Devika Misra

A few points about Carney's outstanding speech at Davos. What he said about the middle path is what the Indians have been practising for decades. When India did it, driven by its national interests, we were attacked as fence sitters who were shy of taking positions. Now Carney realises that the third way is not actually fence sitting, it is standing on one's ground. Two, what Carney said about the rules-based order is something we have been saying in the East for quite some time. The rules of the rules-based order were framed by the West and they followed the order as long as they thought it favoured them. The rules were not fair. Partnership and cooperation were used as euphemisms for subordination. Carney's Canada or Frederiksen's Denmark happily supported America's illegal wars in the South until now. Just look ag Carney's own response on Jan 3 when Venezuela was bombed and its president abducted. It took a direct threat from Washington to take over the whole of Canada for the Canadian Prime Minister to realise that the rules-based order was a lie. Third, what Prime Minister Carney did at Davos was the proclamation of the death of the post-war order. It died a long time ago. But the West never accepted it because they thought they could keep the alliance together by, like what Macron said, doing "great things" on countries like Iran or Syria. But the cracks are so wide now that even the Canadians, dependent on the US up to their eyeballs, can't ignore them any more.