“To me, a town looks better when you have military people [on the streets].”
That was but one of the many, many 5-alarm fire-worthy statements the former leader of the free world slurred before a packed scrum of reporters at a White House press briefing yesterday afternoon, mere hours after he terminated the Western world order.
I mean that quite literally.
“So at what point are we going to realize the enemy is within 🤬,” read a social media post promoted by Donald Trump, “China and Russia are the boogeymen when the real threat is… NATO…”
Regardless of whatever intention the commander in chief may have had, regardless of how earnestly he believes what he reposted, the planet responded appropriately. Western leaders, oh-so conveniently gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum, all but excommunicated the US from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance that lasted nearly eight decades.
“I will talk today about the breaking of the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction, and the beginning of a brutal reality where the geopolitics of the great powers is not subject to any constraint,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told the crowd of dignitaries.
“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.”
“Let me be direct,” he pronounced, “we are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.”
“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”
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The Bad Orange Man has, at the very least, for a few generations, removed us from the West.
Zeteo
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