Canada’s prime minister says world order has suffered a 'rupture' at Davos

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday that there has been a "rupture" in the world order, declaring that "the geopolitics of the great powers is not subject to any constraint." He did not mention the United States or President Trump by name, but the speech made clear where he placed the blame, the Times reported.

Mr. Carney, who used a mixture of French and English in his address and received a standing ovation, said the world is seeing "the breaking of the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a brutal reality," and warned that "the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must." A former governor of Canada’s and England’s central banks, his office estimated he has attended Davos about 30 times.

The speech came as the conference was in turmoil over a growing rift between Europe and the United States tied to President Trump’s effort to make Greenland an American territory. Mr. Carney spoke not long after Mr. Trump posted an A.I. image that included a map of American flags superimposed over both Canada and the United States, and many Canadians have expressed fear Mr.

Trump might act on his stated hopes regarding annexation. Mr. Carney said Canada’s commitment to the NATO article that views an attack on any member as an attack on all was "unwavering," while noting that the article was not written with the consideration that one member would be attacking another.

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