One month before the Americans launched their military offensive against Iran, the U.S.’ most vital global partners convened at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and openly scrutinized the reliability of the U.S. as a trusted ally.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned the other world leaders and prominent business executives that they should resist the urge to “go along to get along, to accommodate, to avoid trouble, to hope that compliance will buy safety.”
Prime Minister Carney stated clearly: “It won’t.”
Those diplomatic cracks have only deepened over the course of the six-month war as Trump uses the same tone of threats as leverage against allies and adversaries alike.
At the same forum in Davos last January, French President Emmanuel Macron laid bare his direct assessment that the old global order of the last 80 years is “shifting to a world without rules.” “Imperial ambitions are resurfacing,” Macron said, a nod to Trump’s go-it-alone expansionist motivations.
MSNOW: 6 months into Iran war, Trump’s threats to allies deepen U.S. isolation