Mark Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum
Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian Jan 21, 2026
Just a couple of hours after I wrote that I hadn’t yet seen the major agenda of Davos 2026, Canadian PM Mark Carney made a speech that suddenly made it clear.
So, what is the speech about?
It’s about how the US are bad guys, attempting to boss around the world through strength and nothing more. That the “rules-based order” is, and always was, a lie (sort of). That US hegemony is bad and must end. That countries should be independent (but also not really).
It is rambling and non-specific, alluding to ideas without declaration of a real position, save that the old way of doing things is over, and there’s no going back.
He sums this up with a closing line has a certain…familiarity:
we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just.”
Hmmm.
The takeaway is that this is an important speech. How do we know that? Well, because everyone is saying so.
“Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump”, opines the Guardian. The New Statesman agrees, headlining:
Europe has a lot to learn from Mark Carney – Europe must learn that it is time to reckon with what the US has become
On social media, everyone from Robert Peston:
Mark Carney: “The middle powers must act together. Because if we are not at the table we are on the menu”. You won’t hear a more important speech for some considerable time https://t.co/rTR8h7LsId
— Robert Peston (@Peston) January 20, 2026
…to Alastair Campbell (who can’t resist shilling his podcast as well):
Speeches still matter. A privilege to be there to hear one of the best – and most important – of recent times from @markjcarney yesterday. Others need to follow his lead. New @restispolitics ep recorded before his speech but all themes covered !!! Wherever you get your pods pic.twitter.com/jopDYX8RyT
— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) January 21, 2026
Fluffing Carney’s supposed “realism” and “integrity” has become the hobby of everyone who fancies themselves a liberal, and this clearly signals a shift in narrative.
Even some who should know better are buying in, tempted to a mainstream agenda by Carney’s (rather disingenuous) denunciation of the “rules-based international order”:
A central, decades-old prong of the propaganda machine of DC’s bipartisan foreign policy blob — as well as their stenographers in establishment media rags like The Atlantic and The Economist — is that the US nobly acts to uphold the “rules-based international order,” which they… https://t.co/qBA6W54F4l
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 21, 2026
This isn’t a new or even an unforeseen development, but rather the evolution of an agenda that has been plain for some time.
In one of those mad MSM coincidences, just hours before Carney’s “important speech” in Davos, Gordon Brown was expressing the exact same thoughts in slightly different words in a column for The Guardian:
As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership
This column is, if anything, more explicit than Carney’s speech, “The idea that the liberal rules-based order can survive his presidency now seems complacent. This is a historic moment – and a time to act”, he says.
Adding “The real question now is whether the 2020s will be defined by the complete collapse of the order’s already crumbling pillars and the atrocities accompanying it, or whether an international coalition of the willing can come together to build a new global framework in its place.”
We know what this is. We have written, countless times, about the “end of hegemony” narrative and rise of new post-Imperial Global Order in its place.
In short, in order to enter a utopian post-national world, the old world has to be broken down and the old system discredited.
That’s why you’ll have liberal marketplace of ideas flooded with vague semi-concessions to the brutal reality of the US empire.
And that’s why you have Donald Trump strutting around the world stage playing the villain. Rambling about Greenland and asylums and peace prizes, precisely so the public will boo and hiss while chosen leaders for the globalist future can appear calm and articulate in their opposition.
It’s been a predictable for a long while, but 2026 may be the year the USA officially becomes “the bad guy”, a paper dragon for our globalist heroes to slay.
The old (imaginary) “rules-based international order” will collapse, and we will build back better.
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US hegemony ended in 1963 Kit — Where have YOU been?
That’s when the CIA rolled over for their Mossad handlers; the US military was used as a mammoth truck pool for Israel. And that was it.
Just ask bankers, or better yet, the US politicians who gave an Israeli prime minister 47 standing ovations last year.
Check my notes. You’ll see it.
Oh the globalist lackeys of the RKM are rushing to the rescue…”don’t worry boss nothing will stop the world from turning into a miserable gay ni99erfest as you have planned..”
After Trudeau, we’re supposed to be following Carnage? His cheap words cast many votes for the onrushing totalitarian world. He’s an elitist and we all know what he feels for the rank and file world citizen.
Courtesy of Simplicius, this is the logo for Trump’s Board of Peace, as if North America is the only piece of land on the planet.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bBnW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40de2621-b1ce-4655-a4f6-e3b60bc89f3f_738x519.png
Good piece. As for the ambulatory glory-hole stooge Carnal, a fitting follow up would be for him to be thrown into the street, get a few layers flayed off, then rolled in salt and pig shit.
