It’s TACO Time For Greenland After Trump Flops At Davos

[Mac1958]

I think that summarizes trump's ignorant, deluded world view very well. We elected a conman, not a statesman, and so he acts like the former instead of the latter.

That was John Gotti up there. The world saw it.

 

[Mac-7]

Here are some excerpts from what I believe will be the seminal speech of our time.

Today, I'll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints. But I also submit to you that other countries, particularly middle powers like Canada, are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that embodies our values, like respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of states.
It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry. That the rules-based order is fading. That the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must. This aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable — as 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.

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.

Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.
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.

The multilateral institutions on which middle powers have relied — the WTO, the UN, the COP — the very architecture of collective problem solving, are under threat.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-speech-davos-rules-based-order-9.7053350

Everyone should read that speech in its entirety. It's a masterpiece, cutting through the constant gaslighting of the trump regime and exposing its affect on the world with devastating clarity.

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

One lead by a moral degenerate with a singular goal in mind, unbridled power for himself.

The “ the seminal speech of our time?”

Do you drama queen much?

Carney is essentially explaining why he has chosen to make canada a vassal state of communist china

He has moved beyond the realm of knee-jerk anti trumpism, who will leave office in 3 years, and is now boldly anti America

 

[Darlo kittu]

I think that summarizes trump's ignorant, deluded world view very well. We elected a conman, not a statesman, and so he acts like the former instead of the latter.

 

[Hafar1014]

Yikes. Germany joins Carney. Here we go.

"Relationships based on mutual trust and respect". Not threats, trolling, intimidation and punishment.

Hes a sore loser manufacturing is leaving Germany and coming to America caused by high energy costs shortages and massive regulations. Europe is going down the tubes because they are socialist and immigration is destroying their culture.
America is rising in power and all the socialists are in a panic as they fail

 

[berg80]

Any doubt they had has been erased.

Carney helped to refine the suspicions the world leaders feared for some time. America, for as long as the Orange Menace is in charge, is no longer the lynchpin of the post WW II global order. Worse, it is disrupting it.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Canada's biggest contribution to civilization: watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow

 

[Mac1958]

Carney helped to refine the suspicions the world leaders feared for some time. America, for as long as the Orange Menace is in charge, is no longer the lynchpin of the post WW II global order. Worse, it is disrupting it.

And there's more:

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I think that summarizes trump's ignorant, deluded world view very well. We elected a conman, not a statesman, and so he acts like the former instead of the latter.

It's amazing. It's like watching the Ukrainian Army who years later still cant figure out the war they're fighting.

Trump is a Chaos Agent, he INTENTIONALLY upends the table BECAUSE it throws most opponents completely off-guard

 

[berg80]

Carney is essentially explaining why he has chosen to maje canada a vassal state of communist china

Because he made a deal with China regarding electric cars? Don't be such a myopic fool. Widen your gaze and try to understand what the world sees in us. A country temporarily in the grasp of an ignorant would be tyrant.

 

[Mac-7]

Wall Street has a term for President Donald Trump’s habit of making loud threats and then backing down: TACO, short for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” And on Wednesday, he did just that.

After delivering a wildly incoherent speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump abruptly caved on his Greenland nonsense—along with the tariffs he threatened to impose on Europe for refusing to bend to his will.

It's TACO time for Greenland after Trump flops at Davos

Wall Street has a term for President Donald Trump’s habit of making loud threats and then backing down: TACO, short for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” And on Wednesday, he did just that. ...

www.dailykos.com

A concept of a piece of ice.

Who says trump flopped at Davis?

Only libs who are ok with managed decline of capitalist, mostly western, nations

The of the world is cheering Trump’s speech

 

[berg80]

And there's more:

Davos acted as the world's epiphany that both trump is a dangerous clown AND he is a bloviating coward who will try to extract everything he can for himself until someone stands up to him and says, "**** off."

 

[SweetTea]

Correct they need us more than we need them

These folks have been indoctrinated not to believe in American exceptionalism, so they don't believe this. I will say, that we are becoming less and less exceptional as the left gets more and more wacky and are allowed to control policy, particularly foreign policy. They are absolutely HORRIBLE at foreign policy because they have no backbone and/or they don't want to see the US succeed.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

smarter than you and way more wealthy

Trump isn't smarter than a toddler.
Which means he's twice as smart as his cult.

about what? the world?

The world and everything in it.

truth about what? mighty vague

ANYTHING besides his name.

he's the president of the USA, they ALL seek attention......duh

NO one in the world seeks more attention than Trump.

more charm than you can ever have, oh and he's rich

Trump is a rude,crude grifter.
That's how he got rich.

now you are a cosmetic expert huh.....sounds gay

Trump tries to be...........

Just like everything else, Trump ***** up anything he touches.

a vast majority of the US population, the alternative was a drunk ******* moron

NOT even close.

 

[Bitterhook]

And there's more:

Tell that ****** to "bring it" because we already kicked their ass more than once.

 

[Mac-7]

Because he made a deal with China regarding electric cars? Don't be such a myopic fool. Widen your gaze and try to understand what the world sees in us. A country temporarily in the grasp of an ignorant would be tyrant.

Thats a good first step towards serfdom

 

[Muhammed]

Here are some excerpts from what I believe will be the seminal speech of our time.

Today, I'll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints. But I also submit to you that other countries, particularly middle powers like Canada, are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that embodies our values, like respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of states.
It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry. That the rules-based order is fading. That the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must. This aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable — as 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.

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.

Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.
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.

The multilateral institutions on which middle powers have relied — the WTO, the UN, the COP — the very architecture of collective problem solving, are under threat.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-speech-davos-rules-based-order-9.7053350

Everyone should read that speech in its entirety. It's a masterpiece, cutting through the constant gaslighting of the trump regime and exposing its affect on the world with devastating clarity.

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

One lead by a moral degenerate with a singular goal in mind, unbridled power for himself.

Canada needs to stop oppressing it's people.

 

[SweetTea]

Davos acted as the world's epiphany that both trump is a dangerous clown AND he is a bloviating coward who will try to extract everything he can for himself until someone stands up to him and says, "**** off."

Or maybe he is telling the world that we will no tolerate being taken advantage of. If Western Europe wants the US out of NATO, so be it. They will be destroyed in short order. They need the US far more than we need them. That is a fact.

 

[berg80]

These folks have been indoctrinated not to believe in American exceptionalism

The foolishness of that belief became apparent in 2016 when a pathologically lying conman turned anger and frustration in to votes for the most unfit candidate in US history.

 

[Mac1958]

Davos acted as the world's epiphany that both trump is a dangerous clown AND he is a bloviating coward who will try to extract everything he can for himself until someone stands up to him and says, "**** off."

A bully only understands being punched in the nose.

 

[berg80]

A bully only understands being punched in the nose.

He went down like a flabby sack of potatoes.