(JNS) This was the week when much of the West woke up to the realization that the old world order was dead. A new one was being born, and they didn’t like it at all. And it’s far from clear that Israel can rest easy either.
The Trump administration came to the World Economic Forum in Davos—the very belly of the liberal universalist beast—to tell the rest of the West that globalization was dead. It had failed Europe and the United States, harmed their prosperity and growth, and made them dependent upon and even subservient to others, including their enemies.
The world leaders forced to listen to this lecture were still reeling from US President Donald Trump’s threat to take over Greenland and punish countries that objected. At Davos, he retreated from that into a framework deal with NATO’s head Mark Rutte over Arctic security, which sounds long overdue for the defense of the free world.
Remarkably, no less committed a universalist than Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney told forum...
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