Mark Landler
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314 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 30 Jul
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And most extraordinarily, you had Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada deliver, I think, what's going to be remembered for years as an extremely significant speech.
in which he described what's at stake in the loss of the international order.
And he went back into history and described how this order was set up, who it benefited, of course, principally the United States.
How there were elements of dishonesty and hypocrisy to that system.
which nevertheless everybody went along with because not only did the United States benefit, but the smaller and middle powers did too, both through the economic ties that were generated by it and, crucially, the protection it afforded to the weaker states.
And essentially what Mark Carney said is, Let me be direct.
That system is over.
That bargain no longer exists between the great powers and the middle powers.
We now live in an openly predatory world.
And for countries like Canada, like other European countries, to survive in that world, they're going to need to be much more pragmatic, to some extent less values-driven, willing to cut deals with a greater number of actors, including China.
And so if Donald Trump, in his characteristically visceral way, was laying out the threat, Mark Carney was supplying in a deeply articulate way the response.
Well, this is, of course, the heart of the matter.
And on one level, you have to say they don't have a lot of cards.
Were the United States to launch an all-out military assault on Greenland, there is a 0% chance that Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Denmark are going to go to war with the United States.
Now, remember, of course, President Trump appeared to rule that out.
But, you know, with regard to other threats, notably the threat in Ukraine, the threat from Russia, you're already beginning to see the outlines of that kind of response.
Germany
has joined France and the UK in building what they call a coalition of the willing, a proposal to send tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine or around Ukraine to help secure the country in the event of a ceasefire with Russia.
you could see a series of smaller alliances between Baltic countries or between Mediterranean countries.
So it doesn't have the overarching feel of the NATO alliance, but there are these more piecemeal arrangements that countries can make with each other.
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