The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, impressed a wave of enthusiastic nodding among the many cosmopolitan crowd gathered in Davos final month when he took to the podium and proclaimed that the world order underwritten by the US, which prevailed within the west all through the postwar period, was over.
The organizing precept that emerged from the ashes of the second world struggle, that interdependence would promote world peace by knitting nations’ pursuits collectively in a drive for frequent safety and prosperity, now not works. The US blew it up.
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