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Terry Glavin: Carney, leader of an anti-Trump alliance that doesn't exist
Claims of the end of the international order are exaggerated
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The thing about “the world stage” is not just that it’s a place for play-acting. It’s also a global venue for wishful thinking, the construction of heroes and villains and imaginary plot twists and sometimes whole-cloth inventions of scenes that sometimes bear almost no relationship at all to events in the real world.
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An instructive illustration of this strange phenomenon occurred over the past week in headlines that roared around the world before the facts had an opportunity to put their trousers on: “Carney constructs a mega anti-Trump trade alliance.” The story was presented as an “exclusive” appearing in the otherwise perfectly respectable European edition of Politico, a digital news and analysis platform.
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“The Canadian prime minister is spearheading discussions between the EU and a major Indo-Pacific trade bloc after calling on middle powers to join forces,” Politico reported.
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This surely would have been a dramatic development in the ongoing story about Prime Minister Carney’s widely celebrated Jan. 20 speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he urged a way forward for “middle powers” being bashed around by the epoch-ending hegemon the United States is said to have become under the erratic weirdo Donald Trump. And it would have been a splendid fulfillment of Carney’s election campaign promise to lead........