One foreign policy success Donald Trump doesn’t often talk about is his part in helping Mark Carney win last year’s Canadian election.The Liberal party was expected to lose badly until Trump threatened to take over Canada.Carney’s campaign got a boost from a national movement against US pressure.
As his country has also been a target of Trump, Carney has clearly responded to Trump’s ideas about Greenland. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Canadian prime minister explained the problem for countries that have relied on a world system supported by the US.
“The established international order is weakening,” Carney said, leading to a time of “competition between major powers.” This change requires “medium-sized countries,” like Canada, to form new partnerships, invest in defense, and find new trade relationships.We need to build a new international system from the pieces of the one Trump is damaging.
Britain is also a medium-sized country, and it’s in a challenging position because the US, its main military ally, is starting a trade war with its biggest trading partner, the European Union. Sir
