"Everything Trump has done last week has made him look tawdry, addled and small. He began his latest play for Greenland by complaining about being passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize and ended it by disinviting Mark Carney from his Board of Peace. For Trump, nothing not even peace transcends his brutish transactionalism. Coolly assessing that transactionalism is what landed Carney in Trump's sights."
"Two things stood out to me about the speech that Carney gave at Davos last week. First, Carney's speech used the word hegemon four times. He said the word America only once, and then only to specify American hegemony. This is who we are now to our northern neighbors: Not the America they once knew, or thought they knew, but the hegemon."
President Donald Trump removed Mark Carney from a proposed Board of Peace via a Truth Social post while publicly pursuing Greenland and lamenting the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump’s actions illustrated a transactional approach to foreign affairs, including tariff threats tied to territorial aims. Mark Carney’s Davos speech repeatedly invoked the term hegemon and referenced Václav Havel’s idea of systems maintained by collective performance, arguing that a single act of refusal can begin to crack illusions of power. Carney positioned himself as a moral counterweight to coercive, transactional statecraft.
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