Observer in A Black Sea Resort
In a stunning moment of candour, Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, shreds the facade of the ‘US Rules-Based Order’, confessing it was a ‘living lie’ where the strong break rules with impunity and enforcement is fatally biased. But not wishing to offend Trump and suffer the consequences of economic retaliation, if not outright economic asphyxiation, Carney deliberately avoided mentioning the order was fundamentally the ‘US-led Rules Based Order’.
I can well remember former Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, and his sidekick, Marise Payne (then Foreign Minister), constantly telling us that Australia firmly believes in the US Rules Based Order. They must have known it was a lie, but the Australians had to endure years of utter crap from these two loonies.
It is now official that the US Rules Based Order died a natural death today. It was buried this morning at the World Economic Forum. No one turned up to pay tributes to this fowl stinking horrid thieving Rules Based Order. This US-led Order is a pariah, along with Morrison and every other Western leader who openly supported it.
The irony of all this is that countries like China, Russia, and Cuba, never accepted this fictional Rules Based Order. Unlike Morrison and other Western leaders, these countries always reaffirmed the UN Charter as the foundation for the international system. These countries followed—and still follow—the UN Charter. These countries (and others like them), which not surprisingly exist outside of the Western orbit, remain persistently faithful to the UN Charter. These countries may not be not perfect; however, they adhere to the UN Charter—not like the Mickey Mouse Rules Based Order Morrison constantly repeated ad nauseam, which was constantly parroted all over the Western world.
But today the West finally came clean and admitted it was a lie. Trump knows the US Rules Based Order is dead. He won’t admit it, but he knows it. Gaza was a ‘gift’ for Trump because—over the blood and bones of 100,000 murdered Palestinians, he came up with a revised slogan called the “Board for Peace” with its own Charter. This Board is so boring because it is the same lie as the US Rules Based Order, repackaged under a different label.
The lie and the fiction remain.At the World Economic Forum, Western leaders are desperately trying to retain control over the world by using weasel words to ‘reaffirm’ democracy, freedom, and human rights. Where were the West’s much flaunted concerns for human rights when the world witnessed the Israeli genocide in Gaza?
Western leaders universally hid under their bed covers, blocked their ears, and waited till the slaughter was over…. but it is NEVER over. It goes on. No one believes these meaningless slogans. The world has a chance to avoid the ramblings of fiction coming from the US-led Western world by totally rejecting Trump’s so-called ‘Board of Peace’. Moving forward in a positive direction globally depends entirely on rejecting Trump and his pathetic ‘Board of Peace’.
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The YouTube link for Carney ‘s speech is
FULL SPEECH: Canada’s PM Carney Says US-Led World Order Is Breaking at World Economic Forum | AC1GPreview YouTube video FULL SPEECH: Canada’s PM Carney Says US-Led World Order Is Breaking at World Economic Forum | AC1G
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FURTHER THOUGHTS
ONE: …..Trump is fuming
At last the western world is waking up. Australia despite having leaders like Keating, Turnbul and Rudd remained fooled by the US rule based order and signed a foolish one-sided Aukus deal.
THE BLOKE AT A BLACK SEA RESORT Responds THUS:
“I appreciate the sentiment, but the truth is the West is still fast asleep. It took a single, honourable leader in Canada to shatter the facade, leaving the rest of their kin reeling that one of their own dared to tell the truth. Instead of waking up, the West is focused on restructuring the same, long-term advantageous system rather than allowing genuine change. Western editorial boards are in full damage control, exemplified by the Australian Financial Review’s disingenuous attack on Carney today in an editorial titled Greenland, where the rules-based order went to die which claims ‘Carney is only calling the system a lie now that it isn’t working in his favour,’ which is a totally disingenuous and dishonest claim. Their narrative relies on a strategic erasure: by referring only to a generic ‘international order’ and omitting the US’s foundational control over it, they transform state-sponsored propaganda into a subtle form of public gaslighting.
A profound, epochal shift is currently reshaping the global order, forcing a deeply reluctant West to confront a new reality it desperately seeks to avoid. Despite their efforts to preserve a waning hegemony through subversion and resistance, the momentum of this transformation appears inevitable. The Western powers may remain entrenched in denial, yet the systemic evolution of the international landscape is proceeding regardless of their compliance.
There is a necessary space for Russia in our world system. Their right to inhabit this earth is as fundamental as that of any other country, and it does not depend on ideological conformity. To suggest that Western civilization’s values are inherently better than all others is an unfounded and false claim. Global order is a tapestry of many systems, with the Western model being only one thread.
Intelligence agencies still have an important role here, but governments need to keep them in check. Intelligence agencies exist to inform national security decisions, not to dictate them. When intelligence leaders overstep by issuing policy mandates, they risk displacing elected officials and undermining the democratic mandate. The role of the intelligence community is to reduce uncertainty for policymakers, not to usurp their authority. Agencies that bypass parliamentary oversight to advocate for specific policies threaten the very foundations of democratic governance. Secrecy cannot serve as a blanket justification for policies or draconian laws based on unverifiable claims, as doing so intentionally evades the rigorous scrutiny of independent scientific inquiry.
Though poles apart, Keating and Turnbull were good leaders for Australia—even though Keating once compared Turnbull to a ‘dud bunger’ (firework) on cracker night saying, ‘You light him up, there’s a bit of a fizz, but then nothing… nothing.’ Rudd was generally okay as opposition leader, keeping power in check, but he was a failure as Prime Minister. Whatever strength he had in opposition quickly fizzled out, and he lost his way, relying only on popularity to keep him in power.
While Turnbull was a likeable pragmatist with admirable prudence and restraint—qualities others in the Liberal party never possessed and still lack—he fell victim to the system, and was a victim of the US system, which Australia remains incestuously bound to that same system, like a fly on an elephant’s arse.
Today, Andrew Hastie has come out of the closet to make his bid for a leadership challenge to replace opposition leader Sussan Ley. He has been waiting to make his move, and now he smells blood as his backers hit the phones to rally support for a coup. This is the man who insinuated China’s rise was akin to the rise of Nazi Germany, and the West needed to do more to undermine China’s rise. That argument was weak, extreme, and overblown, and caused considerable damage to Australia-China relations.
I am glad Hastie is making a leadership bid for the Liberal party– a party that has suffered consecutive electoral defeats and a sustained decline in popularity. It is encouraging to see him throw down the gauntlet for the leadership. With Hastie steering the ship, the Liberal Party is headed straight for the rocks, a race to the bottom, as he steers the Liberal Party into a deeper tailspin and eventually total oblivion. It is called ‘The arrogance that goes with failure,’ which is the inability to learn; that despite experiencing a downfall, Liberal leaders always maintain an inflated, overconfident, and superior self-image, refusing to accept blame or learn from mistakes. Hastie is no different. Just look at his face. It says all we need to know. This combination acts as a ‘silent killer’ or a ‘perfect storm’ for increasingly severe and lasting failures, blinding Hastie and the Liberal Party to reality and ensuring their irrelevancy.