By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/04/2026When Trump kicked off his campaign of incontinent belligerence - putting tariffs on the exports of countries populated only by penguins, trying to steal Greenland - it became impossible for the world's leaders to carry on this pretense. 7/ 170
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/04/2026This led to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney - the world's most Davos man - standing up at this year's World Economic Forum to denounce the whole post-war settlement as a bullshit arrangement, announcing that we were in a period of "rupture." 8/ 160
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/04/2026Carney promised a new world of "variable geometry" in which "middle powers" would exist in overlapping webs of alliances, without the USA: pluralistic.net/2026/01/27/i... 9/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Carney isn’t a hero (and that’s OK) (27 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 140
