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The Guardian view on Keir Starmer and Donald Trump: quiet diplomacy has reached its limit | Editorial

21 janvier 2026 à 19:39

The prime minister has a duty to be candid with the British public about the scale of the global realignment caused by a volatile US president

One foreign policy achievement that Donald Trump prefers not to boast about is his role in helping Mark Carney win last year’s Canadian general election. The incumbent Liberal party faced crushing defeat before Mr Trump threatened to annex Canada. Mr Carney’s candidacy was buoyed up by a patriotic rally against US bullying.

Perhaps because his country has also been coveted by Mr Trump, Mr Carney has given one of the most clear-sighted responses of any democratic leader to the US president’s designs on Greenland. Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, the Canadian prime minister set out the challenge for countries whose security and prosperity have depended on a global system underwritten by the US.

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© Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

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Middle powers assemble? Trump disorder prompts talk of new liberal alliances

21 janvier 2026 à 18:09

As Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen decide ‘to live in truth’, what will it take for Starmer to call out Trump?

Donald Trump has told the Davos economic forum “without us, most countries would not even work”, but for the first time in decades, many western leaders have come to the opposite conclusion: they will function better without the US.

Individually and collectively, they have decided “to live in truth” – the phrase used by the Czech dissident Vaclav Havel and referenced by the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, in his widely praised speech at Davos on Tuesday. They will no longer pretend the US is a reliable ally, or even that the old western alliance exists.

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Annexer le Groenland pour se protéger ? Pourquoi l’argument sécuritaire de Trump ne tient pas

Tous les regards sont tournés vers le Groenland… Eh oui, les États-Unis y ont installé un radar d'alerte précoce. Et dans bien d'autres endroits aussi. Futura fait le point sur ce système qui permet aux États-Unis de détecter une attaque de missiles. Il viendrait s’intégrer au dôme d’or voulu...

‘The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending’: the Canadian PM’s call to action at Davos | Mark Carney

21 janvier 2026 à 15:24

In a rousing speech, Mark Carney made the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order. We reproduce it here

Today I will talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality, where geopolitics – where the large, main power, geopolitics – is submitted to no limits, no constraints.

On the other hand, I would like to tell you that the other countries, especially intermediate powers like Canada, are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that encompasses our values, such as respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the various states.

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Annexer le Groenland pour se protéger ? Pourquoi l’argument sécuritaire de Trump ne tient pas

Tous les regards sont tournés vers le Groenland… Eh oui, les États-Unis y ont installé un radar d'alerte précoce. Et dans bien d'autres endroits aussi. Futura fait le point sur ce système qui permet aux États-Unis de détecter une attaque de missiles. Il viendrait s’intégrer au dôme d’or voulu...

‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump

21 janvier 2026 à 06:43

In a speech at Davos, written by Carney himself, the Canadian prime minister laid out his doctrine for a world of fractured international norms

For much of Mark Carney’s career as an economist and central banker, he existed at the nexus of global thinkers and multilateral institutions. The “rockstar banker” was a fixture at summits, where he spoke beside business leaders and the political elite, espousing the values of international cooperation and the need for open economies and shared rules.

But after less than a year as prime minister of Canada, Carney offered a blunter assessment of the world on Tuesday: “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”

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