Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made a very important and unexpected statement at the Davos summit. While his speech, expected to cause a stir in European capitals, received no reaction, it was considered historic in all developing countries, and indeed, Carney delivered a historic speech.
Canada, already under Trump’s tariff threats, recently signed new trade agreements with China, prompting Trump to threaten to raise tariffs to 100%. Naturally, Canada will impose the same tariff rates on US goods. Trump’s concern is not China, Canada, or the American people.
In his Davos speech, Carney said things that everyone in the West knows but no one dares to say. He said the following:
The West, in its pursuit of US interests, has forgotten to defend its own.
Western leaders have all essentially aided American imperialism. In return, they had small gains, but these gains did not benefit their own countries.
The US, which entered various parts of the world, including Iraq, under the guise of democracy and human rights, was actually only thinking of its own interests. Democracy and human rights were not important to American leaders, but they only used them as an excuse.
American interests also suited us as the West. We remained silent despite knowing the truth.
The reason Trump is so audacious and threatening is actually the West’s constant subservience to the US.
The USA needed us more than we needed them, but cowardly and passive leaders turned American leaders into gods and began to worship them.
Thanks to Trump, American imperialism has finally begun to devour its own allies.
The West must now defend its own interests. US interests concern only that country.
Carney clearly said ‘The emperor has no clothes,’ but no Western leader has yet emerged who can courageously voice and endorse this. Some leaders, like Macron and Starmer, have made courageous, albeit cowardly, statements, but it’s still not enough.