THE CURRENT → THE ROSE REPORT Issue 1097 · January 28, 2026

America Can’t Afford to Be Smug

Without stricter oversight, America could begin to look as unrecognizable as Europe

America Can’t Afford to Be Smug
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The event regained relevance in style last week, with the focus on the topic du jour — artificial intelligence — as America’s efforts to pry Greenland from Denmark and the pushback from other NATO countries took center stage.

Was it mere liberal hand-wringing? Or was Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney making a true confession when he warned his audience that “the old world order had ruptured”? He added that “we knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false,” and cautioned that we must “stop invoking it as though it still functions as advertised.”

Israel would undoubtedly agree with Carney’s statement — which amounts to an admission of hypocrisy — that “we knew that international law applied with varying rigor depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.”

Carney was targeting President Trump, whom he considers the world’s Rupturer-in-Chief, when he condemned great powers that use economic leverage, including tariffs, to impose their will on other nations.

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