System Update with Glenn Greenwald SHOCKING Confession by Canada's PM Mark Carney at Davos
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Jan 22, 2026 A surprising speech by Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos challenges the notion of a benevolent 'rules-based' international order. Glenn Greenwald highlights Carney's admission that this framework is often a convenient illusion upheld by powerful nations. He critiques Western media's portrayal of foreign policy, emphasizing hypocrisy in actions versus rhetoric. The discussion includes Carney's call for honesty among middle powers and the impact of dollar hegemony. Despite skepticism about real change, Carney's candid revelations are deemed significant for future discourse.
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Establishment Admitted Their Own Hypocrisy
- Glenn Greenwald highlights Carney's admission that Western leaders knowingly pretended the order existed because it benefited them.
- Carney frames the admission as driven by self-interest now undermined by shifting power dynamics.
Rules-Based Order Was A Useful Fiction
- Mark Carney argued the "rules-based international order" was a useful fiction that advantaged Western powers.
- He said that fiction no longer protects middle powers because economic integration became a tool of coercion.
Havel Analogy: Remove The Sign In The Window
- Carney invoked Václav Havel's "power of the powerless" to compare Western foreign-policy rituals to Soviet-era signs in shop windows.
- He urged middle powers and companies to "take their signs down" and stop performing the fiction.
