This conversation between @anderspuck and Carlo Masala should be the subject of watch parties all across #NATO countries. Masala’s book, If Russia Wins, has been translated into 23 languages.
#StandWithEurope #StandWithUkraine #saveUSdemocracy

Can NATO survive a war with Russia? — with Carlo Masala
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Can NATO survive a war with Russia? — with Carlo Masala

In this episode, I sit down with Carlo Masala, one of Europe’s leading security scholars, to discuss his new book If Russia Wins. Our conversation explores t...

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"There is a way to file for divorce from Donald Trump and Europe needs to grab the opportunity.

To the public it will look as if nothing has changed. But behind the scenes the EU and the UK could close the joint bank account and cut up the credit cards, or at least set in motion a form of financial separation that limits the power of a controlling former partner."

~ Phillip Inman

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/13

theguardian.com/business/2026/…

Here’s how Europe can file for divorce from Donald Trump

Amid the tumult of the WEF in Davos this week, some investors are leading the way by ditching US government bonds

^{Phillip Inman (The Guardian)}

"The world we knew is dying, slain by the would-be emperor on the Potomac. But something else became visible this week: a new world waiting to be born."

~ Jonathan Freedland

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/12

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far?

The US president took his bullying doctrine to Davos and hit a wall of opposition. If this creates a new western alliance against him, all to the good, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

^{Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian)}

Kate Riga and Josh Marshall discuss the self-destruction of Trump's American on the world stage and the rupture of the world order that Trump has created.

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/11

youtube.com/watch?v=VDdVsAbBps…

Ep. 397: Rupture of the World Order

Kate and Josh discuss the self-destruction of Trump’s America on the world stage and Bill Cassidy’s comeuppance.

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"NATO leaders at last see it, perhaps it will also dawn on some critical American voters."

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/10

"Trump has never believed in the principles that NATO was founded to promote and preserve. He doesn’t feel affinity for liberal democracy. ...

Trump has contempt for democratic norms. He wants to move America’s pieces to the other side of the chessboard, alongside those whose systems and methods he finds more congenial—Russia, China, El Salvador, Turkey, and Hungary."

~ Mona Charen

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/9

thebulwark.com/p/for-some-trum…

For Some, Trump’s Mask Is Finally Slipping

European leaders have given up pretending the president is someone he’s not. Maybe some American voters will, too.

^{Mona Charen (The Bulwark)}

"Trump created another international incident with his mouth as he claimed that the US has never needed to call on our NATO allies."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/8

meidasplus.com/p/today-in-poli…

Today in Politics, Bulletin 292. 1/23/26

… Trump created another international incident with his mouth as he claimed that the US has never needed to call on our NATO allies.

^{Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)}

"Everyone needs to forget everything they think they know about Donald Trump and just see him as Vladimir Putin sees him. As a useful idiot that can destroy America from the inside. ...

Trump for President was a Russian initiative, dating back to the 1980s, when Trump — upon his return from his first trip to Moscow — placed $100,000 worth of newspaper ads attacking NATO."

~ Heidi Cuda

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder #Putin #Russia
/7

bylinesupplement.com/p/billion…

Billionaires, Bagmen, and Thieves

This week has shown that the plot to install Trump as President was the greatest success of foreign espionage in history, writes American political columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda

^{Heidi Cuda (Byline Supplement)}

"It is historic because it marks the end of a productive chapter in the history of trans-Atlantic relations and, face it, the end of American leadership in the world as we have known it. But it is also of great consequence because it marks a massive, ugly, public defeat of Trump and the establishment for all to see of the means by which the menace who is America’s president can be contained and, where necessary, defeated."

~ David Rothkopf

#Trump #Davos #NATO
/6

davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/d…

Davos Was the Beginning of the End for Trump

It's all downhill for here for the America's aging mad king

^{David Rothkopf (Need to Know by David Rothkopf)}

Mary Trump calls Trump's Davos performance "one of probably the most humiliating, consequential events in modern American history. I don't like to call it a speech, but Donald's delusional, mendacious, threatening ramblings on the world stage at Davos. So we're looking at the unraveling of the post-World War II order at the hands of an American president."

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/5

americaamerica.news/p/mary-tru…

Mary Trump Live with Steven Beschloss

A recording from our live conversation

^{Steven Beschloss (America, America)}

"We have ended the American era. And the prime minister of our closest ally, comparing us to the Athenians in the Melian dialogue and to the Soviet Communist Party in the writings of Vaclav Havel, has called us out from Davos. I just want to open this by saying don't blame Mark Carney. He's just telling the truth."

~ Benjamin Wittes

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #Canada #MarkCarney #GlobalOrder
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dogshirtdaily.com/p/the-post-a…

The Post-America Era

Listen now | Wherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, Tyler McBrien, and Eve Gaumond discuss Mark Carney's speech on Canadian-American relations.

^{Benjamin Wittes (Dog Shirt Daily)}

"It is irrevocably altering the world order, and only the proverbial ostrich with its head in the sand can continue to pretend that American hegemony is the benign force it has mostly been in the modern era."

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #Canada #MarkCarney #GlobalOrder
/3

Citing Canadian PM Mark Carney's Tyler McBrien and Benjamin Wittes note that the closest ally of the US is now comparing the US to the Soviets:

"Carney here is saying the quiet part out loud. Trumpism, or MAGA—as well as its cousins overseas—is not some aberration."

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #Canada #MarkCarney #GlobalOrder
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lawfaremedia.org/article/the-s…

The Situation: Our Closest Ally Compares Us To The Soviets

Reading Prime Minister Carney’s Davos speech carefully

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"The United States is being ushered off the international stage. History will remember that as Trump’s most significant contribution."

~ Timothy Noah

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
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newrepublic.com/article/205530…

Trump Takes His American Decline Tour to Davos

In a sad and seedy music-hall performance, a senile autocrat rages against the dimming of his country’s light, as well as his own.

^{The New Republic}

"He never dignified Donald Trump by specifying him as the source of this rupture. But he didn’t need to. ...

The conceptual originality of the speech was the power of the less powerful. The 'great powers' had given up any pretense of self-restraint. By that Carney meant, and didn’t need to spell out, Russia, China, and the United States, It was now up to everyone else, including 'middle powers' like Canada, to fend for themselves, and for their values."

#MarkCarney #Davos #NATO
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"I’s worth noticing the craft, the composition, and the content of these 17 minutes [of PM Carney] on stage. ...

It made several important ideas 'real,' by naming them. That is one of the most powerful things any piece of writing can do. Through the speech, Carney threaded the idea that world relations were at a rupture, not a 'transition.'”

~ James Fallows

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/8

fallows.substack.com/p/a-speec…

A Speech for the History Books.

And for the here and now. A memorable discourse on America's place in the world, by the leader of a US neighbor and former friend.

^{James Fallows (Breaking the News)}

"As Prime Minister of a country whose own territory it is the stated policy of the US president to annex- and which would be encircled by America if Trump succeeds in his ambition of seizing Greenland – he surely feels both the gravity and urgency of the moment keenly."

~ Simon Nixon

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/7

bylinesupplement.com/p/mark-ca…

Mark Carney’s Speech Showed America and Britain the Sort of Global Leadership They Have Now Abandoned

The Canadian Prime Minister’s powerful response to the growing threat from Donald Trump has put other world leaders to shame, argues Simon Nixon

^{Simon Nixon (Byline Supplement)}

"[Carney] didn’t say Donald Trump’s name, though. He didn’t need to. What he said was calmly, straightforwardly earthshaking enough as it was."

~ Evan Hurst

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/6

wonkette.com/p/canadian-pm-mar…

Canadian PM Mark Carney Declares Flame Of American Global Era Extinguished

July 4, 1776-January 20, 2025. It was a good run, or something.

^{Evan Hurst (Wonkette)}

"It's a brilliant articulation of the new architecture that is going to frame the world going forward. So the days of the American hegemonic power, this from 1988 to today, this is the first day you heard the articulation from what was an ally saying America is no longer the lone superpower. It's over."

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/5

"Carney just gave the first speech today of the new global order as it exists. … He was the first major leader to say… America, the United States of America, is no longer a hegemon. We are in a multipolar world, a multilateral world, where the great powers, Russia, China, the United States of America, are finding their equilibrium through panic, fear, greed, & just the pursuit of all of the middle powers."

~ Mike Madrid

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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thelefthook.substack.com/p/und…

Under Trump, A Weak, Isolated America Stumbles Into the New World Order

At Davos, Canada's PM Mark Carney acknowledged that Trump's failed leadership has blown up the fiction of a rules-based order, alienated America's allies, and forced the world to move forward.

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

"We cannot simply carry on as if it’s business and normal. ...

We’ve been lucky through a golden age of peace and prosperity but as he so clearly articulates, that age is gone. Ahead lies [sic] dragons."

Cadwalladr's posting has the full text of Carney's speech. It's also at the Guardian link below.

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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

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

^{Mark Carney (The Guardian)}

"It does what a great speech should do: it gives us the language to process and understand what is happening. It does so from a position of moral clarity. And it includes a call to action to what remains of the liberal world. ...

We can’t respond and act to this hugely consequential geopolitical moment if we are complicit in the denial of our leaders and media. This is a week in which the world we have known has swung on its axis."

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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"Mark Carney’s speech at Davos yesterday really is worth your time. It made some of the front pages today but the news cycle moves so fast that it’s already yesterday’s news. Part of the challenge of this moment - and I believe the job of journalists - is to focus on the signal, not the noise. And if you have time to take in one thing properly, this week, I’d suggest it’s this."

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/1

broligarchy.substack.com/p/the…

The Rupture

Mark Carney nails it. We have to "stop pretending"

^{Carole Cadwalladr (How to Survive the Broligarchy)}

"Meanwhile, anyone who watches the actual speech, or reads the full transcript, sees something entirely different. The gap between the raw material and the coverage is where the sanewashing lives."

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media
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"The functional end of the American century that began in the aftermath of World War II is what [Mark Carney's speech] marks. He hand-wrote that speech. It was not put together by a team of speechwriters. It was a serious adult's remarks to a room full of the world's leaders…"

~ Steve Schmidt

#MarkCarney #Trump #Greenland #Davos #NATO #fascism #Europe
/13

saltypolitics.substack.com/p/a…

A conversation with Julie Roginsky

A recording from Julie Roginsky and Steve Schmidt's live video

^{Julie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)}

"I try to read as much of the Russian press as I can. They're all like cackling about this. And so I think it's just this, this is the red line of red lines where you don't invade another country. And you don't threaten to invade another country. You don't threaten to invade an ally, which almost nobody's ever thought of as a possibility."

~ Rick Stengel

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #Putin
/12

americaamerica.news/p/the-rupt…

The Rupture with Europe and Other Madness

A recording from my live conversation with foreign policy expert Rick Stengel

^{Steven Beschloss (America, America)}

"And so now, you know, this might, instead of being a win for China, it could in the end be a win for Europe because the Europeans are now learning the hard way that they need to stand on their own."

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #China
/11

"They must be celebrating in Beijing. The U.S. can only seriously be a rival to China. It's amazing that we're talking about that. But by the strength of its alliances, by our soft power, the fact that we, you know — I think most of the American people still share values with the rest of Western democracies, but unfortunately, the administration does not."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #China
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paulkrugman.substack.com/p/liv…

Live with Paul Kruman: Davos, Powell, world economy

A recording from Paul Krugman and Harry Litman's live video

^{Paul Krugman}

"Our narcissist in chief has exceeded Putin’s wildest dreams. Russia could not have imagined Trump would damage the US this badly."

