Geopolitical Analysis: A Bird's-Eye View of the Global Situation

[sToRmR1dR]

Trump to idiotic EU politicians: You are not capable to protect Greenland, so we'll take it, because "it's for your safety". Trump should implement Resolution 1244 in Greenland.

What goes around comes around, eh?

 

[Laurentien2]

- The top PTB on earth are trying, doing or changing something, but what and why?

Don’t know but here are some of my taught.
Knowing that Trump (America) can not be defeated militarily the old European establishment can still efficiently wage an economic war on it. European counties hold the majority of the US depth and it can be waged as weapon if Trump push it too far. Carney, I think, was put in place (stolen election) by the old banking overlord to eventually use him (or Canada) as and extra leverage on that economic battle front. 80% of Canada trading is toward the US, they count on Canada in all kind of domain especially for raw material and that can make Canada a good battling ram for this potential war. A decoupling economic strategy of Canada from the US seems to be developing as recent even seem to show. Carney first two visits in foreign countries this year, China and Qatar, certainly send the strong message to Trump (USA) that Canada is opening up to new market and economic partnership and agreement to very strong player to say the least.

American apparent expansionist view sure gives the rest of the world food for the taught. I can't condemn Carney to finally turn away from the US in finding market for our incredible potential and latest discoveries in natural resources. If you think that Carney when to China only to sale them beans and bring back electric car think again. But what else as Canada to offer! This may give us a clue as to what Canada have that the Chinese will need in the coming years, LITHIUM.

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Canada is experiencing a significant lithium boom with recent discoveries of high-purity deposits across the country, particularly in Quebec's James Bay region, which hosts major projects like NAL and potential "district-scale" finds, and Northern Ontario, with new pegmatite zones identified near Thunder Bay. Other key areas include Manitoba (TANCO Mine), Newfoundland (emerging LCT district), British Columbia (first significant pegmatite discovery), and the Northwest Territories, highlighting Canada's growing role in supplying battery minerals.
See this;

A Huge Lithium Deposit In Canada May Have Just Been Found Thanks To AI Satellites - SlashGear

Using AI and satellite-based sensing, researchers have identified a huge lithium deposit in Canada, that could reshape North America’s battery supply chain.

www.slashgear.com

or here explained in a podcast

And this is just in Quebec. There are discoveries of lithium in vast amount in Ontario, Manitoba and the norther territory.

So Carney is trip to China and opening the Canadian market to their electric car may be only the start of a closer economic partnership. As it was mentioned in the podcast, Canada intends to not extract the mineral and sale them on the world market (usually the US) but refine it by developing Canada is own industrial capacity. But for that you need money and Carney next stop provided it, Qatar.

Live from Doha, Qatar, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a major address announcing a $290 billion strategic investment package from Qatar into Canada, marking one of the largest foreign investment commitments in Canadian history. The announcement outlines sweeping new partnerships covering trade, defence cooperation, artificial intelligence, clean energy, electric vehicles, and infrastructure development. Carney also addresses negotiations on double taxation agreements, expanded cultural and educational exchanges, and Canada’s role in global security, NATO commitments, and Arctic concerns including Greenland.

$290 Billion wow! Would have loved to see Trump is face when he learned about it.
I have to give credit to Carney; he sure looks like he knows how to play the game and this is probably just the beginning.

Maybe there's no catch? He's a money man, and China (and others) are more stable investment partners than the Trump regime right now. He's operating within a set geo-economic framework, and it's just good business sense to pivot away from an increasingly belligerent America.
Time will tell if as you said if Carney is just a good money man open for good business but I find it timely deal with China and Qatar may be perceived by our southern neighbor president differently. As I said time will tell.

 

[unkl brws]

I watched Carney and thought to myself, 'He sounds so damned reasonable, ministerial - and even impassioned. What's the catch?'

Whatever the catch is, it doesn't involve making Canada a healthy and prosperous country (imo). What makes me say this? The fact that he didn't address the nation of Canada with this speech, he gave it to the errand boys and girls of the PTB/Consortium at Davos. That is where his allegiance lies (osit).

John Carter of Barsoom recently weighed in on Carney's recent sojourn to do business with China;

John Carter (@barsoom)

If Canada wants to preserve its sovereignty as the American Empire embraces naked assertion of national interest unbound from international lawl, courting China is just about the most retarded thing you could do. The theory behind this is that expanded trade with China will insulate the...

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[SOTTREADER]

Canadian PM Mark Carney's speech today at the WEF in Davos:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013688864972448138

This follows his surprise announcement in Beijing last week that Canada would "form a strategic partnership (in some industries) with China."

