A wily former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, famously said that “a week is a long time in politics.”
If anything, he was guilty of understatement.
In the last week alone, US President Donald Trump’s remarks about owning Greenland, European weakness, and his scorn about NATO members’ contributions in Afghanistan have laid bare the stark reality that the old order is dead – and it won’t be resurrected.
Add in a Board of Peace for Gaza that includes the president of Belarus and an invitation sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and it’s been a strange week.
No one captured the mood better than Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose…