THE 'RULES BASED' ORDER WAS A LIE.
Canadian PM Mark Carney has stood up to the USA. Canada has made a trillion dollar deal with China. At the annual capitalist junket at Davos he exposes the myth of democracy and the rules based order. This article is the best I've seen on the issue - by People's World, and the Communist Party of the USA......TRUMP WILL NOW TURN HIS GUNS ON HIM.
'The capitalist class and its partisan political representatives inside the United States have been divided for years over how to respond to the system’s prolonged crisis of profitability and the rise of challengers like China.
One faction favored a continuation of U.S.-led neoliberal globalization, anchored in free trade agreements like NAFTA, multilateral institutions such as the WTO and IMF, and the projection of U.S. power alongside partners through alliances like NATO.
Another faction—embracing nationalism and authoritarianism and more willing to discard any pretense of universal rules—advanced the view that U.S. dominance could only be saved by turning to economic warfare, tariffs, sanctions, and raw force. Guaranteeing U.S. corporate power wins out against its rivals, they argued, required a return to an imperial bloc strategy, the carving out an American-controlled “sphere of influence” as in the days of the Monroe Doctrine........Far from the usual platitudes about the “rules-based order,” Carney plainly declared that the old architecture of U.S.-led multilateralism—once lauded by leaders like himself as the guarantor of stability—is being torn apart under the pressures of great-power rivalry, economic coercion, and unilateral aggression....Carney’s rhetoric lays bare what Marxists and progressives have been saying for decades: The post-World War II order was always a fiction sustained by the domination of U.S. capitalism, not a genuine egalitarian system of global governance. The closest the world ever came to that was the wartime anti-fascist cooperation between the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, and the Allies, but that was scuttled in exchange for the Cold War. What came afterward was an arrangement that locked in advantages for U.S. corporations and banks while still leaving plenty of opportunities for the capitalists of other countries to also reap benefits. However, “this bargain no longer works,” Carney said. His speech reflects the dilemma facing an elite trapped between loyalty to a collapsing framework and the need to adapt to a world in which U.S. capitalism no longer offers predictable leadership, only demands for alignment and obedience.
