Russian media editor Margarita Simonyan dismissed the Davos address as empty posturing. “Ah yes, a banker-turned-politician delivering a tearful eulogy for globalist hypocrisy in front of Davos backdrop,” she said… Canadian political author Yves Engler focused on the gap between Carney’s rhetoric and his record. “Mark Carney just accepted a seat on Trump’s Gaza colonial board, backed kidnapping Maduro & continues Canada’s unprecedented military ties to US. Still many are praising the PM for standing up to US & defending sovereignty during today’s speech to World Economic Forum,” he wrote… Journalist Heidi Moore pointed to Western complicity in Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians, noting that moral concern surfaced only when US coercion reached its allies. “Carney was happy to tear down the rules-based order to help Israel slaughter Palestinians. He’s taking exception because NATO nations thought they were immune from being treated like Palestine…" Assal Rad said that Western discomfort stems not from principle, but from self-interest.“To be clear, ‘this bargain no longer works’ because it’s targeting them. They had no problem with a false international order that targeted and subjugated brown people…" Journalist Dimitri Lascaris was even more direct, dismissing Carney’s words as hollow without concrete action. “Mark Carney just agreed to sit on Trump’s fraudulent ‘Board of Peace,’ which is nothing but a cover for Israel’s ongoing genocide. Carney has supported Trump’s regime change operations in Venezuela and Iran. Carney agreed to raise Canada’s military spending to the ruinous level of 5% of GDP, just because Trump ordered his NATO vassals to do so. Unless and until Carney’s actions match his lofty Davos rhetoric, I’m not buying any of what Carney is selling…" Still, the dominant response online focused less on Trump himself and more on Western leaders who, for years, aligned themselves with US power when it devastated non-Western societies, only to recoil now that the same coercive methods are being turned inward.

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