His speech reminds me of Putin's 2007 Munich Security Conference speech explaining the fundamental flaw of hegemony and signalling Russia's intention of forging its own path. 19 years later, and only because the US is by now explicitly threatening to 'eat' some of its erstwhile 'allies', Putin's core idea has finally been taken up by a Western leader.

I'm unsure whether I feel glad or mad that a Western, anglophone, NATO country's leadership is finally admitting that "we knew all along that the rules-based order was really just a 'slogan in the window' and we all looked the other way while the 'rules' were applied asymmetrically, so long as we benefited materially..."

I personally think the speech is a big F U to Trump in particular.

I'm not surprised by how articulate and well thought out his speech is. These people aren't dumb. Most are very highly educated.

That he is matching the tone of Putin to me indicates that Canada has lost trust in the US and is looking to reposition itself so that it's not so exposed to the whims and dictates of America.

I think the speech only works if EU follow suit so I think that whole thing at the beginning about shopkeepers taking down the sign is a message to European leaders.

The only problem all these people have e.g. Carney is most of them can be blackmailed by US intelligence. I mean, imagine a story comes out tomorrow about Carney being on Epstein's list...

 

[Laurentien2]

European counties hold the majority of the US depth and it can be waged as weapon

They sure didn't wait long to send an economic signal.
10 min. long only podcast but right to the point.
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[mocachapeau]

Regarding the Carney speech... Judging from some of the comments above I get the impression that many of you read it in a similar fashion as myself. As Niall put it, Carney now sounds like a nationalist-populist, talking about the importance of countries preserving their sovereignty, etc. This goes against pretty much everything we know about him, which seems to be a major red flag. It's also nothing new given his habit of saying one thing to eastern provinces and another thing when speaking out west.

Here in Canada, Carney keeps talking a big game regarding exploiting our resources but nothing ever seems to materialize, or even move forward. Well, except that he has recently thumbed his nose at the US by cosying up to China, a country that not long ago he referred to as the greatest threat to Canada in the world. And investigations have proven that China has been infiltrating our political class, influencing elections and policy for quite some time. But seeing the reactions to this speech by all the liberal types on FB - my fellow Canadian friends - you'd think he was the new Messiah.

My immediate reaction is that the speech is filled with statements that each cause me to ask the question, "What exactly does that mean?" Or, "How exactly is that supposed to work?"

He seems to be saying that if we bind together with all the other middle-power countries we will have super-strength to deal with whatever the US throws at us. But, doing this will come at a cost. What cost, precisely, he doesn't say. I'm assuming it has something to do with individual Canadians suffering greatly for an unspecified period of time, something he has been saying since the moment he got elected - elbows up, Canada! So again, nothing new, just couched in different language.

Geographically speaking, I have a hard time seeing how any of our new partners could help us stand up to the US if it decided to go bonkers and annex us. But that would be the worst case scenario.

Aside from him pointing out that the old world order is gone and a new one is forming, I find most of what he said so open to interpretation that people are interpreting it the way they want to, deciding that it means exactly what they want to hear. Thus the high praise.

I have my doubts.

 

[Cosmos]

I think there is something important to recognize especially in today’s world:

Pretty much all leaders of countries in the world today do, say and think in terms of what their various advisors tell them about any given topic and they mostly also know that what they will say in that regard “will be safe/correct and/or acceptable“ (to whom ever) in one way or the other if they stay on the line of what the advisors say.

One possible exception to that rule is Putin who actually appears to know himself many areas in depth and wouldn’t even need that many advisors. AND at least some of his advisors he can trust and he probably correctly knows who those are. In other words, he can and will form his own good opinions even if he gets bad advice.

Trump also believes “he can form his own good opinions“ while his advisors are probably experts in making him believe that this is the case via clever manipulations.

And the Canada guy as well as many others are likely in big parts also just such teleprompter people babbling out whatever their advisors say and deem correct, with little to no worries of checking or questioning anything they are told to say. Many such leaders especially in the west I would say couldn’t care less and would say and do pretty much anything they are told.

 

[SOTTREADER]

Not that it applies here but if I were to extrapolate from what I understand of business, especially of the corporate kind, speech and articulation is one of the most important skills.

You need to be able to tell a story, you need the story to be clear and easy to understand, it needs to be compelling and you also need to talk within accepted "frameworks"... You shouldn't say things that come as a surprise to the people you are aligned with etc.

All I know is a lot of training and preparation would have gone into that speech he gave. One doesn't just roll out of bed and make such speeches.