reducing the leverage that enables coercion." (🧵4/6)

Dave Keating
@davekeating.substack.com

🇨🇦PM Carney: "Diversification internationally is not just economic prudence; it’s a material foundation for honest foreign policy, because countries earn the right to principled stands by reducing their vulnerability to retaliation." (🧵5/6)

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sntaylor
@sntaylor.bsky.social

There's that word- "retaliation"!! Only a rogue leader would use power to intimidate or coerce other countries! It is UNACCEPTABLE. The Euro leaders must join hands with Canada 🇨🇦.

sociaguy4110.bsky.social
@sociaguy4110.bsky.social

The fear of retaliation is exactly what the Trump camp feeds on. The truth? America was never the world’s protector—it was the enforcer for its own corporations. If standing up means exposing that myth, so be it. Let it fall.

Dave Keating
@davekeating.substack.com

Here in Europe we can only dream of having a leader who is so honest with citizens. Can you imagine a Europe where we had someone like Carney as 🇪🇺President? Instead we're stuck with von der Leyen, Rutte, Starmer, Merz, Meloni. Maybe they will actually listen to what Carney is telling them (🧵6/6)

Richard Blogger
@richardblogger.bsky.social

Churchills last stint as PM was a disaster, he was well past his prime and out of depth. Bitter, like Trumo, that he lost an election he thought was his, so when he did win, he just tried to reverse the work of the people who had beaten him in 1945

sntaylor
@sntaylor.bsky.social

Euro leaders have not quite realized they are dealing with a madman who has no interest in cooperative politics- and would turn on any one of them. Canada knows 🇨🇦

Zaddock Fuller
@zaddockfuller.bsky.social

We in America call dibs on Carney. No reasonable person could honestly argue that we don't need him more than any other nation on the planet. Please Canada, lend him to us for the next three years[minimum] or until we get our house in order[maximum].

Stevie Why
@stevie-yyc.bsky.social

TBH, I don’t think people outside of North America know what it is like to live next to such an ignorant, imperious behemoth. We are kind of used to 🇺🇸🐂💩. Carney is finally saying what millions of 🇨🇦s have felt for years. There is no turning back for 🇨🇦; the old relationship is over.

lartigue@bsky.social 🇨🇦
@lartigue.bsky.social

Yup 🇨🇦 he’s frank and blunt. In general, he’s well respected. However, there’s a lot of disinformation from the opposition party (about 25% of the population are maga-like). I’m waiting for the spin on such a brilliant speech 😒

Annie 🇨🇦
@annieheron.bsky.social

In WW1, Brits were the allied bosses & things were going badly, officers & leaders by inherited class status vs merit, doing the same failed strategies again & again, refusal to innovate. 🇨🇦's General Sir Arthur Currie did it differently & better. Turned the war around to ally win.

Annie 🇨🇦
@annieheron.bsky.social

If war didn't end when it did, plans were to have Sir Arthur be the top boss, not just Canadian boss. Perhaps the UK & Europe will deeply reflect on what Carney said & is doing. Maybe they will adapt or the public will vote for better politicians.

Sean Faherty
@norton2.bsky.social

Remember when some guy was there for something else and was asked what the problem was and then went on to lecture them about economic inequality and progressive taxation ? They never asked that guy back for some reason

fn-ix
@fn-ix.eurosky.social

Very few dispute the need to become self-sufficient, but it takes time and it would damage Europe more than necessary to alienate the US too soon. It depends on Trump. If he really goes for Greenland, it’s over, but let’s try to drag it out for as long as possible for our own sake.

jaden4808.bsky.social
@jaden4808.bsky.social

No, Trump & the GOP don't want to make liberal Greenland a US state and allocate it 2 US senators and an elector in the electoral college. They want it to be a territory with little or no political representation like Puerto Rico or Guam.

Schraderopolis
@schraderopolis.bsky.social

Carney is great, but you do understand that we here in the US (who are sane) would still take ANY of the above mentioned over the giant steaming pile of stupid orange treason goo we currently have destroying and defiling everything in its domestic and international path.