That image won’t link but here’s the Simplicius article in which it featured. The artist’s impression of the Gaza beachfront properties look like a Hollywood poster of a civilisation on another planet.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/hoodwinks-and-hijinks-trump-nabs?publication_id=1351274&post_id=185260138&isFreemail=true&r=eq7my&triedRedirect=true
Mark Carney’s analysis of this significant sector of contemporary geopolitics is brilliantly lucid. If only there were enough national leaders of his intellectual calibre! But there are not, obviously. And that brings me to my grim point:
It is we, the voters, who put the arseholes into power. It is therefore we who are responsible for the condition of the ‘democratic’ world. (You, Canadians, are the contemporary notable exception. Big congratulations to you!)
If ” Europe has a lot to learn” from some bankster like Carney Barker…. then Europe is more fcked-up than even I thought!
It figures… 🙄
Mark Carney, the P.M. and leader of the once hated Liberal Party of Canada under the most hated P.M. in history – Justin Trudeau has brought back a modicum of pride to the country. Yes, we know he’s still a Globalist – lite. But the bizarre bully to the south, Trump, couldn’t resist saying Canada owes it all to the USA, or words to that effect. When it comes to strange wording and reason being abused, just go back and listen again to Trump’s complete speech at Davos.
what’s so new about carneys ‘s speech. nothing. the rules based order is dying fast and there is another order emerging as its replacement. it’s called BRICS. the west needs to wake up and accept or be left behind with its economies in a mess. the west’s financial and economic as a means of attrition against those countries that don’t obey will cease to be effective and replaced by new systems already in place as developed by Russia and China. hence the dead snake economically wounded by its own hand is more dangerous than alive
LOL…
It’s a delight to watch these imbeciles in action, all the reprobates of yore back redressing the stage..all your favourite bankers and billionaires, trying to save the absolute financial clusterfuck they have created in the last hundred years..and their own scrawny necks..
nothing is off the table, murder mayhem and tough table talk… as they give the muggles a nice soft neck rub as they try to slowly slide them through the abattoir door..
dear dear..you’d best ask a chump bot if mark can save you all..
It’s never been U.S. hegemony , it’s been ZOG hegemony with the U.S. as the vehicle/proxy. BRICS ‘hegemony’ will be next, all part of the script, as the final stages of the JWO are being implemented.
How do you humiliate sociopaths? Trump, Macron Et al. have no conscience, guilt,
or shame. Just more ZOG theater designed to distract and degrade the plebs.
Clearly, the goal is to annihilate any semblance of liberal, free-market capitalism, democracy, and middle-class affluence. What sort of soap opera they parade in front of us is immaterial. It’s the techno-gulag they will usher in right after that matters.
I agree. Nothing special, really and appointed (not elected). Trump was right too, (again) but easily an improvement over Trudeau. Good speech, but Canadians DO (and should) be able to vote!
Jimmy Dore has a better take on Carney at the WEF.
“The MOST SHOCKING Thing Said At WEF Forum’s Davos 2026!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBdW87dj92I
Dore shows that Carney is openly admitting the that the UN “rules based” order we thought we were under was a total scam. It was used as a cover to justify the unjust wars and plundering of the poorer nations in places like the Middle East, and that Canada and other NATO nations went along with the crimes in order to get along. Now that the big bully on the block has decided to also raid their own homes do they cry out for an actual rules based order.
Does Carney want to stop the US from bombing and exploiting nations like Iran or Venezuela where the NATO nations would profit from the US and Israeli aggressions by sharing in the spoils, as in the past in places like Iraq? No he wants a unity of middle nations now to unite and protect themselves from US aggression.
It is difficult to see what nation is more despicable in the entire NATO complex. Globalist Carney now seeing that Canada is at the other end of the huge US shtick being waved around to extort and plunder any nation in its reach, now wants to take his hockey puck home.
The problem now is that no nation can have any faith that an actual rules based international trotted out by the globalists would or could be genuine. The universal language appears to be that if you have the power you can do anything you want. The America First neocons and Zionists, as well as the controlling international banking cartel which “owns” the UN in any case have no real use for a rules-based anything unless it serves their interests.
What Dore and Knightly conveniently miss is that Carney’s speech not only is an exposure and a condemnation of Western nations such as Canada and Denmark in going along in order to get along with the the “rules based” scam, but he is also exposing that the principal fraudster nation in the scam was the US, together with a few other P5 nations.
Carney is a F*cking scumbag.
He is a Brookfieled boy who is manoeuvering Canada into position that benefit his and his cronies stock portfolio .
The brain dead liberals swallowed his BS and he’s done a 180 degree turn on most of his election promises.
He is pissing off Trump and selling out Canada to the Chinese.
More intelligent countries would have him in jail by now for treason and throw away the key.