No qualifiers. No “but we will continue to raise concerns through appropriate channels.” No “while acknowledging the complexity of the bilateral relationship.” Just - we take the world as it is.

Meanwhile, in Paris, Emmanuel Macron was trying to keep his government alive for the third time in four months.

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Mark Carney didn’t use diplomatic language. He didn’t hedge. “We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition,“ he said. “A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile and less sustainable.“ The audience - heads of state, CEOs, central bankers, the people who had spent their careers building and benefiting from the interconnected global economy - did not gasp. They applauded. A standing ovation. For the man who had just told them their world was dead.

Every wall going up in the world right now — Greenland, European rearmament, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz — was made inevitable by the same pressure. This book maps that pattern.

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