~ John Harwood

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media #Putin
/9

zeteo.com/p/trump-putin-damage…

Trump Has Exceeded Putin’s Wildest Dreams

Russia could not have imagined Donald Trump would damage the US this badly.

^{John Harwood (Zeteo)}

"Across the first three weeks of 2026, and especially yesterday, President Trump’s Mad King rantings about Greenland have accelerated into something far more stunning and alarming: We are watching in real-time as a superpower dies by suicide — an all-but unprecedented choice to self-immolate and torch the country’s remaining global trust and friendships."

~ Garrett M. Graff

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media
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doomsdayscenario.co/p/watching…

Watching A Superpower Die By Suicide

This is one of the wildest moments in all of the modern 400-year history of nation-states and geopolitics.

^{Garrett Graff (Doomsday Scenario)}

Ruth Ben-Ghiat offers a list of autocratic rationales behind Trump's fixation on Greenland: plunder, pleasing Putin, partnerships with technofascists, megalomania, corrupting the U.S. military.

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #Putin
/7

lucid.substack.com/p/the-autoc…

The Autocratic Rationales Behind Trump's Greenland Fixation

Plunder, Pleasing Putin, Partnerships with Technofascists, Megalomania, Corrupting the U.S. Military

^{Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)}

"NBC: 'Trump calls for ‘immediate negotiations’ on Greenland, but rules out using force' ...

Every story that treats 'I won’t use force' as the news, rather than 'I reminded everyone that I could use unstoppable force,' contributes to a distorted picture of reality. Readers who rely on mainstream coverage encounter a version of Trump that has been sanded down, made palatable, rendered comprehensible within frameworks that don’t apply to him."

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media
/6

"He said he wouldn’t do it. For now.

You won’t find this in any diplomacy textbook. It’s the language of a protection racket.

So how did reporters cover it?

NPR (original headline): 'Trump says
I won’t use force" to obtain Greenland in Davos speech'

ABC News: 'Trump rules out using military force to acquire Greenland in Davos speech'”

~ Parker Molloy

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media
/5

readtpa.com/p/now-everyones-sa…

Now Everyone's Saying 'Oh, Good'

Trump told the media exactly how they'd cover his Greenland threats. They did it anyway.

^{Parker Molloy (The Present Age)}

"Trump’s territorial adventurism doesn’t just betray specific allies, it demolishes the principle that has prevented great power wars for much of the last century."

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe
/4

"The system worked, in part, because countries believed the U.S. would honor its commitments. ...

The reality is that when the architect of the postwar order becomes its violator, the entire system collapses. If the U.S. can threaten NATO allies with impunity, why should China hold back from attacking Taiwan? Why should Russia stop at Ukraine?"

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe
/3

"America, for all its missteps, had been the guarantor of a rules-based order in which smaller nations could trust that their sovereignty would be respected. American dominance was by no means faultless, but it was consciously unlike the empires of old, with a firm policy against pursuing territorial conquest."

~ Berny Belvedere

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe
/2

theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-att…

Trump’s Attempted Greenland Grab Has Turned America Into a Predatory Power

His bid might have been thwarted for now, but America will be regarded as a global threat going forward

^{Berny Belvedere (The UnPopulist)}

"Trump wants to invade a NATO ally so we can have military bases we already have, to combat a threat that does not exist. To make matters worse, Trump is now citing his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize as a reason for his aggression toward Greenland.

A military takeover of Greenland would blow up NATO, isolate the U.S., and dramatically strengthen Russia and China—and for what?

It’s pure idiocy."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism
/1

messageboxnews.com/p/trumps-gr…

Trump’s Greenland Problem isn't Going Anywhere

It's the rare idea that is putrid politics and policy

^{Dan Pfeiffer (The Message Box)}

President Zelensky:

"Just last year, here in Davos, I ended my speech with the words that Europe needs to know how to defend itself.

A year has passed, and nothing has changed."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews